Sentence examples for looked amiss from inspiring English sources

Unveiled at a party Tuesday night in the dusky boudoir setting of the Kiki shop in SoHo, the collection of lace-embellished, lace-panel, vintage-style slips, kimonos, satin corselets and fancy underpinnings would not have looked amiss on Rita Hayworth in "Gilda".

Normally a flat, balmy pool, there are waves that wouldn't look amiss in Newquay.

Bedding plants or tender perennials would look amiss among the shaggy planting of Alice's garden, but using Geranium x clarkei 'Kashmir White' sets the scene.

The pin is positioned close to the road, with short, steep rough and a cinder path between, and a few feet behind the road is a stone wall that would not look amiss in New England.

His claim that more jobs were created last year in Yorkshire than the whole of France wouldn't look amiss on one of M&C Saatchi's latest Tory posters.

Later, wearing the blond wig, scarlet lipstick and a form-fitting black dress with elevated shoulders that wouldn't look amiss on Dynasty's Alexis Carrington, she sits among some bleacher seats and looks on imperiously, cackling at "Teen Wolf Natashaa.

In those seconds of descent, you enter a science fiction fantasy (these tubes would not look amiss in Tarkovsky's Solaris; is this the route to the escape hatch, anyone?).

Inside the crystal palace that Burberry Prorsum constructs every season in Kensington Gardens there were ornate, flowery art nouveau prints that would not look amiss in Cosmo Kramer's wardrobe.