Sentence examples for amiss writing from inspiring English sources

I visualise her, in the 1940s, inside this neat, orderly, symmetrical house, creating a comic book called the "We Won't Tell Club", some of the pages invisible, with young Amiss writing: "When it is heated in front of the fire it becomes visible".

It said: 'Justice for Lunatics.'" Amiss wrote: "I think the civil service as a whole is unpopular and that is a reason why I am unpopular.

I tell them how Amiss had written in her diary that she'd left her hairdressers "with the appearance of Reggie Kray".

As Amiss's writing often revolves around her neighbours, I arrange to meet Jenny Rhodes, who lived in the maisonette above Amiss as a child and who, as a student, moved next door, where she still lives.

In a letter to the Lancet, which she signed "AJ Amiss (Miss), Mental Health Survivor", she wrote of how she was "subjected to the indignity of an American-style arrest in Arding and Hobbs [department store] just before Easter".

But the same spendthrift behavior that once assured them when writing checks to invest in Motionloft also eventually led them to believe that something was amiss.

Writing in this month's American Journal of Psychiatry, researchers say that problems identifying aromas may indicate early Alzheimer's, but only when the patients do not realize that something is amiss with the sense of smell.

At the very least, that would tell the political class that something is seriously amiss, because you can't write all those people off.

But they might have been early warning signs, Ms. Coyle writes, that something was amiss in the capitalist Garden of Eden.

And despite his having published the theory in the journal Nature in 1993, I worried that there might be something amiss in his reasoning and never wrote about it.

Altman wrote that even though Ron Reagan felt that "something was amiss" with his father's mind around this period, "considering resignation was never an issue".