Misreading is a big part of reading, the way in which the level of attention you're paying can lead to some interesting residue. Votes: 4
Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds. Votes: 2
Los Angeles had no culture of its own, just a large collection of misreadings of the artistic histories of other, proper cities. Votes: 2
I think the Greek New Testament is the strongest and most successful misreading of a great prior text in the entire history of influence. Votes: 2
I think it's a misreading of Dostoevsky to think of him as a programmatic theist. He's actually much closer to someone like William James. He's actually a pragmatist. Votes: 2
Studios felt like Blu-ray was going to be the next panacea, and so they dumped the prices (of traditional DVDs) and devalued the product. That's a misreading of consumer behavior as well as a misreading of the economic environment. Votes: 2
Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution, of course, lays out the delegated, enumerated, and therefore limited powers of Congress. Only through a deliberate misreading of the general welfare and commerce clauses of the Constitution has the federal government been allowed to overreach its authority and extend its tendrils into every corner of civil society. Votes: 2
In a language as idiomatically stressed as English, opportunities for misreadings are bound to arise. By a mere backward movement of stress, a verb can become a noun, an act a thing. To refuse, to insist on saying no to what you believe is wrong, becomes at a stroke refuse, an insurmountable pile of garbage. Votes: 2
I have spent my life watching, not to see beyond the world, merely to see, great mystery, what is plainly before my eyes. I think the concept of transcendence is based on a misreading of creation. With all respect to heaven, the scene of the miracle is here, among us. The eternal as an idea is much less preposterous than time, and this very fact should seize our attention. Votes: 2
We misread the Fifth Amendment [of Constitution] and have been misreading it for the past three decades. Votes: 0
My feeling is that it's a misreading of history to say that, as the Reagan supporters do, that Reagan won the Cold War. Votes: 0
Kant argued that, where nature could be considered beautiful in her acts of destruction, human violence appeared instead as monstrous. However, a misreading of Kant in Romantic philosophy led to the idealization of the murderer as a sublime genius that has colored constructions of that criminal figure ever since.