Word: mistakenness
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...protested "the unhappy news," Franklin cheerfully apologized for "neglecting a point of propriety," and then subtly sank the needle: "The English, I just now learn, flatter themselves they have already divided us. I hope this little misunderstanding will therefore be kept secret, and that they will find themselves totally mistaken...
...dead, he has seduced her winsome, scheming stepdaughter (Samantha Eggar), first in line for the family fortune. Ingrid appears incognito, hair darkened, the scars of her concentration-camp ordeal erased by surgery, and is not recognized at first because that would spoil the plot. She falls into a mistaken-identity hoax engineered by Samantha, soon finds herself impersonating a woman who is hired to impersonate her real self...
...Fred M. Leventhal is mistaken in his understanding of the SDS petition on the Rhodesian crisis: so far the SDS as an organization has NO policy on the crisis, except in its general opposition to undemocratic, oppressive governments. Neither the general membership nor the executive committee has made any decision, and until that time the SDS will continue to have no specific stand...
...Women had changed, if ever so subtly. To bring the text up to date for the performance of the 44-girl cast-all played by Phoenician socialite amateurs -Playwright Luce had used her author's prerogative to pencil in changes. "Look, Schiaparelli!" became "Look, Balenciaga!" "No one has mistaken you for Mrs. Harrison Williams yet" was changed to "for Princess Radziwill"; "I wish I could make up my mind whether or not I like Shirley Temple" was updated to "whether I like the Beatles." Originally, when the cigarette girl asked...
Another important Tillich tenet is that such potent terms as God, Christ, Resurrection are symbols that should not be mistaken for the unknowable things for which they stand-a distinction that sometimes led him into such odd locutions as "the God above God." On this score, he was the despair of the orthodox, who always wanted to know whether he thought that the tomb was really empty on that first Easter morning. When Pope Pius XII defined the doctrine of the Virgin Mary's bodily assumption into Heaven, one eminent Jesuit friend of Tillich's was looking forward...