How To Use Misconceive In A Sentence
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This second-hand or transcribed social history isn't "parodic," just misconceived, and testimony (if any is needed) to the increasing inability to discern what our disciplinary base actually is in "literary-and-cultural studies," and why it matters that we cannot and should not be simply pale echoes of better-equipped social historians like Colley herself.
Presentism and the Archives
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After his cult hit Withnail & I, writer-director Bruce Robinson teamed up again with Richard E Grant for this misconceived satire about an advertising whizz-kid who develops an alter-ego in the form of a talking boil on his shoulder.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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In my judgment an attempt to formulate a duty of care in this way is wholly misconceived.
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The misconceived refusal to give Charlie Adam a penalty and send off Philippe Senderos on the hour, a spoilsport decision to disallow a goal for Luis Suárez midway through the second half and a red card for the young midfielder Jay Spearing a few minutes later prefaced a crescendo of Fulham attacking which ended with a dreadful Pepe Reina error and a decisive tap-in for Clint Dempsey.
Andy Carroll's ineffectiveness adds to Liverpool frustration at Fulham | Richard Williams
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Once we put everything that exists into these two categories, we now have two types of ignoranceone that mistakenly perceives persons to inherently exist and another that misconceives other phenomena to inherently exist.
Becoming Enlightened
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And to make the defense of the West hinge upon German rearmament is to misconceive the dimensions of the problem.
Britain Versus EuropeThe Schuman Plan and German Revival
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The plan to build the road through the forest is wholly misconceived.
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The misconceived pre-publicity for the series blew the gaff on this one, so unlike the main supporting characters, we knew all along that she wasn't out of her mind, just out of her body.
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But the showcase project seemed misconceived from the start, too powerful for North Korea's electrical system, too expensive to be economical.
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The plan to build the road through the forest is wholly misconceived.
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The result was a campaign misconceived at the outset and badly coordinated not only between civilian and military but between the various levels of command.
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Indeed, it often appears to the Asians that the US and Europe are generally only solicitous of their views and insights, when it's time to cough up more money for another misconceived bailout.
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What a terrible, ugly, misconceived idea.
Times, Sunday Times
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All in all, it looks like a misconceived vanity project.
Times, Sunday Times
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Time and again, history has shown that waging battles to usher in peace have been misconceived notions, for such attempts have only succeeded in breeding hatred and mistrust in society.
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In our submission, that misconceives the characterisation of the loss.
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If the objectives are misplaced, the plan misconceived, the resources unavailable or poorly mobilized, then the strategy will fail and this will be the strategist's responsibility.
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In addition, in one important respect the president has misconceived the relation between the promotion of democracy and America's national security interests.
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The plan to build the road through the forest is wholly misconceived.
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This argument misconceives the nature of the plaintiffs
The Volokh Conspiracy » A Rare Circuit Case Allowing a “Rational Basis” Challenge To Go Forward:
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Statistics show that domestic violence in the borough has significantly increased and it is misconceived by many that victims of this type of crime are from poor families.
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His arguments are totally misconceived.
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But we submit that the traditional test of corroboration provides a practical guide to the issue and that the Court of Criminal Appeal wholly misconceived that concept.
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This supposed uniting principle misconceives the argument for gay marriage, which, as I have outlined it, is not necessarily based solely on augmenting the private happiness of two adults.
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In short, the idea that Durban will result in real action being put off misconceives what we have just agreed to and the full-out effort required in the here and now.
Todd D. Stern: Durban: An Important Step Forward in Combating Global Climate Change
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I do not think that I should burden the Federal Court with matters if I have a clear view that proceedings are misconceived, but, ordinarily, the matter should go down.
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In this light, we can see how each of the available starting points for spiritual theology is misconceived if viewed as a natural human capacity, but becomes viable as a topic of pneumatology.
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The Chief Justice on Wednesday said the judges could be divided into three groups, but all held that the claim as formulated by the men demanding their rights under the South African constitution was misconceived.
