Word: mistakenness
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...pauses her game and fixes me with an intense stare. I feel a frisson of excitement but look away first."Dog farts! This guy's shifty. He's spoken for three minutes without saying a thing. Keep an eye on him." I gulp, she has obviously mistaken my occasional blinking (caused, I protest, by tiredness) for a sign of guilt...
...Opponents of the bill reject that argument, claiming there are already criminal laws on the books in Florida prohibiting fraudulent absentee voting, carrying with them a maximum sentence of five years in prison. "When you do your absentee, if I'm not mistaken, they have to certify on that particular absentee ballot that they are who they say they are," says Dianne Wheatley-Giliotti, president of the League of Women Voters of Florida, which is not formally involved with the suit. "To fraudulently swear you are in violation of the law - if someone willingly does this, they are subject...
...express. Perhaps you believed he'd been knighted like Sir Paul. Maybe you assumed he'd retired. In fact, almost everything you think you know about Ringo is wrong, except that he's endearing. Lean and boisterous in tight pants, T shirt, sneakers and funky sunglasses, he could be mistaken for a 50-something in the first throes of an affair with a younger woman. It is true that Ringo is enraptured by a younger woman, but he's not trying to roll back the years to please his lady. His relationship with his 60-year-old wife, a former...
...Town halls entail risk, of course, especially if you're addressing a motley crew that's a long way from the scrubbed and polite Rotarians. The candidate could get ambushed by an activist, a conspiracy theorist, someone who just wants to argue or even someone who has mistaken the open forum for group therapy. At a town hall focused on global climate change in Portsmouth, McCain called on a severely disabled man who identified himself as Greg. He brought one of McCain's books to sign, but his rambling preamble took a dramatic turn: He asked McCain if he should...
...China's Ring Cycle The Kunqu opera The Peony Pavilion is one of the greatest masterpieces of all time [Nov. 5]. What a curiously mistaken notion that "witnesses to such a grandiose relic should worry less about falling asleep and more about slipping into a coma." I was lucky enough to see Chen Shi-Zheng's full 19-hour production and Pai Hsien-Yung's nine-hour production of the opera. Each time, when the performance ended, I wanted it to start all over again. Such is the power, beauty and fascination of Kunqu opera, even to a Westerner...