The trade-off was worth it for the Red Sox, who expect him to wear down pitchers at worst and punish mistakes at best.
Every thinking member of every high civilization — Egyptian, Greek, Hindu, medieval Christian, etc. — probably has or had the tendency to assume that he or she is on the right track philosophically and morally, that all predecessors were mistaken or at best insufficiently enlightened about morality, and further, that all future moralists are likely to be decadent.
That led to an angry retort from Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers, who wrote in a memorandum to Mr. Clinton that such a release would amount to a "substantial policy mistake" and would, at best have a "modest effect" on prices.
The empty acts we mistake for nurturance are at best substitutes for real love and at worst forms of actual abuse.
Today he is largely forgotten, or at best mistaken for the bumbling inspector in the Pink Panther franchise.
By shying away from questioning people's deeply felt beliefs, even the skeptics, Mr. Harris said, are providing safe harbor for ideas that are at best mistaken and at worst dangerous.
The sources were at best mistaken and at worst liars.
Whoever worked out the necessary thickness had, at best, been mistaken.
But American policy has suffered historically from the mistaken belief that Libya was at best a sideshow to whatever else was going on in the Arab world.
While Clinton's mistake could be viewed as arrogant (at best) and de facto reckless, it is crucial for us to avoid finger-pointing at a time where virtually every digital mishap, data-security giveaway and metadata misfire should be looked at as being so many teachable moments.
