When radio came in, it continued the misplaced modifier in its routines as a standard device.

In recent years gagwriters have discovered this brand of blunder and thus the misplaced modifier has acquired a new habitat in the gagline.

Strunk and White's The Elements of Style provides another kind of example, a misplaced modifier ( another participle ):

* Dangling modifier ( or dangling participle ), a type of misplaced grammatical phrase

Dartmoor still has a misplaced reputation for being a high-security prison that is escape-proof.

The film is an expressionistic, part-horror, part-thriller, part-science fiction film about the obsession with eternal youth and misplaced faith in the ability of medical science to achieve it.

The Orkneyinga Saga reports strife with Norway but this is probably misplaced as it associates this with Magnus Barefoot, who became king of Norway only in 1093, the year of Malcolm's death.

A common claim is the monument was misplaced west of the true Four Corners, within this range.

In 2007 the American Ornithologists ' Union's North American checklist moved Cathartidae back into the lead position in Falconiformes, but with an asterisk that indicates it is a taxon " that is probably misplaced in the current phylogenetic listing but for which data indicating proper placement are not yet available ".

Often the item misplaced in time is an object, but it may be a verbal expression, a technology, a philosophical idea, a musical style, a material, a custom, or anything else associated with a particular period in time so that it is incorrect to place it outside its proper temporal domain.

While the Walkers initially greet him with awe and respect, they eventually realize their admiration is misplaced and ridicule him in later appearances.

In Will Therapy, published in German in 1929-31, Rank uses the term “ here and now ” for the first time in the psychotherapeutic literature: “ Freud made the repression historical, that is, misplaced it into the childhood of the individual and then wanted to release it from there, while as a matter of fact the same tendency is working here and now ” ( Rank, 1929 – 31, p. 39 ).

Lone Starr's costume is intentionally misplaced, resembling a Colonial Warrior from Battlestar Galactica and Ford's Indiana Jones costume ( he is seen wearing a cowboy hat in his first scene, which is set aside and not seen for the remainder of the film ) rather than that of Han Solo or Luke Skywalker.

If this subset is optimally chosen each time this is performed, the expected value of the total number of times this operation needs to be done is equal to the number of misplaced elements.

The popular prayer for return of lost or misplaced things is addressed to Karthviryarjuna.

Problems will occur with misplaced communications, troops going to the wrong location, delays caused by weather, etc., and it is the duty of the commander to do his best to overcome them.

Much of the dialogue between Mexican characters is in English and the small amount of Spanish that peppers the dialogue consists of basic greetings, goodbyes, exclamations, and misplaced references to popular Mexican foods.

:" There is not a misplaced line in this remarkable stand.

The album's story revolved around a junkie who is brainwashed into performing assassinations for an underground movement ; the junkie (" Nikki ") is torn over his misplaced loyalty to the cause and his love of a reformed hooker-turned-nun (" Mary ," vocals by Pamela Moore ) who gets in the way.

The cause of BPPV is the presence of normal but misplaced calcium crystals called otoconia, which are normally found in the utricle and saccule ( the otolith organs ) and are used to sense movement.

This seems to me to be another one of Jane Fonda's misplaced ' patriotic ' duties toward the wrong people.

The show revolved around Cavanagh's Ed Stevens, a hotshot New York lawyer who on the same day is fired from his job ( for drafting a contract with a misplaced comma that ended up costing his firm $ 1. 6 million ) and comes home to discover his wife sleeping with a mailman ( the wife makes the point that it is not their mailman in particular, but another mailman ).

For instance, the keys that are intended to be used in some column of some table might be designed to " look differently from " those that are intended to be used in another column or table, thereby simplifying the detection of application errors in which the keys have been misplaced.

He scored another memorable goal against Tottenham that season, this time in the FA Cup, and at White Hart Lane, when he took a misplaced pass from Osvaldo Ardiles on the right hand corner of the penalty area, flicked the ball into the air and hit a lob-volley into the far corner of the goal.

