Word: mistakenness
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...product of missed messages, delayed comprehensions. "The bastards are using real bullets," someone shouts, but the band keeps playing, the people keep marching, and afterwards everyone is sorry. With their anti-climatic attempts to assimilate still going on, the general strike is declared in far away Stockholm, and a mistaken historical clarity begins shaping the future...
Basking sharks have been reported in various books as having been mistaken for sea serpents on several occasions. The basking shark gets its name from its habit of staying on the surface of the water and lounging...
Unfortunately, this maneuver exposes the fish to the possibility of being hit and killed by passing ships. The shark, after rotting or being eaten as it washes in, may then be mistaken for a sea serpent. This may have been the case with Cecil, the once celebrated sea monster whose remains at last word were being unceremoniously fed to the New England Aquarium's garbage disposal...
...longtime room mates, are mistaken for - ah - consenting adults...
...remarkable first novel, the Canadian poet Margaret Atwood, 30, might appear to be safely in the Mansfield tradition, role-playing at Woman Writer -"capital W, capital W" as Mary McCarthy has bitterly remarked. On its deceptive surface. The Edible Woman can be mistaken for an airy little comedy about a girl who works for a consumer-research company while resolving to marry a humorless young lawyer, too Mr. Right to be true...