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Example sentences for: misunderstand

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The Weekly Standar d's J. Bottum rebuts that Cold Mountain 's highbrow critics misunderstand its middlebrow virtues.
That is to fundamentally misunderstand the nature of the educated elite, of which Lemann seems to be a paragon.
The Wall Street Journal reports that the National Federation of the Blind is demanding that Disney pull the plug on its planned Christmas release of a Mr. Magoo movie (starring Leslie Nielsen), saying that bringing Magoo back implies that "it's funny to watch an ill-tempered and incompetent blind man stumble into things and misunderstand his surroundings."
Do not misunderstand.
Of course, it is always possible that an unbalanced individual will misunderstand something in a crazy way, as John Hinckley did with Taxi Driver . But you can't protect yourself against the criminally insane by cutting off their sources of possible inspiration, which are limitless.