As used by some journalists, particularly sportswriters, " gaffe " becomes an imagined synonym for any kind of mistake, e. g., a dropped ball by a player in a baseball game.

Digory's uncle is frozen with fear and unable to communicate with the talking animals, who mistake him for a kind of tree.

According to Aristotle, " The change to bad fortune which he undergoes is not due to any moral defect or flaw, but a mistake of some kind.

In 1997, Film Comment published a review calling Hell's Hinges a " classic of its kind " and arguing that " to dismiss it casually as a western would be a mistake, for it more resembles The Atonement of Gosta Berling than it does Riders of the Purple Sage.

The September 11 attacks in 2001 was a turning point in administration policy, as Wolfowitz later explained: " 9 / 11 really was a wake up call and that if we take proper advantage of this opportunity to prevent the future terrorist use of weapons of mass destruction that it will have been an extremely valuable wake up call ," adding: " if we say our only problem was to respond to 9 / 11, and we wait until somebody hits us with nuclear weapons before we take that kind of threat seriously, we will have made a very big mistake.

In an interview, the Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams expressed his thought that " creationism is, in a sense, a kind of category mistake, as if the Bible were a theory like other theories.

One of the things I felt like from the last Demons album was that we had this window of opportunity where we had to get it done and we kind of let time dictate the schedule instead of our feelings and that was probably a mistake.

* The quantity of examples of Socialist Realism architecture in Konin is impressive and, without any mistake it can be stated that the gathering of the buildings of this kind in Konin is one of the largest assemblage in Poland.

A category mistake, or category error, is a semantic or ontological error in which " things of one kind are presented as if they belonged to another ", or, alternatively, a property is ascribed to a thing that could not possibly have that property.

I am not making that kind of mistake twice.

One day while mixing a tub of the orthodox yellow kind he dropped some red cinnamon candies in by mistake.

This is a mistake ; they think that the distinction between them is not a difference in kind, but a simple, numerical difference .” ( Politics Bk I, § i )

A study released by the U. S. Public Interest Research Group in June 2004 found that 79 % of the consumer credit reports surveyed contained some kind of error or mistake.

This was only the second contact between humans and intelligent alien life, the Formics being the first, and Starways Congress decided to impose strict limitations on any kind of contact between pequeninos and humans — if any mistake were to occur it would be on the side of too little association, not too much.

He's the kind of guy who never makes the same mistake twice.

This is probably a kind of mimicry, to ward off predators that mistake the harmless animal for a venomous spider.

Clement said years later that he'd made a mistake by trying to run the same kind of campaign that his father had in his glory days.

The police are about to put this report down a mistake of some kind when Mrs. St. Clair spots and identifies a box of wooden bricks that her husband said he would buy for their son.

I have always tried to be kind to everyone, but please don ’ t mistake my kindness for weakness.

" New York Times columnist Mike Freeman wrote, " Yes, Mr. Favre, Strahan deserves the record, but please, handing it to him the way you did, as if you were throwing change into a Salvation Army bucket, is the kind of mistake Favre may never live down.

This proves to be a mistake when Jax proves to be an insolent, arrogant, self serving and malicious boy ( causing several people to doubt whether he is the Guardian but most were unfortunately in denial that Terrel is the guardian ) while Terrel is humble, kind and likeable but is feared because of his eyes which shine like stars.

It seems to be some kind of a mistake that I am alive.

It was a mistake that decent people of the left made when they were living under right-wing dictatorships – the kind of mistake where you just reverse the black and white propaganda.

the group sets the styles in clothing, the kind of play engaged in, and the ideals of right and wrong behavior.

But in either event he was the wrong man for the kind of case outlined by Ben Gurion and set forth in the indictment.

It seems wrong to say that " went to a ballgame " is a property that instantiates John, because " went to a ballgame " does not seem to be the same ontological kind of thing as, for instance, redness.

There are still many other elements, such as Chéng ( 誠, honesty ), Shù ( 恕, kindness and forgiveness ), Lián ( 廉, honesty and cleanness ), Chǐ ( 恥, shame, judge and sense of right and wrong ), Yǒng ( 勇, bravery ), Wēn ( 溫, kind and gentle ), Liáng ( 良, good, kindhearted ), Gōng ( 恭, respectful, reverent ), Jiǎn ( 儉, frugal ), Ràng ( 讓, modestly, self-effacing ).

The " very seductive " moral and ethical rhetoric of Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation fails, he said, " not because his principles are wrong, but because that kind of language ... simply does not persuade anybody ".

Food — too much, not enough, the wrong kind, the wrong frequency — is one of our society ’ s greatest causes of disease and death.

There is something about a storyteller becoming rich and having a reasonably full private life that has a powerful potential to irritate so that, when things go wrong, it causes a very special kind of joy.

Questions of the third kind ask, for example, how we can know if something is right or wrong, if at all.

A shallow approach which simply guessed at the sense of the ambiguous English phrase that Piron mentions ( based, perhaps, on which kind of prisoner-of-war camp is more often mentioned in a given corpus ) would have a reasonable chance of guessing wrong fairly often.

Shinto teaches that certain deeds create a kind of ritual impurity that one should want cleansed for one's own peace of mind and good fortune rather than because impurity is wrong.

While modern machines no longer have tilt switches, any kind of technical fault ( door switch in the wrong state, reel motor failure, out of paper, etc.

I would love to finish Hitchhiker on a slightly more upbeat note, so five seems to be a wrong kind of number ; six is a better kind of number.

I would love to finish Hitchhiker on a slightly more upbeat note, so five seems to be a wrong kind of number ; six is a better kind of number.

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But this ' one ' has no meaning beyond being a number and is thus also the wrong kind of answer.

In portraying his Long figure this way, Basso finds himself between the stools, critical of the spent aristocrats who cannot imagine a modern South, but disgusted also by the figures who represent the wrong kind of newness, the kind of modern South that comes to be if its development is left to default.

Because Richie doesn't compromise his principles as easily and sticks to what's right and wrong, Fonzie doesn't subject Richie to this kind of treatment, and over time, grows fond of him.

" We're going to be focusing an enormous amount of public interest on a whole, wide range of environmental events, hopefully in such a manner that it's going to be drawing the interrelationships between them and, getting people to look at the whole thing as one consistent kind of picture, a picture of a society that's rapidly going in the wrong direction that has to be stopped and turned around.

Then it becomes this kind of legend – which it deserves to be ... even if it's the wrong legend.

Mackenzie King wrote in his diary on 8 December 1936 he felt that, for Edward, " any sense of right or wrong has been largely obliterated by the jazz of life he has led for years ", and later, upon receiving news of Edward's final decision to abdicate, wrote " if that is the kind of man he is it is better he should not be longer on the Throne.

Another difference is regarding the Dai Gohonzon as a super-mandala by the priesthood while this is disputed by SGI: “... it is wrong to think that the Dai-Gohonzon alone has some kind of unique mystic power that no other Gohonzon possesses.