Brown made a quintessential chattering class mistake of thinking that the business of journalism was about expertise, talent, or prestige instead of about scale.
Mr. Obama could make some world-class mistakes; the Clinton machine could land some attacks more devastating than its withering critique of his kindergarten paper.
The film "is so good and strong that even those things in the movie that strike me as being first-class mistakes are of more interest than entire movies made by smoothly consistent, lesser directors," Vincent Canby wrote in The Times in 1969.
It was a mistake – a monumental, world-class mistake.
When we learn that a cook employed by the Peace Corps in India, who's alone and dying of alcohol poisoning, reminds himself "how nice it was that he could see the stars in their thousands at this monsoon time of year," it seems the author has exceeded the limits of his poetic license — or has made a basic creative-writing-class mistake about point of view.
But as I said in this collection of predictions about where "Mad Men" will end up, my hope for the man is that, as he goes forward, he makes a better class of mistakes.
I don't care if Don's employed or rich or even married: If he's learned something about himself and learned to make a better class of mistakes, and if he's able to find some joy in his work and sustain real connections with those who know him best, that will be a fitting and fine ending.
White, middle class makes mistake - only sympathy on offer.
They regularly offered up comical tips for avoiding a similar fate, even though they knew there was no chance I would follow in their footsteps, since the whole point of being a college boy was to put yourself in a situation where you could make a much better class of mistake with your life.
8.20pm BST Unpicking France's goal via slow-mo replays: England mistake, England mistake, England mistake, England mistake, Le Sommer class.
Writers of real grammars do not class mere spelling mistakes as grammatical errors.
