Word: misinterpretation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Under pressure from conservative opponents to take a tougher stand on the ethnic Russian question, Boris Yeltsin bluntly warned the Estonians not to misinterpret "Russia's goodwill." Moscow, he pointed out, had "ways of reminding them" of geopolitical realities. The Kremlin has already put the withdrawal of former Soviet forces from Estonia on hold to protest local mistreatment of Russians...
...report, sent to Aspin on June 22, was in response to a series of questions raised by the principal director of Russian, Eurasian and East European affairs at the Defense Department. The inspector general's report described a few instances in which both Allison and Blackwill seemed to either misinterpret regulations or refer to conversations that others did not remember...
...search of employment; British people tour the empire; Africans travel in the holds of slave ships to be deposited in West Indian plantations. Their displacement makes them uneasy storytellers and unreliable narrators, but it also heightens their awareness of their surroundings. They pay close attention, and even when they misinterpret what they see, their observations have a nervous, vibrant edge...
...could be applied to the novel, but would not do justice to Begley's imagination and authority as a writer. Ben's feelings about his escape from the Holocaust and his transformation into an affluent non-Jewish Jew in America are complex and ironic. He is too intelligent to misinterpret his problem but too emotionally bottled up to solve it. Begley shares some of his resume with Ben, but he has not written an autobiography. The Man Who Was Late is a what-if novel -- specifically, What if the author could not have sufficiently distanced himself from the past...
...didn't misinterpret his wife at all. That's the way she was. Garrison's investigation threatened her family life. They had five kids, and he was not home. We didn't practice politically correct feminism to try to make her into something she was not. What we did -- you could fault me for it -- was put a woman D.A. into his staff. He did not have a woman...