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A comedy of miscomprehension that explodes into sudden tragedy, it is all the sadder for involving no villains, no clash of good and evil, or even of conscious right and wrong.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was only one object of praise concerning the praising, whereof he ignored every idea of difficulty and miscomprehension, and this was Leibgeber, his friend.

From Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. by Jean Paul

But you were talking of your miscomprehension of Doggie.”

From The Rough Road by Locke, William John

Nevertheless the wounds caused by such awkward miscomprehension are, of all others, the most difficult for nervous temperaments to bear.

From Life of Chopin by Cook, Martha Elizabeth Duncan Walker

It was as if she felt herself so far removed from his conception of her that she might say anything she pleased, sure of his miscomprehension.

From The Desert and the Sown by Foote, Mary Hallock