Word: mistakenness
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...grandson Sir Richard Burbidge, Bt., who was born there and grew up to be the present managing director. Several hours a day, Sir Richard leaves his office and patrols his domain, correctly clad in striped trousers and short coat, and wearing a bowler hat to keep from being mistaken for a floorwalker...
When first published, the book was mistaken by some for an ironic smirk at the church. A weary smile, at least, is there; Martin du Gard is, personally, an avowed atheist. But there is also a bored grin at the starry-eyed rationalism and humanism of the pre-carriage Barois. To Author Martin du Gard, there are no sure answers to anything, either in religion or irreligion. But most of the sting is taken out of his irony by the simple compassion for human beings that salves every page in the book...
...prove to its own people that the U.S. planned an attack on Russia, and to tell Western Europeans that the U.S. wanted them to fight the ground war if it came. If Cannon thought he was stating the case for the Air Force over their naval competitors, he was mistaken. The Air Force's Chief of Staff Hoyt Vandenberg was indeed confident that his airmen could reach almost anywhere with their intercontinental B-36 bombers, starting from U.S. bases. But no responsible airman claimed that the Air Force could win a war without the naval ships and planes...
...bona fide barbed-wire thorns and chandelier pendants for tears.) But the abstractions seemed little better: Theodore Roszac's spiny steel Recollection of the Southwest looked no more handsome than a broken bedspring, and Leo Amino's colored plastic Remembrance of Things Past might have been mistaken for a highly original gumdrop display. Such eccentric exhibits made the few conservative examples of academic excellence (including a pair of female nudes by Raymond Puccinelli and Oldtimer William Zorach, both entitled Invocation) look even, finer than they really were...
...Twain sequence, however, is butchered almost beyond belief. The climactic total eclipse scene is so speeded up that the whole affair could easily be mistaken for a small but dark cloud passing in front of the sun. Hollywood, it seems, is so dreadfully afraid of boring its customers that it baffles them instead...