I know every argument that will be made and it bores me to tears how they are such misconstructions of the truth. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I didn't read the offending comments, but the complaints seem to be misconstructions of the US constitution. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I doubt we ever think outside the square of regent reason, would be treason if we offered views one might conclude hermaphroditic lies or misconstructions of the truth so as to say we could accuse our masters of collusion. ❋ Ivan Donn Carswell (2008)
The sheer volume of these spurious seedlings shed serious shadows that threaten to smother our lights, and, should some slight semblance of accuracy of attribution fall, like a rarified celestial body through the network of his fabrications into the dark crater of one of Cliff's phrases, it is quickly encrusted with crafted misconstructions. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Finally there are the misconstructions caused by the organismic metaphor. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Richard — what shall I say? as well as you do — that such misconstructions are foreign to your nature. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Introducing such misconstructions into biology classrooms can serve no legitimate educational purpose; they can only mislead—and send a message to children that evolution is some sort of atheistic conspiracy to which they need not pay any serious attention. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Before I proceed farther, I shall beg leave to obviate some misconstructions into which the zeal of some few readers may lead them; for I would not willingly give offence to any, especially to men who are warm in the cause of virtue or religion. ❋ Unknown (2004)
So far did the treacherous accomplice of Fathom presume upon these misconstructions, that she at length divested her tongue of all restraint, and behaved in such a manner, that the young lady, confounded and incensed at her indecency and impudence, rebuked her with great severity, and commanded her to reform her discourse, on pain of being dismissed with disgrace from her service. ❋ Unknown (2004)
I would be tempted to ascribe such misconstructions to illiteracy did they not come from so well-used a pen as Mr. Craft's; as it is, I must put them down to wilfulness. ❋ Griffiths, Paul (1978)
This might account for his ill odor in a capital where misconstructions and jealous evil-speaking have too often been the lot of the simplest, the most learned, and the least self-asserting of artists. ❋ Various (N/A)
Unwilling to encroach too much on your valuable pages, I will leave, for the subject of my next letter, the inconceivable misconstructions and errors into which the ignorance of this language has led European travellers in Africa, of which I shall state some examples in a recent publication respecting Africa. ❋ Abd Salam Shabeeny (N/A)
I mention these misconstructions, not with a view to give them an answer, for they deserve none; but as specimens of the manner and spirit, in which some have thought fit to conduct their opposition to the proposed government. ❋ American Anti-Slavery Society (N/A)
Both the nobility and gentry of this country stand upon a basis so entirely peculiar, that, were it for that cause only, we could not greatly wonder at the perverse misconstructions upon these institutions so prevalent abroad. ❋ Various (N/A)
If a man has become sore by working against the apathy, the misconceptions, the misconstructions, and the prejudices of the world, so that he feels the galling burden of the collar in all his actions, let him change his style of labor until the ulcer heal. ❋ Timothy Titcomb (N/A)
In the preceding discourse we endeavored to show that the idea of being willing to be damned for the glory of God is not found in the text -- that the sentiment is erroneous and absurd -- then adduced the constructions which have been put on the text by sundry expositors, and offered reasons which oblige us to reject them as misconstructions. ❋ Andrew Lee (N/A)
They prefer to remain, as it were, incognito; and, pried; into as the seclusion of the new-comers is by all the curious, this reticence soon causes misconstructions and scandals. ❋ Various (N/A)
