Sentence examples for playing wrong from inspiring English sources

But North-South were now playing "wrong way up".

"I don't think you can say that they are playing wrong," Allen said of the Knicks' defense.

The tour included mixed receptions for a stint at Ronnie Scott's, with the British writer and Coleman-sceptic Benny Green penning his famous lines: "By mastering the useful trick of playing the entire chromatic scale at any given moment, he had absolved himself from the charge of continuously playing wrong notes.

"It's like organized disorganization, or playing wrong right.

(It's worth pointing out that Burris is played by James Frain, who has a history of playing wrong-uns).

To lend a modernist charge to the score, Mr. Shchedrin surrounds these lyrical elements with subdued rhythmic ostinatos, blankets of velvety strings, choirs of winds playing wrong-note harmonies spiked with dissonance.

It's less lonely and cold than an organ loft, and you can't play wrong notes!

His mother, Doris, was a concert pianist and his music teacher, Miss Baird, would wrap him across the knuckles if he played wrong notes.

I didn't think I played wrong when I was match points up in the tie-breaker, credit to him for fighting.

I thought, it sounds really good, but he told me it sounds terrible, because there are no dynamics, there is no rhythm, and the notes were played wrong.

"I've tried playing the wrong lineups, calling the wrong stuff.