The family Stygophalangiidae ( 1 species, Stygophalangium karamani ) from underground waters in Macedonia is sometimes misplaced in the Phalangioidea.

Eliza Dushku claims Faith's bond with the Mayor stems from his being one of the few people in her life who does not put her down, which is something she has battled with her whole life ; Dushku goes on to say Faith's misplaced trust in the Mayor " leads her into being more crazy ".

However, they end up taking much more than the fractions of a cent because of a misplaced decimal point.

After more investigation, Dr. Hirsch finds out that the police report was " misplaced ", and that David's wounds were cleaned and dressed before he was even looked at by the authorities.

When in 1975 dialect folk and rock bands such as Normaal and Boh Foi Toch became successful with their overt disapproval of what they experienced as " misplaced Dutch snobbery " and the western Dutch contempt for ( speakers of ) Low Saxon dialects, they quickly gained an enormous following among the more rurally oriented inhabitants of the Netherlands, launching Low Saxon as a vibrant sub-culture, which is very lively up until today.

A more modern idea suggests that the focus on surgery status is misplaced, and therefore, an increasing number of people are refusing to define themselves in terms of operative status, often defining themselves based on their social presentation instead.

It is known as a risky maneuver: a misplaced headbutt can cause more damage to the person delivering the headbutt than to the person receiving it.

Several of the stories show her attempts to learn to be more seductive towards him ; for example, she watches ( and takes notes from ) a pornography tape that Seiji had misplaced.

Having customer data stolen, lost, or misplaced contributes to the ever growing number of people who are affected by identity theft, which can cause corporations to lose more than just money.

" Some critics have found these works impenetrable and elitist ; some argue that Trow's nostalgia for the pre-television era was misplaced, because the subsequent civil rights movements had made American culture more democratic.

Even when her wide blue eyes well up with tears, the pain she conveys is more the frustration of a little girl who has misplaced her doll than any deep, empathetic suffering.

What is more, a lot of his time is diverted by the Italian authorities, to whom he has to report on a regular basis and who eventually inform him that they have misplaced his passport so that he is temporarily unable to leave the country.

Meanwhile Rose Ratliff ( Tomlin ) has risen to the office of forewoman at the Hollowmade Factory, and her personality is also very career-oriented, setting her personal life aside, while Sadie Ratliff ( Midler ) has always felt misplaced in rural life and wishes for a more sophisticated life in a big city.

In the version, German scientist Emil von Wolff misplaced a decimal point in an 1870 measurement of spinach's iron content, leading to an iron value 10 times higher than it should have been, and this faulty measurement was not noticed until the 1930s.

Smaller flaws, such as color shifts, misplaced perforations, hickeys ( or donuts ) and other such anomalies are termed freaks, rather than errors.

False precision ( also called overprecision, fake precision, misplaced precision and spurious accuracy ) occurs when numerical data are presented in a manner that implies better precision than is actually the case ; since precision is a limit to accuracy, this often leads to overconfidence in the accuracy as well.

In order to be released at the same time as the game, commercial strategy guides are often based on a pre-release version of the game, rather than the final retail version ; BradyGames ' guide for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, for instance, included some misplaced item locations and a slightly different map, which made some directions impossible to follow.

A fifth section ( stanzas 22 to 27 ) consists of a misplaced version of the flyting between Sinfjötli ( Helgi's half-brother ) and Guthmundr, which probably is older than the one found in Helgakviða Hundingsbana I.

However, this speculation proved misplaced or at least premature, as the 2011 season was announced with only one less official money event than in 2010, with virtually identical prize money.

It can be considered a risky but very effective maneuver as a misplaced strike can cause greater injury to the person delivering the headbutt than to the person receiving it.

However, the saga tradition is older than the chronological scheme, which is an artificial attempt by Christian monks to synchronise native traditions with classical and biblical history, and it is possible that the Ulster Cycle is based on historical wars between the Ulaid and the Connachta which have been chronologically misplaced.

For example, a wallet found in a shop lying on a counter near a cash register will likely be deemed misplaced rather than lost.