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  • We both nod, trying to say how we appreciate the moment, although it pains me to think that the Hickeys have discussed the possibility that I might have made misrepresentations when I sold them the store in a neat and ordinary sale-by-owner.†   (source)
  • I've showed the dangers if the knot is severed by ambition or avarice, by jealousy or misrepresentation.†   (source)
  • Why, Colaiaco asks, would have Plato misrepresented the arguments of Socrates, or hid key elements of the prosecution's case, when his actions in doing so could so easily be exposed?†   (source)
  • Instead, some have been outright opponents, refusing to understand the freedom movement and misrepresenting its leaders; all too many others have been more cautious than courageous and have remained silent behind the anesthetizing security of stained glass windows.†   (source)
  • She said the lack of cowboy hats and Wrangler jeans made it seem like it had misrepresented itself to the entire world.†   (source)
  • Reporters guilty of carelessness, or downright misrepresentation-though this was very rare-had been summoned to short and unpleasant sessions with Karellen's underlings and required to listen attentively to playbacks of what the Supervisor had really said.†   (source)
  • Perhaps they felt as helpless as I did, but they left New Orleans misrepresented to the world.†   (source)
  • My actions misrepresent me.†   (source)
  • George Norris was saddened by the near unanimity with which "my own people condemned me …. and asserted that I was misrepresenting my state."†   (source)
  • I won't have you misrepresenting yourself.†   (source)
  • Some misunderstood them, others willfully misrepresented them.†   (source)
  • This misrepresentation proves the inexcusable cunning used by opponents of the Constitution.†   (source)
  • Do not, therefore, my friend, misunderstand me and misrepresent me to posterity.†   (source)
  • But it also means that we will live for a longer time under the influence of the misrepresentations.†   (source)
  • The Republicans, French agents, and the "lying wretch" Bache intended to abuse and misrepresent the President until they forced him to resign, "and then they will reign triumphant, headed by the man of the people," Jefferson.†   (source)
  • When they write about the executive branch, opponents of the Constitution have showed their talent for misrepresentation.†   (source)
  • Using exaggeration and misrepresentation, opponents say these clauses will destroy both local governments and individual liberties.†   (source)
  • Example Proof of Misrepresentations   (source)
  • They have been misrepresented.†   (source)
  • Never in my lifetime has applause done me the good that did…… There was, in the hearts of the common people, a belief that underneath the deception and the misrepresentation, the political power and the influence, there was something artificial about the propaganda.†   (source)
  • Plato would have approved of him as an example of the philosopher-statesman, though Sen did not altogether approve of Plato, whom he suspected of grossly misrepresenting Socrates.†   (source)
  • Thus, unwilling to "represent the people of Nebraska if they did not want me," he came to a dramatic decision—he would offer to resign from the Senate and submit to a special recall election, "to let my constituents decide whether I was representing them or misrepresenting them in Washington."†   (source)
  • As the Massachusetts Legislature enacted further resolutions wholly contrary to the spirit of the Seventh of March speech, one member called Webster "a recreant son of Massachusetts who misrepresents her in the Senate"; and another stated that "Daniel Webster will be a fortunate man if God, in his sparing mercy, shall preserve his life long enough for him to repent of this act and efface this stain on his name."†   (source)
  • The Dallas Herald demanded that Houston resign the seat to which Texans had proudly sent him, instead of "retaining a position he has forfeited by misrepresenting them…… Let him heed for once the voice of an outraged, misrepresented, and betrayed constituency, so that Texas may for once have a united voice and present an undivided front in the Senate."†   (source)
  • The Dallas Herald demanded that Houston resign the seat to which Texans had proudly sent him, instead of "retaining a position he has forfeited by misrepresenting them…… Let him heed for once the voice of an outraged, misrepresented, and betrayed constituency, so that Texas may for once have a united voice and present an undivided front in the Senate."†   (source)
  • The Republicans had counted on Van WinldeWest Virginia's first United States Senator, and a critic of Stan-ton's removal; and for his courage, he was labeled "West Virginia's betrayer" by the Wheeling Intelligencer, who declared to the world that there was not a loyal citizen in the state who had not been misrepresented by his vote.†   (source)
  • On the contrary, it is a prolonged exercise in misrepresentation.†   (source)
  • The doctor didn't misrepresent what he had to offer--he was too careless even for that.†   (source)
  • " The old grande dame, I don't want to be misrepresenting her.†   (source)
  • It must be noted against Professor Toynbee, however, that he seriously misrepresents the mythological scene when he advertises Christianity as the only religion teaching this second task.†   (source)
  • …it which had been specifically described and deeded to him in the marriage settlement which he had entered in good faith, with no reservations as to his obscure origin and material equipment, while there had been not only reservation but actual misrepresentation on their part and misrepresentation of such a crass nature as to have not only voided and frustrated without his knowing it the central motivation of his entire design, but would have made an ironic delusion of all that he had…†   (source)
  • I misrepresent things to them.†   (source)
