Sentence examples for crossed purposes from inspiring English sources

Howie and Emily often speak at crossed purposes and their actions towards each other are well-meaning, if misguided.

The staging blends well the original's mix of the heroic and the ironic; even with a number of characters dropped, the complications caused by all the crossed lovers, crossed purposes and cross-dressing still seem acute.

I could talk about our strange, amphibious craft; about the very specific problems attendant upon writing for the crossed purposes of literary readers, readers for the purpose of production, and for the non-reading, watching and listening people sitting nightly in the dark.

Sadly now, the participants' interminable revelations about crossed purposes taps the funny bone.

And so our band of brothers and sisters that should all be the best of friends and teammates, winds up at starkly crossed purposes.

Crossed Purposes : Joyce & Max Kozloff.

Apple was meeting heavy, quality obsessed, political, petty, often unfocused and often working to cross purposes.

"I'm at cross purposes," he lamented.

The two men talk at cross purposes.

Goodman then wrote: "Apols – cross purposes.

Information and meaning work at cross purposes.