Word: misunderstoodness
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...footsteps in settings from politics and business to sports and the arts to Hollywood and the theater that we can describe it as ?the new nepotism?...In this timely work, the first book ever written about nepotism, Adam Bellow brings new dignity and broad-ranging interdisciplinary scholarship to this misunderstood and stigmatized practice...Bellow argues that nepotism comes down to the bonds between children and parents, the transmission of family legacies, the cycle of generosity and gratitude that knits our whole society together. ?In Praise of Nepotism? is a book that will ruffle feathers, create controversy, and open and change...
...Islam, these students declare, is misunderstood. Young to this country and blemished by the publicity of repressive theocratic regimes abroad, few people understand its message of peace. As Tawfiq Ali said, Islam does not want innocent people to die. Those terrorists involved gave up the peace of Islam, something that is sinful to our faith...
...matter how much we put it out there Sheila explained, Islam remains misunderstood. [People] see Islam as this black fog that no one can understand, and it seems to me that Americans are falling into the trap that the terrorists want us to fall into Sheila said. They wanted to polarize the issue into Islam vs. America or even foreigners vs. America, they want to see us fighting each other, and our country divided...
Pity the poor, misunderstood TV male. O.K., don't. (But stop laughing so loud! It stings!) Consider this, however: while TV's menfolk hardly lack for meaty roles or paychecks, when it comes to self-reflection they almost bump into a glass ceiling. Feminism gave us decades of women who pondered what it means to be female--Mary Richards, Ally McBeal, Carrie Bradshaw. But a lack of curiosity about what being a man means is practically TV's definition of masculinity...
...Levy claims Condit denied to her that he had had an affair with her daughter? She must have "misunderstood the conversation," he told Connie Chung last Thursday. The police say he bobbed and weaved through the first two interrogations? "I'm puzzled by why the police chief would say that," he replied. A flight attendant claims he wanted her to lie about their affair on a false affidavit? "I'm puzzled by people who take advantage of tragedy." Chandra's aunt says he was obsessive about secrecy? "I don't know why the aunt would say that...