Sentence examples for Quite mistakenly from inspiring English sources

Sanitary reformers quite mistakenly believed that the stench from poorly interred decaying bodies was poisoning the metropolis.

There is a perception - quite mistakenly in my view - that the viewers are a fairly simple-minded bunch who need pretty faces to keep them hooked".

Mr. Oestreich's comments on Mr. Rosen's review of the first edition of the New Grove suggest, quite mistakenly, that it was the only one of value.

When I received a call from my psychoanalyst's colleague saying that she had suffered a debilitating stroke and heard the phrase, "She will never practice again," I thought, A sudden blow: Quite mistakenly on that Sunday in March three years ago, I assumed that nothing would follow the stroke's wrenching colon, and my beloved analyst would die.

And again I could see how, in some contexts, those qualities could seem to represent integrity and commitment to principle and in others mere rigidity and self-involvement.... Mentions his intense personal ambition... To ask what he hopes to get by identifying at this late date with his father's politics is to assume, quite possibly mistakenly, that he ever had a choice.

With respect to EByou−P, P is epistemically improbable; after all, you have the same evidence as the jury for ¬P, and the jury is quite properly (if mistakenly) convinced that you did the crime.

(Not quite because I once mistakenly experimented with something called Christmas Pudding Ice Cream, a confection I discovered to be avoided).

Unaware that the Eagles had worn their white jerseys at home to make the Cowboys wear their unfamiliar blue jerseys, my father entered just as Dallas's Troy Aikman took the last snap; he mistakenly started cheering, quite enthusiastically, for the Eagles to sack the quarterback.

For example, in the PCA experiments of Fig 5 quite a few individuals from American were mistakenly predicted as from East Asia.

OPERA (above) took data from 2008 to 2012 and created quite a sensation in September 2011, when it announced (mistakenly) that neutrinos fired from the European particle physics lab, CERN, 730 kilometers away in Switzerland, appeared to travel faster than light.

He is, quite evidently, engaged in a wholly pointless activity which he mistakenly sees as an effective means to his indefensible ends.