I'm a misplaced American, but don't know where I was misplaced
When it comes to e-book playback devices and software, I have always thought that the emphasis on ergonomic concerns as a tipping point for the end-user population was misplaced.
What you hope for determines what you live for. What you hope for determines WHO you live for. Hope misplaced can devastate you.
I felt like I'd been misplaced in the cosmos and I belonged in Maine.
his planet came with a set of instructions, but we seem to have misplaced them. Important rules like don’t poison the water, soil, or air, don’t let the earth get overcrowded, and don’t touch the thermostat have been broken.
On any given day, something claims our attention. Anything at all, inconsequential things. A rosebud, a misplaced hat, that sweater we liked as a child, an old Gene Pitney record. A parade of trivia with no place to go. Things that bump around in our consciousness for two or three days then go back to wherever they came from. . . to darkness. We've got all these wells dug in our hearts. While above the wells, birds flit back and forth.
It was pretty daunting. Normally, I never go to a gym, but before we started shooting, I thought I'd better. I reckoned I was in really good shape, and then I looked around and I was half the size of everyone else. A lot of these American actors have this - in my view - misplaced view that they have to look like Action Man. The trouble is, they all run the risk of being interchangeable.
Let's start with some of the reasons that the press holds its tongue and some of the things that you don't know because of this. We'll begin with squeamishness, prudishness, timidity and an overdeveloped fear of offending someone. . . So much for squeamishness and prudishness. There are many other reasons that we editors fail you in this pact you and we have. Let me name a few more: Orthodoxy, conventional thinking, a misplaced pleasure at being on the inside, incompetence and laziness.
Confidence is inspiring. Yet so often misplaced. (Robert Thornhill)
Some people misunderstand evil and believe it will relent, and because their misplaced hope inspires dark hearts to dream darker dreams, they are the fathers and mothers of all wars. Evil does not relent; it must be defeated. And even when defeated, uprooted, and purified by fire, evil leaves behind a seed that will one day germinate and, in blooming, again be misunderstood.
You get a sense of reference there. You feel part of something that's got order and balance and harmony to it. All the distraction and noise, all the confusion of misplaced, misdirected energy just don't happen there.
The devil considers all misplaced trust as devil worship, for he hides himself in its shadows.
Do you trust me? The question is usually asked before an admission that such trust is misplaced.
In the euphoria after the Cold War, there was a misplaced notion that the UN could solve every problem anywhere.
Misplaced hate makes disgrace the races.
Enthusiasm and misplaced belief can take you a long way.
The day misspent, the love misplaced, has inside it the seed of redemption. Nothing is exempt from resurrection.
Hope sustains life, but misplaced hope prolongs recessions.
Dirt has been shrewdly termed "misplaced material.
Perhaps, as we say in America, I wanted to find myself. This is an interesting phrase, not current as far as I know in the language of any other people, which certainly does not mean what it says but betrays a nagging suspicion that something has been misplaced. I think now that if I had any intimation that the self I was going to find would turn out to be only the same self from which I had spent so much time in flight, I would have stayed at home.
