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misplaced
1. at the misplaced fort’s arched blue gates,
2. I started with my suspicions of Daphne, told her about the interloper and then about Mercouri and his misplaced lusting after she had left
3. I felt anger at my dad, totally misplaced as I should have felt anger at the
4. Cutting her wheel sharply to the right, she plowed into a mound of snow and came to rest against a misplaced bolder, from the steep overhang of the cliff above her
5. police when something gets misplaced in the house, are
6. I’d let a misplaced sense of honor stop me from drugging Polyphemus soon enough
7. E: -- Having the ELS wrap the Old Testament 9 times extracting 12 letters from the text in each pass, proves and confirms that the entire Old Testament is word-for-word and letter-for-letter exactly what it was designed to be and that not a letter was lost or misplaced over the ages
8. Since the few payphones were always occupied, not many of us had not bothered and the sergeant was really upset about our lack of “respect and love for our mothers who had survived the f terrible English Queen in the f concentration camps, and obviously out of f misplaced love had allowed us to become f longhaired liberals and f commies with no sense of f responsibility
9. When principles of non-violence are either self-contained or practiced unconditionally under circumstances (otherwise) calling for a measured response, (sound) judgment and common sense appealing to the requirements of a peaceful, well-ordered society that every citizen (otherwise) owes an obligation, and whose conspicuous merits, perhaps laudable in some instances, however questionable at other times, and where (such) natural impulses are routinely rejected, even more remarkably when Property and Person and at times the Nation, are at risk by (anti-social) individuals determined to provoke harm; weighs in the balance, and where (institutional) recourse is problematical or uncertain, an (individual) is required, inasmuch as it lies within that individual‘s capacity to do so, to discourage such annoyances as they may present themselves to that individual as well as that individual‘s family and friends, however contrary to that individual‘s ―nature,‖ lest that individual‘s misplaced pacifism further encourage mischief makers and bullies alike, by providing license to habitually upset the harmony and safety of private and public concerns as it (otherwise) suits their primitive whims
10. Even if one accepts American carpet bombing of both Germany and Japan as misplaced anger over the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese attack was on a military target
11. His thoughtless indifference to the momentous progress made in this area (race relations) over the past forty years or more, extemporaneously betrays an intellectual dishonesty steeped in naiveté and misplaced idealism that has lost much of its (historical) relevance in modern society; aside from the rantings of racial factions that stand to profit by re-opening old wounds which Mr
12. Have I misplaced it?
13. This book has tried to show why such hero worship is almost always misplaced
14. However, a series of inexplicable incidents occurred in the halls of justice regarding petitions and data submitted on Walston’s behalf: files were misplaced or lost with such regularity that his attorney became convinced the case was being influenced by unseen powers working contrary to Brian’s interests
15. It was the fear of something new; it was the sensation that something was amiss, that something had been overlooked, underestimated, forgotten, misplaced
16. Hilderich indulged the machine, taking a couple of steps back absent-mindedly while at the same time his head was turned upwards, his stare fixed on the unbelievably ugly and misplaced metal object which seemed to be the size of a large wardrobe or closet
17. An eye for an eye, Ethan!” he cried with misplaced fervor
18. I knew instantly that I had said the wrong thing anyway and that it would have been much wiser to avoid sarcasm or misplaced witty repartee
19. ” I could tell that Witty really enjoyed his misplaced blame fart game
20. I also don’t agree with Berlinski that Dennet’s statement indicates misplaced self-confidence
21. Or, had he transcribed those words from a text so ancient that it had been lost beyond the memory of those who had misplaced it, and then found by a near miraculous accidental discovery, hovering, as it were, on the verge of disintegration when it was rescued?
22. met with the burn of electricity by a misplaced hand, and was out cold at the
23. I rather felt sorry for Chabi (very misplaced sentiments as it turned out), but said nothing along those lines
24. purpose? What is behind that misplaced zeal?
25. The time had just never seemed right and then he misplaced the letter, a few months ago
26. Her hate was misplaced
27. The real question is not, why is there something rather than nothing? The real question is, why does anything at all exist? Therefore, your fear of 'nothing', of 'nothingness', is misplaced and pointless
28. In the long run, Deb’s optimism proved misplaced
29. Revenge is anger in action and misplaced anger can have disastrous results
30. proclivities of the post–WW II mentality will spring, that is, from a misplaced sense of noblesse oblige
31. So that which is misplaced
32. was ever so misplaced
33. “Yes, and my pearl pen would still be misplaced somewhere within it, along with a tenth of my items!” Alilia laughed
34. Such practical avoidance of risk is at the core of your abhorrence for public fornication, but if there’s no real risk of harm, your abhorrence is misplaced
35. Now, in the anger of desperation, he swung a misplaced blow at the donkey that hit him on the
36. “How could the chip have been misplaced?”
37. Her accusations of treachery and murder seemed to vanish away, replaced only by the knowledge of how foolishness, misplaced hope and desperation had brought them all to this point
38. A faulty chart, based on the best information of the day, misplaced Howland Island
39. whereabouts have been mysteriously misplaced or concealed
40. But how many times would it take him to learn? His misplaced or mistimed sense of humor caused him as much trouble in life as his hot temper—perhaps more
41. "I hope for your sake your confidence is not misplaced," Asmodai said silkily, "what about the host of Heaven?"
42. misplaced along the way
43. He hadn’t been home for the past two days, but he had called that afternoon to try to get his mother to look for some phone number he said he had misplaced
44. “Oh, thank you,” she replies with a bounce so as to adjust the weight of the baby on her small frame, and tug at a shoulder strap with the hand that has just received the misplaced card
45. thousand dollars has been misplaced, on purpose, by Max
46. misplaced and was it that he no
47. The canvas of the life I’ve misplaced,
48. These misplaced emotions will naturally feel unjust to people unless they understand what is happening
49. He had spent a dark week on the final preparations for the trip, because as the hour approached his humor was breaking down and things began to be misplaced, and what he put in one place would appear in another, attacked by the same elves that had tormented Fernanda
50. misplaced your keys, stand in the middle of the room with your pendulum