  • As Malory pictures him, Arthur of England was the champion of a civilization which is misrepresented in the history books.†   (source)
  • This is a misrepresentation.†   (source)
  • The happy ending is justly scorned as a misrepresentation; for the world, as we know it, as we have seen it, yields but one ending: death, disintegration, dismemberment, and the crucifixion of our heart with the passing of the forms that we have loved.†   (source)
  • Your citizen here misrepresented things.†   (source)
  • He was in the same plight as the manufacturer who has to adulterate and misrepresent his product.†   (source)
  • Interested people have perhaps misrepresented each to the other.†   (source)
  • I felt persuaded that this woman must have been misrepresented, lied about.†   (source)
  • At such a distance as that, you know, things are strangely misrepresented.†   (source)
  • And shark-headers is open to misrepresentations.†   (source)
  • From the beginning of my career I knew that I should win in the long run by sheer weight of public opinion, in spite of the long campaign of misrepresentation and calumny against me.†   (source)
  • You misrepresented things.†   (source)
  • He obtained (by misrepresentations) a supply of the vaccine and tested it in his stuffy closet of a laboratory.†   (source)
  • But she hated the motion pictures with their salacious and absurd misrepresentations of life, in some cases capably acted by skillful actors, and in others a silly series of scenes featuring some doll-faced girl.†   (source)
  • As no one makes any profit by the sale, there is no longer any stimulus to extravagance, and no misrepresentation; no cheating, no adulteration or imitation, no bribery or 'grafting.'†   (source)
  • I recollect it was settled by general consent that India was quite a misrepresented country, and had nothing objectionable in it, but a tiger or two, and a little heat in the warm part of the day.†   (source)
  • 'Even that affable and condescending ornament of society,' pursued Mr Meagles, 'may misrepresent us, we are afraid.†   (source)
  • "You began by saying that one report was false, Mrs. Cadwallader, and I believe this is false too," said Dorothea, with indignant energy; "at least, I feel sure it is a misrepresentation.†   (source)
  • They watch you, misrepresent you, write letters about you (anonymous sometimes), and you are the torment and the occupation of their lives.†   (source)
  • In entering upon the great work before us, we anticipate no small amount of misconception, misrepresentation, and ridicule; but we shall use every instrumentality without our power to effect our object.†   (source)
  • He had no proof whatever that her husband misrepresented her, and if he judged her by the surface of things was bound to believe that she liked her life.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER XXII He had slightly misrepresented the matter in saying that Catherine had consented to take the great step.†   (source)
  • But presently we had reason to suspect that we had allowed ourselves to be misled by misrepresentation of the state of affairs— Dr. Stockmann.†   (source)
  • The produce if honestly offered would have created no scandal; but the blunder of misrepresentation, coming at such a moment, dragged Henchard's name into the ditch.†   (source)
  • But I was a thousand miles from supposing that she would misunderstand and misrepresent things in so fanciful a way….†   (source)
  • "I'm not at all keen about marrying—your son misrepresented me; but there's no knowing what an interesting woman might do with me."†   (source)
  • but nevertheless misrepresented——the facts; and he eased off his disappointment, which was that of a man losing a chance for a little triumph that he had rather counted on, by a few words that he uttered aloud.†   (source)
  • He did not confuse nor misrepresent the facts, nor soften them in his own interest, nor omit the smallest detail.†   (source)
  • Misrepresentation—!†   (source)
  • In what imaginary act of friendship can you here defend yourself? or under what misrepresentation can you here impose upon others?†   (source)
  • I think that's it? excuse me I have forgotten your surname," he bowed politely to Razumihin) "insulted me by misrepresenting the idea I expressed to you in a private conversation, drinking coffee, that is, that marriage with a poor girl who has had experience of trouble is more advantageous from the conjugal point of view than with one who has lived in luxury, since it is more profitable for the moral character.†   (source)
  • The Doctor was both puzzled and disappointed, but he solved his perplexity by saying to himself that his daughter simply misrepresented—justifiably, if one would? but nevertheless misrepresented—the facts; and he eased off his disappointment, which was that of a man losing a chance for a little triumph that he had rather counted on, by a few words that he uttered aloud.†   (source)
  • One of the expedients of party to acquire influence within particular districts is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts.†   (source)
  • They retired whispering together; and, though her delicate sensibility did not take immediate alarm, and lay it down as fact, that Captain Tilney must have heard some malevolent misrepresentation of her, which he now hastened to communicate to his brother, in the hope of separating them forever, she could not have her partner conveyed from her sight without very uneasy sensations.†   (source)
  • You cannot shield yourselves too much against the jealousies and heartburnings which spring from these misrepresentations; they tend to render alien to each other those who ought to be bound together by fraternal affection.†   (source)
  • —Perhaps, he may have been misrepresented to you, as he was to me.†   (source)
  • There is nothing more unjust than the vulgar opinion, by which physicians are misrepresented, as friends to death.†   (source)
