Word: misunderstoodness
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...Before the Virginia Tech shootings, Virginia could have (and should have) reported Seung-Hui Cho's psychological history to the feds, which would have made it harder for him to buy the two guns he used, but it didn't happen. "Virginia just misunderstood what the federal standard was," says Kristen Rand, legislative director at the Violence Policy Center, adding that both state and federal officials were responsible for the bureaucratic confusion over which information to report...
...were always short-staffed. We were always short-resourced. It took us over two months to get telephone communication—just think about that,” he said. “Whoever planned the post-war infrastructure completely misunderstood what the needs were...
...school and for pursuing his daughter Susan (Kat Dennings)—is palpable. Yelchin’s Charlie, in comparison, cannot pass muster; he possesses neither the charisma of Ferris Bueller nor the complexity of Holden Caulfield.Most irritating in the movie’s obvious homage to misunderstood delinquents is its recurring misuse of Cat Stevens’ “If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out,” guaranteed to enrage any “Harold and Maude” fan. Attempting to draw such a connection comes off as cheap and contrived...
...character, Stallone thinks, has always been misunderstood, even by Reagan. "I never saw Rambo as a Republican," Stallone says, though he liked the President too much to make an issue of it. "We watched Escape to Victory on folding chairs in the White House. It was really makeshift. You had a better sound system in your pickup truck." Rambo, he says, is underestimated emotionally and intellectually, just because he doesn't so much talk as use his voice like a car horn to warn or scare others. "In a film like Rambo, the more he speaks, the less interesting...
...over the past month revealed that the organization is engaged in intense soul-searching. The group remains committed to its role as a support system for Harvard’s Muslim students, while also grappling with how to heighten its activism to defend what members believe is a much misunderstood faith...