His mannerist, almost dandyish, style has led serious people to make this same misjudgment.
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These events indicate an already recognized pattern of misjudgment which spans several years and administrations.
In fact it was BP's misjudgment of Russian politics and corporate culture that did for the deal.
Whatever the motive, it showed profound misjudgment, not least in Mr Sharon's assessment of the mood in Washington.
Every festival must have at least one scandalous misjudgment and the Venice jury this year was no exception.
Bad ones, also known as malinvestment, are mistakes caused by misjudgment, and breaking up banks does not prevent that.
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Just that kind of misjudgment left many companies stranded in the fall of 2008, when the commercial paper markets dried up.
In a rare misjudgment of the public mood, Lula laughingly lamented his bad luck to be leaving just before the largesse arrived.
That includes Clay, who proved how thin the margin for error is in the decathlon: One mistake or misjudgment can cost you everything.
Yet even when loss of shareholder value is a long-term consequence of the acquisition, the company executives responsible for the misjudgment usually remain unscathed.
We live with the still possibly murderous consequences of that misjudgment.
Removing the Start button in Windows 8 is Microsoft's first misjudgment.
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This wasn't a radical act of political will, nor a single mistake (a slip of an engraver's hand, perhaps), but a sustained act of misjudgment.
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During the past decade, Citi has become synonymous with financial misjudgment, reckless lending, and gargantuan losses: what might be termed asset denuding rather than asset building.
And while it's easy to sympathize with Affleck's impulse to slot Morgan Freeman into the gravitas-heavy role of a police department official, it's his only serious misjudgment.
The defense is likely to argue that even if Zimmerman made a misjudgment or mistake, as a neighborhood watch volunteer, he had none of these bad motives.
But its grip is loosening, thanks to some plucky foreign upstarts, a looming antitrust claim filed by a competitor and a misjudgment of the market's appetite for popular video-game slots.
Such a view is a slanderous misjudgment, says Peter Gay, emeritus professor of history at Yale, whose new book is a witty and sophisticated defence of the Victorian middle class.
First of all, he made the misjudgment of saying to America that he was going to build a true alliance, that he would exhaust the remedies of the United Nations and go through with the inspections.
Whom should we blame for this misjudgment?
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