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There are few scholars to whom the term suggests a process by which an Easterner might utterly misconceive the West and its citizens, much less do them an injustice.
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However, I would suggest you have some misconceived conceptions about the gentility of World War II, or certainly its portrayal to the public.
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It prompts some of the best acting in a misconceived show that too often lacks conviction and clarity.
Times, Sunday Times
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Police personnel deviating from service ethics in the course of enforcing law and justice is a result of misconceived notions of professional excellence and extraneous pressure.
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This is because the Tribe consultants have misconceived their brief, as we predicted in an earlier letter, and have picked on The Green as a convenient piece of open land.
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Buckley LJ was even more emphatic, saying that the tenant's argument that the right to future rent which had been transferred was a chose in action was ‘wholly misconceived’ and that the mortgagees were not assignees of the rent.
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At least for the moment, the Conservative government has wrecked its popularity by pursuing misconceived projects such as the poll tax.
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On the contrary, liberals and other leftists have constantly misconceived the issue.
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All in all, it looks like a misconceived vanity project.
Times, Sunday Times
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The housing needs of our inner cities have been misconceived from the start.
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(Thus the frequent enough criticism that Pynchon's characters are "cartoonish" is completely misconceived.)
February 2010
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You may regard some decisions as misconceived and wrong-headed, but we must have an authoritative structure to preserve the rule of law.
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The Guardian's art critic Adrian Searle described Kelley's 2004 Tate Liverpool show, in which he placed his work alongside controversial work by artists including Sarah Lucas and the Chapmans, as "fascinating, lubricious, frightening and appalling … an inventory of good art and bad; the creepy, the weird, the stupid, the unpleasant, the misconceived and the plain nasty".
Mike Kelley, the US artist acclaimed for his unsettling installations, dies at 57
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A catalogue of misconceived ideas has preceded our descent into chaos.
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Consequently, the move being taken by the Ministry of Water and Environment to degazette 15 urban forests is misconceived and short-sighted.
AllAfrica News: Latest
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It would be many years before I realized how misconceived an idea that was.
FRIENDS FOR LIFE
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While Canada's nationalist impulse is in some ways understandable or even admirable, its articulation as a need for protection is misconceived.
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The Court of Appeal rejected as misconceived the argument that proceedings before the Tribunal are effectively criminal proceedings in which the applicant is to be presumed innocent until proved guilty.
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This misconceives the incentives and pressures operating on the blue dogs, and the tools available to their managers.
"The political ground is already shifting under Big Labor's card-check initiative."
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The five sided star, known as a pentagram, is one of the most powerful yet misconceived symbolic representations of our modern times, although the shape has been around for thousands of years.
Four Star | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
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It seems to us, with respect, that it completely misconceives the role of the appellate court.
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He was confident the court would'in due course find that his claims are baseless and completely misconceived'.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Crown's argument that international crimes were not crimes under English law was misconceived, he added.
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Is it now the case that in the absence of stockpiles of weapons, ready to deploy, the threat was misconceived and therefore the war was unjustified?
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Her only dignified course of action would be to say that on further consideration the entire project is misconceived, and resign.
Times, Sunday Times
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The defendant misconceives the plaintiffs' position.
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Increasingly now, these are from misconceived notions of development: oil drilling, port construction, tourism projects, defence establishments.
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Whichever way you look at it, the scheme was misconceived, miscalculated and entirely missed the mark.
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You may regard some decisions as misconceived and wrong-headed, but we must have an authoritative structure to preserve the rule of law.
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It prompts some of the best acting in a misconceived show that too often lacks conviction and clarity.
Times, Sunday Times
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Not to mention that the letter's kicker, ‘We hope that this misleading article does not cost a child his life,’ completely misconceives the public policy question.
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The project is misconceived as it is purely tactical.
