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  • noun Plural form of misdirection.

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Examples

  • From the beginning, we see Frank Abagnale, Jr. arrested at a Miami airport for an array of misdeeds and misdirections.

    Regina Weinreich: Con Me If You Can: The Broadway Musical Regina Weinreich 2011

  • Well lets see how this plays out now that the new way is to push back on the wrong side party ` s filibuster crap. both Schultz and Gibbs need to spend time on debunking lies and misdirections and less time padding there ego ` s.

    Think Progress » Gibbs responds: I told Ed Schultz he was intentionally lying to ‘get people to watch his show.’ 2010

  • So HBO's polygamy drama Big Love has come out in a complete series boxed set and now we can start to get a handle on what we've got here, the highs and the lows, the misdirections, the confused plotlines that sometimes petered out and sometimes paid off.

    Michael Giltz: DVDs: Apes Rule in "Rise," "Tokyo Drifter" And A Smurfing Lot Of Other Titles On Tap Michael Giltz 2011

  • From the beginning, we see Frank Abagnale, Jr. arrested at a Miami airport for an array of misdeeds and misdirections.

    Regina Weinreich: Con Me If You Can: The Broadway Musical Regina Weinreich 2011

  • Good story structure, after all, can be anything: it can be loopy and deconstructed; it can turn chronology inside out, shatter the fourth wall, break reality, and be as full of surprises, misdirections, and dead ends as a moonlit neighborhood in Venice, the kind you chase a murderous dwarf through because you're convinced it's a kid in a red raincoat.

    Susan Kim: The Fiction of Nonfiction TV Susan Kim 2011

  • I felt more than a tad guilty, in fact, spinning fabrications and misdirections in St. Urhos, on the Thursday evening immediately after my arrival, as I caught up with my friends in Finnish fandom.

    Adventures of a Couch-Hopping Scribbler Part 3: Hail, Helsinki! Hal Duncan 2010

  • Beyond the well-known implications of such a war and its scope, a declaration of war would only bolster an Iran that is economically and domestically weak and run by a cleric established looking for an outsider on which to further project conspiratorial misdirections through its state-run media.

    Adam Chandler: Show, Don't Tell: WikiLeaks and Our War with Iran Adam Chandler 2010

  • Beyond the well-known implications of such a war and its scope, a declaration of war would only bolster an Iran that is economically and domestically weak and run by a cleric established looking for an outsider on which to further project conspiratorial misdirections through its state-run media.

    Adam Chandler: Show, Don't Tell: WikiLeaks and Our War with Iran Adam Chandler 2010

  • The heart of the problem is what those powers-that-be are up against, the pressure exerted by the prejudiced and privileged to maintain this unjust segregation by shrouding it in misdirections and misrepresentations.

    A Sodomite's Sermon Hal Duncan 2009

  • Good story structure, after all, can be anything: it can be loopy and deconstructed; it can turn chronology inside out, shatter the fourth wall, break reality, and be as full of surprises, misdirections, and dead ends as a moonlit neighborhood in Venice, the kind you chase a murderous dwarf through because you're convinced it's a kid in a red raincoat.

    Susan Kim: The Fiction of Nonfiction TV Susan Kim 2011

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  • Missed what?! They have pills for that these days.

    November 1, 2009

  • Never waste one.

    November 1, 2009