Sentence examples for mortal mistake from inspiring English sources

ElBaradei also spoke out against the "leaderless" vision of Egypt's revolutionary youth, claiming that the failure to delegate authority and produce a unifying set of demands had proved a "mortal mistake".

And when Paterno met Bryant for a national championship, Paterno made some mortal mistakes.

"You have to sit there and watch your client make what you know are potentially mortal mistakes, and that's agonizing".

Last week Mr. Creme visited the Bay Area, and the two men met for the first time, over cookies in a private home in Berkeley, a possible finale in the timely tale of a mortal mistaken for a god.

How did reality become so warped that Wiesel, let alone thousands of lesser mortals, could mistake Madoff for God?

In the straight world, meanwhile, the mortal fear of being mistaken for gay is weakening.

The problem of mortals is that they mistake what they perceive for what there is (and must be).

Yet maybe great directors are entitled to their eccentricities – things which ordinary mortals might consider mistakes.

Hendrik Hertzberg, who was a speechwriter for Jimmy Carter, wrote on his blog at newyorker.com that Mr. Obama's was "not a mortal sin," but rather a "damaging mistake... given that Obama's eloquence and 'authenticity' are so central to his appeal".

Big mistake: though they're fine – no mortal could defile Anyone Who Had a Heart, or Walk on By – they're faceless, and long stretches of the show feel like Burt Bacharach Night on X Factor.

A health and life insurer would attempt to minimize mortal risks to policyholders from any cause, including medical mistakes and could therefore pursue systematic quality improvement efforts.