Word: misunderstoodness
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...impressive, the pictures that accompanied your cover story contradicted the article's message that humans are most often inadvertent victims rather than targeted prey. In three photos, the shark appears as the aggressive killer the fearful public has always imagined. You should have chosen photographs that better depicted the misunderstood fish you wrote about. In this case, the pictures negated your thousand words. ADAM WYSE Delaware, Ohio...
...enough talking about the “Frying Pan Girls” and “Can-I-Have-a-Roll Boy.” (It takes a special student to acquire one of our nicknames, or at least an act of exquisite stupidity.) We must be the more misunderstood of the two groups, the students never suspecting that we are intelligent human beings who might know a thing or two about music. All they hear coming out of the kitchen is “Come Sail Away,” which never fails to be on at dinner time...
...CLINTON (icily): I think you have misunderstood. I am thinking along the lines of Kay Graham's book - frank, yet dignified...
...this way. Having grown up in the era of segregation, I know I can survive the racial profiling of a cabby. What makes me most nervous is the anxiety that I have wrongly estimated the degree of racism in American life. I am a conservative. But conservatism is a misunderstood identity in blacks that would be much easier to carry in a world where New York City cab drivers stopped for black fares, even after dark...
...generally agreed by those close to the band that a lot of what U2 did during the later 1990s was misunderstood. The band's cynicism was overblown by reviewers and audiences, they say, who may have missed the fact that U2 was tackling the same issues they had dealt with for years. They just approached the questions from a new angle...