"canon debate" has been "misconceived from the start," and second, that this misconceived debate symptomatically registers a "crisis in literary study". From Wordnik.com. [Professing Literature: John Guillory's Misreading of Paul de Man] Reference
The treasury said the application to review Manuel's decision was, in law, "misconceived". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
"That's why we have to close the door on this kind of misconceived action by meeting our obligations here in Washington.". From Wordnik.com. [President Obama wants to begin working on immigration reform this year] Reference
Okay, to start with, Pielke is a regular in the global warming/skeptic community, and has been caught with "misconceived" (to be polite) analysis attacking Global Warming. From Wordnik.com. [A. Siegel: New York Times Stands in Solidarity with Washington Post] Reference
Berry's claims are consistently struck out by tribunal chairmen as "misconceived" and. From Wordnik.com. [Top stories from Times Online] Reference
Monica Ali's novel Brick Lane - have been criticised as "misconceived" and "excluding". From Wordnik.com. [Latest news from the public and voluntary sectors, including health, children, local government and social care, plus SocietyGuardian jobs | guardian.co.uk] Reference
An official with the mining company called the lawsuit "misconceived" and "without merit.". From Wordnik.com. [CBC | Top Stories News] Reference
'misconceived' today spoke of their diminishing hopes of a 'good result' for the first. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Fresh outbreak of bird flu in West Bengal] Reference
Through many generations mankind utterly misconceived it. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Progress] Reference
What certainty there is in such misconceived appearances?. From Wordnik.com. [The 100th Ganden Tripa (Ganden Throneholder)] Reference
Perhaps today's anxieties will prove equally misconceived. From Wordnik.com. [A Darker Future For Us] Reference
How they are generally misconceived, the apostle declares, 2 Cor. vi. From Wordnik.com. [Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost] Reference
The problem is that Carell's character of Barry is terribly misconceived. From Wordnik.com. [A 'Dinner' Invitation You Can Safely Decline] Reference
If so, it proved that few things could be tried that are more misconceived. From Wordnik.com. [Larisa Alexandrovna: Heads Up... Incoming Propaganda on Nukes...] Reference
"How much I have misunderstood you, and how much you have misconceived your own heart.". From Wordnik.com. [Eveline Mandeville The Horse Thief Rival] Reference
He had not been long in the town when he found that he had wholly misconceived its spirit. From Wordnik.com. [Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 1, January 1886] Reference
So far as in him lies, he does not intend that the case shall be so misconceived any longer. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862] Reference
The place of history in the heroic poems belonging to an heroic age is sometimes misconceived. From Wordnik.com. [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference
We have long viewed the principles underlying Europe's monetary union as profoundly misconceived. From Wordnik.com. [Deficit Terrorism Could Kill the Euro] Reference
Reid totally misconceived the nature of scepticism and idealism in their bearings on this problem. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
He fully assented to all I said in theory, but thought I misconceived what they were actually doing. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman] Reference
What happened on the list shows that this statement was at best misconceived and at worst disingenuous. From Wordnik.com. [The grave of academe] Reference
African-Americans and all other Americans free from the misconceived notion that different means deficient. From Wordnik.com. [National Press Club Address] Reference
As a face-saver the telephone call was misconceived, for a little note from Lucy was already in the post for me. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Stories]
But that is all fundamentally misconceived: the problem isn't a lack of polling or asking the wrong poll questions. From Wordnik.com. [Poll: Hillary At 57% in California Dem Primary] Reference
IMO, your reference to Apple wanting to protect the experience of the iPhone from random developers is misconceived. From Wordnik.com. [Who Is The Openest Of Them All?] Reference
I will confess to occasionally being annoyed as any of you at misconceived, inaccurate or tendentious criticism, and. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Today] Reference
This yearning is probably one of the good but misconceived appetites so injudiciously fed by the gossip of the daily press. From Wordnik.com. [How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell] Reference
The exceptions which have been taken to Salvini's performance all rest upon the notion that he has misconceived the character. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873] Reference
And yet, oddly enough, most of these distinctions have been misunderstood and the whole purport of the discussion misconceived. From Wordnik.com. [Ethics] Reference
VILES: "The New York Times" calls it a hopelessly misconceived exercise in celebrity self-worship has a special badness all its own. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 1, 2003] Reference
I hope so, because this misconceived project won't please Poe lovers and will leave Lou Reed fans wishing he'd gnawed a different bone. From Wordnik.com. [Reed Does Postmodern Poe; Quoth the Reviewer: 'Nevermore'] Reference
Consuello's words, "Why must we always impute a misconceived motive?" the question she had asked when they had discussed those who doubted. From Wordnik.com. [Spring Street A Story of Los Angeles] Reference
As regards range of vision, I apologise to MR. SHADBOLT for having misconceived his exact meaning, and say that I perfectly agree with him. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, No. 209, October 29 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.] Reference
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