Word: misinterprets
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...latter type. Its aim is to inculcate the conviction that the human body, devoid of clothes, is an obscenity. Photographs of models in postures whose suggestiveness is made possible only by their awkwardness are varied with reproductions of famed paintings that the vulgar can be relied upon to misinterpret. Interspersed are brief sketches in prose under such engaging captions as One Night in a Harem, To the Pure All Things Are Pure...
...Farge's constructive suggestion of a cultural course, Mr. Murdock seems to feel a slight resentment--"The great point is not whether this article makes a good case or not, but that it should be written at all". Perhaps I misinterpret 'this remark--certainly it sounds rather extraordinary to me. Then he puts quotations around the word "Cultural". I trust I am wrong in thinking that they indicate a peculiar tone of voice...
...must be careful, however", he continued, "not to misinterpret its lessons. We have been allotted a treaty navy. We must expect further conferences in the future. If we desire to wield the influence in future conferences that we did in the past one, we must maintain adequately our treaty navy. Though the Conference has, I am confident, aided the course of peace, I should be either a fool or a knave if I should say there will be no more wars...
...reads editorials, both of which are rare commodities. Unless these articles are plainly labeled "Private" and fenced in a special column with special type, the general reader will appropriate their opinions for his own, without realizing their lack of sound authority. There are always erratically-minded men who will misinterpret any great movement; if we take their distorted notions for the fact, the result is bound to be unfortunate...
...coming from the West and entering Harvard without having attended a preparatory school in the East comes into an entirely different atmosphere and entirely different surroundings from those which he is used to. He is apt to misinterpret the conservatism which he finds here as a rank lack of interest. This is more or less of a disadvantage to Western men, but a disadvantage entirely due to a misunderstanding. The advantages are many. Besides the well-recognized advantages which are open to everyone, the Westerner has the advantage of being in a new and different situation, so he very naturally...