Sentence examples for a sort of mistake from inspiring English sources
"Evolution actually made a sort of mistake in a sense that it actually created primates with optimisation ability and that optimisation ability got powerful enough to actually understand evolution.
It is worth saying that Santayana's treatment of the topic in The Sense of Beauty (1896) was the last major account offered in English for some time, possibly because, once beauty has been admitted to be entirely subjective, much less when it is held to rest on a sort of mistake, there seems little more to be said.
Now though Santayana thought the experience of beauty could be profound or could even be the meaning of life, this account appears to make beauty a sort of mistake: one attributes subjective states (indeed, one's own) to a thing which in many instances is not capable of having subjective states.
Some even wonder if it's a sort of mistake.
I made a different sort of mistake.
"As good a side as they are, we felt we gave them quite a few cheap points, and against a side like South Africa... they are going to capitalise on any sort of mistakes you make," he said.
Throwing a puck blindly toward the center of the ice, where there is almost always a defender, is the sort of mistake a minor-leaguer might make, but is unacceptable in the N.H.L.
Providing an accurate e-mail address to the seller of a vehicle you intend to use as a murder weapon is the sort of mistake that might get a person's membership card pulled down at the terrorist union hall.
By Steve Coll May 4, 2010 Providing an accurate e-mail address to the seller of a vehicle you intend to use as a murder weapon is the sort of mistake that might get a person's membership card pulled down at the terrorist union hall.
and which means that there is almost never either a just verdict or a judicial error but a sort of harmony between the mistaken idea the judge has of an innocent act and the guilty facts of which he is unaware.
