Sentence examples for positively wrong from inspiring English sources

"Wouldn't that tell you that something is absolutely and positively wrong with the system?" he asked.

It was Coolidge in 1925 who said: "The business of America is business"; Kennedy who in 1961 told the world, "Ask not what America will do for you"; and today's Republicans who have a "Contract with America .As those examples also show, our reader has no point at all in the reason he gives for thinking America positively wrong; viz, that, necessarily, it signifies the entire new world.

"This young man has done absolutely, positively nothing wrong," Jarvis said.

The issue was literally black and white, and we [white southerners] were absolutely, positively on the wrong side".

As concatenation has been shown in simulations to be statistically inconsistent and to positively select the wrong species tree under certain circumstances (e.g. [ 25- 28]), species tree approaches, such as *BEAST, might be expected to provide a better estimate of the phylogeny of Cettiidae than concatenation.

That is why all of those eighteenth-century hopes about progress and doing things in our own right were not just wrong but positively harmful.

None of them would say positively that there was anything wrong with the animal's wind, or that there wasn't.

An incorrect name is positively misleading because it may link real data to the wrong taxon.

In the positive condition, all sentences resolved positively (e.g. 'having an intrusive memory means nothing is wrong with me'), whereas in the control condition, half resolved positively and half resolved negatively (e.g. 'having an intrusive memory means something is wrong with me').

I've had people respond to an invitation positively, and then show up on the wrong night -- which is another reason to follow up.

People respond positively to someone admitting when they're wrong, and attempting to rectify the situation.