Sentence examples for he's off base from inspiring English sources

At least the oaf has doubts and acts upon them, but he's off base at first: "The whole thing is a smokescreen," he insists.

John Rosenthal (On Language, Aug. 18) is correct in attributing the defense of "It is I" to prescriptive linguists, but he's off base with "Whom shall I say is calling?" That unfortunate locution has been put into the mouths of scores of butlers by writers who are neither prescriptivist nor descriptivist; they are simply wrong.

He is off base, though, in suggesting that vouchers allowing parents to choose their child's school would affect the curriculum choices in public schools.

Here too, however, he was off base.

In my opinion, she was off base".

It's a noble concept, says Robert Zubrin, president of the Mars Society, a group encouraging humans to explore the planet, but it's off base, he says.

It's not because he likes being off base; he doesn't.

But one reference he made was off base, and Moyers -- a national treasure whose return to TV from premature retirement is cause to rejoice -- did not challenge him on it.

While Mr. Bush has said he was sick to learn the intelligence was off base, he has always defended his decision to invade Iraq as the right one.

But it added, "The question yet to be answered is whether he is speaking from conviction when he claims that the critics are off base or is serving as a frontman for an administration whose activities in this area are sometimes hard to defend".

The question yet to be answered is whether he is speaking from conviction when he claims that the critics are off base or is serving as a frontman for an administration whose activities in this area are sometimes hard to defend.