Sentence examples for Very amiss from inspiring English sources

And the older I got the more I was able to observe the way they lived their lives and the more I was convinced that there was something very amiss there.

My lab had an especially critical ethos, but this emphasis on questioning results and maintaining skepticism is very common in the U.S. Something is clearly wrong in a lab seminar if the speaker has managed to go through his talk without any interruptions; something VERY amiss if there are no questions even at the end.

But there is something very amiss in the way this situation has been handled.

That's not embarrassing on its surface, but when you watch this video and peel back the layers, you see that something is very amiss.

He told the Pollard review: The idea of an ex-chairman of the Conservative party phoning up about a programme which was going to be about senior Thatcher-era Conservatives was, I thought, something that could be taken very much amiss.

Maybe something really was amiss in spyland?

First, he claimed that it wasn't absolutely clear, even during the manic market run-up of 1999, that something was amiss: "it was very difficult to definitively identify a bubble until after the fact -- that is, when its bursting confirmed its existence".

Lee Worden explains what is amiss with this very Californian, techno-libertarian ideal of 'do-ocracy': "In hacker circles and other Petri dishes for cultural experimentation such as Burning Man, the word 'do-ocracy' has become popular.

"You can see very, very quickly if anything is amiss," said Mr. Fox, director of business product management at Google.

But I think a little bit of reassurance from the management would not go amiss and Howley is very good at doing that.

Fighting talk is all very well, but some transparency wouldn't go amiss.