Word: mistakenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ongoing comedy of errors and mistaken identities results in stylized mayhem and confusion in the palace. Clever cross-gender casting by director Billy Hulkower adds an uproarious touch, furnishing an endless supply of thoroughly silly, but funny, gags...
...when a Wigglesworth resident said he had not even been informed of the meeting at which the vote was held, and Fine admitted to having been responsible for door-dropping in the student's dorm. Decaro concluded that, "either one of you is lying or one of you is mistaken." When I talked to Boyle, she was more convinced. "I'm sure they did it; I can't prove it, but I wouldn't put that past them," she said...
Anyone who thinks that habitual use of the Clintonic mood poses only distant and highly abstract dangers is sorely mistaken. Al Gore '69 is, of course, a robot, and as such relies on traditional logic circuits...
Lovers often claim that they feel as if they are being swept away. They're not mistaken; they are literally flooded by chemicals, research suggests. A meeting of eyes, a touch of hands or a whiff of scent sets off a flood that starts in the brain and races along the nerves and through the blood. The results are familiar: flushed skin, sweaty palms, heavy breathing. If love looks suspiciously like stress, the reason is simple: the chemical pathways are identical...
...fear, feelings that have been considerably researched in the field and the lab, can be quantified through measurements: pulse and breathing rates, muscle contractions, a whole spider web of involuntary responses. Love does not register as definitively on the instruments; it leaves a blurred fingerprint that could be mistaken for anything from indigestion to a manic attack. Anger and fear have direct roles -- fighting or running -- in the survival of the species. Since it is possible (a cynic would say commonplace) for humans to mate and reproduce without ) love, all the attendant sighing and swooning and sonnet writing have struck...