Word: mistakenness
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...confident, emotional and keenly attentive to the importance of politics as theater. Opinions vary along political lines. To her admirers she is bold and indefatigable. To her detractors, she can be over-bearing and righteous. She is sometimes compared not with Maggie Thatcher -- which would be too simple, and mistaken -- but with Ronald Reagan and Bobby Kennedy...
...need that extra education. What is a mere college diploma without a degree from Yale Law or Stanford Business School? Were we all under the mistaken impression that four years of Harvard would...
...mistaken if you think people are not troubled by the environment, by the conflict between industry and nature. Their concerns have caused 1,000 factories to be shut down. The result has been the loss of 10 billion rubles' worth of production. Just look at the Congress of the Russian Federation, which is debating the question of sovereignty. Many speakers are defining sovereignty precisely in terms of how most efficiently to use the resources of the republic...
...racial climate had been so poisoned that last week virtually everybody, upon hearing sketchy reports that blacks had beaten three Vietnamese men they had mistaken for Koreans, concluded that another monstrous outbreak of bigoted violence had occurred. It turned out that a black youth had fractured the skull of one Vietnamese with a hammer, but in a fight that started after a 13- year-old girl tossed a bottle through an apartment window. Immediately after the fracas, police hung a sign on the Vietnamese victim's apartment building: REWARD. THIS IS A BIAS ASSAULT CRIME SCENE. Wrote Daily News columnist...
...already written about what it's like to be a woman sports writer. I've been accused of bringing about the "end of sports as we know it." I've been mistaken for the coach's wife. I've been thrown out of locker rooms. None of it has surprised...