In the very height of her sudden madness she was still capable of a curious misdirected feminine unselfishness.
You are a wonderful example of misdirected energies.
Nero was self-willed and occasionally had tantrums--but a tantrum is only a little whirl-wind ofmisdirected energy.
To one who is interested to study the possible results of misdirected nervous power, nothing could illustrate it with more painful force than the story by Rudyard Kipling, "In the Matter of a Private.
Of course the mind and its rapid and misdirected working is a strong preventive of free nerves, relaxed muscles, and natural sleep.
This misdirected force seems to be the secret of much of the overwork in schools, and the consequent physical break-down of school children, especially girls.
Sham emotions are, of course, always misdirected force; but it is not unusual to see a woman suffering from nervous prostration caused by nervous power lying idle.
I accused earth and sky --the universal machine and the Almighty power that misdirected it.
It is necessary, however, not only to provide an opportunity for non-attention or misdirected attention, but to be able to take advantage of it when the proper moment arrives.
Minds are overburdened in school, with too much teaching or misdirected teaching.
Treatment intended to be remedial is therefore very often misdirected and fails to afford relief, positive injury frequently resulting instead.
Two were misdirected and the shot went too high, but the last round fell in the midst of a group of hussars and knocked three of them over.
Altogether the attempt to make Domesday serve the purpose of establishing the mode of tenure for the thirteenth century must be called a misdirected one.
The conduct of the king's judges was especially misdirectedin one famous case which came up several times before the courts during the thirteenth century.
The brave voices were few and fewer; the conservatives were glad when one was hushed by death.
Others were willing to pity and deplore; Margaret was more inclined to vindicate and to redeem.
Considerable harm resulted from such misdirected measures, while much good to both nations could have been derived from a policy of attraction, frank, loyal, and disinterested.
Olaso misdirected his forces and, advancing too near to the wall of the fort, was wounded in his side and fell.
But the daring though misdirected valor of the British Grenadiers, and the imposing front of their supports, failed not to confirm Montcalm's deep forebodings of the probable result of a battle.
It is still doubtful whether Lord Howe fell by the fire of the enemy, or by a misdirected shot from some unhappy hand among his own confused and startled soldiers.
A minor example of this error may be found in the support accorded the axe-wielding termagant by women of pure aims but misdirected energies and enthusiasms.
Public Opinion, as we have seen, is a tremendous power but it is the power of a high explosive which misdirected and ill-used will spread disaster.
Misdirected and unsupervised immigration has been for the Church in the past a great source of leakage.
She was too young to perceive the essential pathos of all wasted effort, of all misdirected attempts to overcome the disadvantages of ignorance; and while she looked at him now, she saw only the vulgarity.
She seemed to me a restless, lonely, misdirectedintelligence hungry to know things.
By some extraordinary mischance, she had misdirected it.
The universities represented have organized themselves into a civil army, preventing the wastes of duplication, misdirected endeavor, and isolation so common everywhere.
Random efforts not coordinated in a general scheme for the utilization of school children in large units will be foolish, misdirected effort.
When we remember how easily all this was dispersed, we must believe that the leaders were very incompetent, and that the old Prince of Brunswick must once more have misdirected the courageous soldiers confided to him.
We cannot, indeed, too speedily abandon thismisdirected aim, of seeking for precise dates of epochs in primitive history.
Many are tempted, therefore, to give in to irritation over misdirected ministerial energy or to a desire for emotional comfort rather than an aroused conscience.
It is only a name for the mass of accumulated human effort, successful here, baffled there, misdirected and driven astray in a third region, but on the whole and in the main producing some cumulative result.
Posticus paralysis may occur from recurrent or vagal pressure by a misdirected esophagoscope.
The danger lies in misdirected efforts at removal of the intruder and in repeating bronchoscopies in children at too frequent intervals, or in prolonging the procedure unduly.
