Word: mistakenness
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...patron of supply-side economics. He is on the wall in oils, along with Lincoln and Eisenhower. When Coolidge appeared on the morning of Ronald Reagan's Inauguration, some of the staff members were startled. "There's been an error," suggested one aide, believing a workman had mistaken the Vermonter for Jefferson or maybe McKinley. No, the report came back, the President wants Coolidge, the cutter of taxes and debt, the man who squandered few words and less money...
...memory as the spirit that animated them flashes in Fonda's eyes. Without raising his voice he gives a bravura performance as he moves from depressed withdrawal to momentary rages, from the struggle to express affection to the struggle not to express it, lest it be mistaken for weakness...
This was not the first time the steam has built up to such an extent that it comes out of the "ears under the helmet of the Castle tower," Lampoon members said. But no one has ever mistaken this "occasional" happening for a fire, they added...
...Buckley, a former sheriff of Middlesex County, said that he has "never heard of a good reason for owning a handgun." He said arguments against gun control were based on mistaken feelings of "machismo" found in owning a gun. "You're taking away their maleness," he said in reference to gun owners who oppose gun control, adding "they will do anything to stop this." Buckley called the NRA "a very effective lobby" that has run contrary to public opinion in favor of gun control, as demonstrates in polls showing that over 70 per cent of citizens advocate some form...
This conceptual schizophrenia emerges in Alex Brooks' set design: neither minimalist, nor realist, but rather an uneasy mixture of the two. Brooks seems to have mistaken epic literalness, which arises from social connotation, with the notion of approximating reality. While the set should be merely suggested, minimal and stripped of reality, the props must be realistic and literal. This idea, inherent to the epic, becomes curiously reversed in Brooks' design. The sets strive for realistic representation, as in Newgate prison. Props, on the other hand, crowd the production, devoid of social significance. What, for example, is the purpose...