Sentence examples for disastrous misstep from inspiring English sources

His disastrous misstep — the joshing blasphemies about Christianity — point toward the anti-Christian side of the French Enlightenment, toward Voltaire's suave pagan ironies and sarcasms.

Haase turned a low-percentage drop shot into a disastrous misstep, popping the ball into the net and dropping his serve to trail 3-0.

Overall, this film does an eminently credible job until, in a disastrous misstep, it rolls the credits – and ends with a naff new song by U2.

But the furore was a distraction from a much more fundamental and disastrous misstep that the Abbott government is unleashing on Indigenous communities across the country.

To pull off such a broad flip-flop of strategy, Spiegel will have to learn to trust the data alongside his instincts, test products widely to avoid a disastrous misstep with the redesign and communicate with the world to boost confidence while Snap's share price sags.

It's too easy to distance ourselves from the kinds of transgressions Saunders craftily alludes to, but the sobering truth is that if we're going to prevent more disastrous missteps our policy makers need these words in 2015 as much as the Khmer Rouge did so long ago.

Of course, optimistic people still get hit by lightning and run over by cars — and too much optimism can result in the highly negative repercussions that often accompany overconfidence, from ruinous financial choices to disastrous political missteps.

The people who are in a position to know why the casino commission would make such a disastrous public relations misstep say the answer lies in another such rivalry, between the commission and the attorney general's office.

And that he could be as vulnerable on this issue as Clinton was on his early, disastrous health care misstep.

"Electing the same people over and over again will give us the same disastrous inaction and missteps we have been experiencing over the last three terms of office," he said in a news release.

At this point in the season, every misstep could prove disastrous; every loss could ultimately be the difference between making the playoffs and spending the postseason sitting home.