Sentence examples for further off-base from inspiring English sources
He quoted George Santayana, a dead philosopher, then joked that his pet dog was calling on Californians to "bark if you don't like deficits!"Interviewed in his office afterwards, Mr Brown allowed himself to veer further off-base, citing Wittgenstein, Matthew Arnold and Buddhism as he explained his governing philosophy.
By the standards of our present physics, no part of Book 3 is further off-base than Newton's solution for the precession.
Walter Kirn couldn't be further off base, particularly in his conclusion that "you might as well perform" since there's "nowhere to hide".
If by "access" to the stock indexes, the ad means the ability to trade quickly and often on the information we can already receive on the radio, it subtly encourages investors to dart in and out of the market and is even further off base.
But looking only at petroleum, she's even further off base to claim "independence".
Often, the more positive they are, the further off base are their beliefs.
It was Hollywood that decided what, where, when and why a cowboy would shoot another human being, and Hollywood's conception of this reality could not be further off base.
Knowing the truth ahead of time confirmed how off-base this supremely self-confident Sherlock-wannabe was, and served to further reinforce the gag.
Are we completely off-base?
Your sources are off-base.
Allianz calls this estimate "grossly off-base".
