Sentence examples for not nearly as wrong from inspiring English sources

For a crime that does not involve an identifiable victim beyond the disembodied securities markets, defendants seem to be able to convince themselves that they really are not doing anything wrong, or at least not nearly as wrong as someone like Mr. Madoff and the corporate executives who destroyed their companies through accounting fraud.

Abdellatif Kechiche's Palme d'Or winner does a lot of things right, but not nearly as much as it does wrong, including its inability to portray and obsess over women in a sickening and sexualized manner.

But a flat line is not nearly as deadly as one moving in the wrong direction.

But it's not nearly as odd when our watch displays the wrong time or our window blinds are out of sync.

As might be guessed, the comments on the positive reviews say the reviewer is wrong and the Fire is not nearly as good as asserted, while the comments on the negative reviews say the reviewer is wrong and the Fire is not nearly as bad as suggested.

In several reviews, you could make out an obvious subtext bound up with the fact that many people had (rightly) thought that (What's The Story) Morning Glory? was not nearly as good as Definitely Maybe, but been wrong-footed by its sky-high sales figures.

While not nearly as rigorous as real-life experience — things in combat always go wrong that haven't been practiced before — these exercises at least allow for experimentation, precisely because much less is on the line.

Not nearly as well thought of is Caligula, whose excesses remain memorable for all the wrong reasons.

Nevertheless, these earlier objections had not really grown legs, perhaps because Chagnon had forcefully responded to claims he saw as untrue and wrong-headed (Chagnon 1989), or perhaps because the objections were not nearly as sensationalistic as Tierney's would turn out to be.

Who was wrong — and on which pitch? Advice: use it even more judiciously than Fox does, and not nearly as often as TBS does, only in HD.

The reality was not nearly as neat.