Misalliance

In the country of Wild Oats, wit and humor are held in sufficient estimation to win you forgiveness for what fools call a misalliance, and what I call a princely marriage. ❋ Edouard Laboulaye (1847)

The persistent jittering and rolling of the frame line was the result of the misalliance between positive and negative stocks. ❋ Scott Eyman (2010)

Despite the sexual misalliance indicated by the letter, Constance kept it for the rest of her life, along with some other letters and notes from Cecil in an envelope on which she wrote: ❋ Scott Eyman (2010)

This wild series of overheated tableaux indicates the extent of the misalliance between Cecil and Agnes. ❋ Scott Eyman (2010)

Sweet left the distinct impression that the entire stint at Lasky was a misalliance. ❋ Scott Eyman (2010)

The marriage was meant to make up for the marital misalliance of her mother, Ludovica, the daughter of Ludwig I of Bavaria. ❋ Elizabeth Kerri Mahon (2009)

She was born of the misalliance between George Gordon Byron, the rock and roll poet of the regency and Annabella Milbanke, the 'princess of parallelograms,' on December 10, 1815. ❋ Elizabeth Kerri Mahon (2009)

The count, understanding it as an allusion to a misalliance of one of his ancestors with the daughter of a blacksmith, is thrown into ❋ Unknown (2008)

It's sad, of course, that it takes the misalliance of innocent privileged white kids to be lined up against a shaky african american complainant to make this case so appealing to the general public. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Ever-present, hard to diagnose and equally hard to fight -- a product of misalliance and miscalculation, equal parts foreign and home-grown -- Pakistan's anxious security problems could easily dominate the new government's agenda. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But they are distant relations, whereas these Hollands—tradesmen, I daresay, and some bird-witted Armitage girl made a ghastly misalliance. ❋ Rose Melikan (2008)

Like Strether, Swann confuses aesthetic pleasure with a judgment of value, and he pays for the error with a ruinous misalliance in which deceit will play a part. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Manchester was the first misalliance which the Florac family had made for long long years. ❋ Unknown (2006)

If she had a good fortune and kept a good cook, people would even go and dine with her in spite of the misalliance, and actually treat Mr. Piozzi with civility. ❋ Unknown (2006)

She looked so beautiful that I doubted whether she was pure Timson; surely she was the result of some more exotic misalliance, a moment of infidelity, perhaps, by her mother. ❋ Mortimer, John (2006)

Of course she knew that such a marriage would be a dreadful misalliance for young Tudor; of course she knew that all his friends would be heart-broken when they heard of it. ❋ Unknown (2004)

There came up indeed in the course of the conversation one of those unexpected alliances, which, M. de Guermantes informed me, was a misalliance, but not without charm, for, uniting under the July Monarchy the Duc de Guermantes and the Duc de Fezensac with the two irresistible daughters of an eminent navigator, it gave the two Duchesses the exciting novelty of a grace exotically middle-class, ❋ Unknown (2003)