Times, Sunday Times
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It follows that she has misconceived the scope of section 116 of the Act.
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And certain important roles have either been badly miscast or misconceived.
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The housing needs of our inner cities have been misconceived from the start.
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The misconceived refusal to give Charlie Adam a penalty and send off Philippe Senderos on the hour, a spoilsport decision to disallow a goal for Luis Suárez midway through the second half and a red card for the young midfielder Jay Spearing a few minutes later prefaced a crescendo of Fulham attacking which ended with a dreadful Pepe Reina error and a decisive tap-in for Clint Dempsey.
Andy Carroll's ineffectiveness adds to Liverpool frustration at Fulham | Richard Williams
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In our view this submission is entirely misconceived and misunderstands the effect of these cases.
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Genuine reform of the universities has proceeded perhaps more effectively because the propaganda has so totally misconceived the changes taking place.
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The first of these criticisms misconceives the nature of the international legal system.
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The very idea of a war on terror was profoundly misconceived from the start.
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If environmentalist opposition groups fail to understand that, and their misconceived contrariety prevails to the point where this town loses the chance for this university campus, their credibility will suffer a mortal blow.
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The second concern, over the inflationary threat from a less productive economy, is better founded but equally misconceived.
Times, Sunday Times
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However, to this challenge it might be replied that it misconceives how (P3) is to be interpreted: (P3), it may be said, is not intended to apply to properties understood as universals, but only to so-called particularised properties (otherwise variously known as property instances, individual accidents, tropes, or modes).
Ontological Dependence
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The next point is that it really misconceives the nature of the compensation magistrate's appellate jurisdiction.
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This misconceives the purpose of letting the states experiment.
Matthew Yglesias » Leave Health Care to the States?
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We think this proposal entirely misconceives the legal situation, the State Departments top lawyer wrote in a memo to Katzenbach.
The Attack on the Liberty
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Bryan Caplan completely misconceives the relationship between the law of marginal utility, time preference, the intertemporal allocation of resources and the interest rate.
The Myth of Time Preference, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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I was unable to respond to these campaigns and express my support at the time because I felt that although these campaigns were well-intended, they were misconceived and misguided.
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Yet the word fear is often misconceived for excitement, stress or nervousness - common emotions in sport that only you can translate.
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The whole thing was misconceived from start to finish - if it has a finish.
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The housing needs of our inner cities have been misconceived from the start.
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In our view this submission is entirely misconceived and misunderstands the effect of these cases.
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In the circumstances the proceedings are wholly misconceived.
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He was confident the court would'in due course find that his claims are baseless and completely misconceived'.
Times, Sunday Times
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The application and the application for interim relief are wholly misconceived.
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It would be many years before I realized how misconceived an idea that was.
FRIENDS FOR LIFE
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Those of us who argued from the start that the single currency was misconceived, and that membership would be a disaster, were dismissed by the Prime Minister as xenophobes who were living in the past.
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The government's plan for the artificial scenery spots is wholly misconceived.
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The project is misconceived as it is purely tactical.
Times, Sunday Times
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What a terrible, ugly, misconceived idea.
Times, Sunday Times
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Executives sometimes find that, on close inspection, the complaints made against them are misconceived.
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I believe this image is entirely misconceived.
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*** And West Bank settlements are among the most profoundly mis-reported (naively and more mendaciously) and misconceived issues within the overall Israel/Arab Muslim set of issues in the Middle East and on the planet in general, in terms of strategic and other practicalities (e.g., defensible borders), in terms of international law, and in terms of history in general, both prior to and since 1948.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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Stuck in a rut and earning a pittance in a hilariously misconceived Dublin production of Shakespeare's Richard III, the pair are rooted in the grim realities of a business based on illusions, and are at an all time low.
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But this criticism totally misconceives the meaning of the concept of price.
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Her only dignified course of action would be to say that on further consideration the entire project is misconceived, and resign.
Times, Sunday Times
