Word: misunderstoodness
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...After a trip to Asia, he came back and bragged that Mongolians in yurts were devotees of his Republican revolution. At the center of the cosmological charts he doodled was, no surprise, himself. In his books he was a major historical figure, a planetary visionary, often misunderstood. In former Congresswoman Susan Molinari's book he came off as a blubbering though entertaining megalomaniac. At one point, she recalls, he revealed how heavily he bore his mantle: "I get up every morning and say to myself, 'This is the day I shall...
Both books chronicle how disturbingly misunderstood the malady has been. Sufferers have traditionally been met with disgust by doctors, who find their self-injuring offensive. Therapists are often unwelcoming too, mistakenly labeling such people suicidal or dismissing them as "borderline," a catchall category for manipulative, difficult patients with intractable disorders. In reality, the authors say, cutters are people frozen in trauma. More than half of self-injurers are victims of sexual abuse, and most report emotionally abusive or neglected childhoods, the strains of which send them into an emotional grave. "To me, it wasn't the self-injury that...
...Glee Club stands apart from many of Harvard's singing groups because of its size, its long history and the fact that it is all-male. But the group faces something of a paradox: while many consider its musical quality better than ever, some members say its spirit is misunderstood on campus...
Unlike Glee Clubs at many other colleges,including Princeton and Yale, the Harvard GleeClub has remained all-male throughout its history.While that choice reflects the dramatic sound thatmale choruses can produce, group members say thedecision is often misunderstood...
...Manila city council could take no more. In a 23-to-3 vote, they agreed to ban all movies in which Danes appears. Philippine President Joseph Estrada said she "should not even be allowed to set foot" in the country. Danes issued a statement saying her comments were misunderstood, but the actress, who just began her freshman year at Yale, may want to consider some classes in diplomacy...