  • I have unfolded to you a complication of dangers to which you would be exposed, should you permit that sacred knot which binds the people of America together be severed or dissolved by ambition or by avarice, by jealousy or by misrepresentation.†   (source)
  • I soon discovered that both of them were perfect strangers to the rest of the company, and had never seen or heard of them before; and I had a whisper from a ghost who shall be nameless, "that these commentators always kept in the most distant quarters from their principals, in the lower world, through a consciousness of shame and guilt, because they had so horribly misrepresented the meaning of those authors to posterity."†   (source)
  • Here the writers against the Constitution seem to have taken pains to signalize their talent of misrepresentation.†   (source)
  • As to the principal fact, upon the misrepresentation of which you discarded him, I solemnly assure you he is innocent.†   (source)
  • I have taken the pains to select this instance of misrepresentation, and to place it in a clear and strong light, as an unequivocal proof of the unwarrantable arts which are practiced to prevent a fair and impartial judgment of the real merits of the Constitution submitted to the consideration of the people.†   (source)
  • Now, lest this latter should be the case, we think proper, before we go any farther together, to give thee a few wholesome admonitions; that thou may'st not as grossly misunderstand and misrepresent us, as some of the said editors have misunderstood and misrepresented their author.†   (source)
  • They have been held up to the people in all the exaggerated colors of misrepresentation as the pernicious engines by which their local governments were to be destroyed and their liberties exterminated; as the hideous monster whose devouring jaws would spare neither sex nor age, nor high nor low, nor sacred nor profane; and yet, strange as it may appear, after all this clamor, to those who may not have happened to contemplate them in the same light, it may be affirmed with perfect…†   (source)
  • And the unwarrantable concealments and misrepresentations which have been in various ways practiced to keep the truth from the public eye, have been of a nature to demand the reprobation of all honest men.†   (source)
  • I hope, therefore, no man will, by the grossest misunderstanding or perversion of my meaning, misrepresent me, as endeavouring to cast any ridicule on the greatest perfections of human nature; and which do, indeed, alone purify and ennoble the heart of man, and raise him above the brute creation.†   (source)
  • This will, moreover, afford a reason why the wiser man, as is often seen, is the bubble of the weaker, and why many simple and innocent characters are so generally misunderstood and misrepresented; but what is most material, this will account for the deceit which Sophia put on her politic aunt.†   (source)
  • It may even be remarked, that the same extended situation, which will exempt the people of America from some of the dangers incident to lesser republics, will expose them to the inconveniency of remaining for a longer time under the influence of those misrepresentations which the combined industry of interested men may succeed in distributing among them.†   (source)
  • As the cool and deliberate sense of the community ought, in all governments, and actually will, in all free governments, ultimately prevail over the views of its rulers; so there are particular moments in public affairs when the people, stimulated by some irregular passion, or some illicit advantage, or misled by the artful misrepresentations of interested men, may call for measures which they themselves will afterwards be the most ready to lament and condemn.†   (source)
  • Now, lest this latter should be the case, we think proper, before we go any farther together, to give thee a few wholesome admonitions; that thou may'st not as grossly misunderstand and misrepresent us, as some of the said editors have misunderstood and misrepresented their author.†   (source)
  • And surely it was scarce possible for any one to have avoided making the same remark with the barber, who had not indeed heard from Jones one single circumstance upon which he was condemned; for his actions were not now placed in those injurious lights in which they had been misrepresented to Allworthy; nor could he mention those many false accusations which had been from time to time preferred against him to Allworthy: for with none of these he was himself acquainted.†   (source)
  • "—"Why, I must confess," says Square, "as the matter was misrepresented to me, by that parson Thwackum, I might condemn the corruption of innocence: it was that, sir, it was that—and that—: for you must know, Mr Jones, in the consideration of fitness, very minute circumstances, sir, very minute circumstances cause great alteration.†   (source)
  • Thence he retired to his own apartment, to give vent to his concern; but the restlessness of his mind would not suffer him to remain long there; he slipped softly therefore to Allworthy's chamber-door, where he listened a considerable time without hearing any kind of motion within, unless a violent snoring, which at last his fears misrepresented as groans.†   (source)
  • And yet, as there is no conduct so fair and disinterested but that it may be misunderstood by ignorance, and misrepresented by malice, I have been sometimes tempted to preserve my own reputation at the expense of my reader, and to transcribe the original, or at least to quote chapter and verse, whenever I have made use either of the thought or expression of another.†   (source)
  • Here Mrs Fitzpatrick stopt, till, at the repeated entreaties of Sophia, she thus proceeded: "Though you must have heard much of my marriage; yet, as matters may probably have been misrepresented, I will set out from the very commencement of my unfortunate acquaintance with my present husband; which was at Bath, soon after you left my aunt, and returned home to your father.†   (source)
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