Sentence examples for quite wrong about from inspiring English sources

"I was quite wrong about them.

He was vague about the details, though, and quite wrong about some of them (like his idea that artists "sublimate" sexual energy into their work, which would imply that adultery should be especially rare at artists' colonies).

And yet I believe that he is quite wrong about the implications for the euro crisis, for a couple of reasons, both of which have to do with the possibility of self-fulfilling expectations of default.

This leads to assumptions – quite wrong – about the realistic approach of people who opt for a degree in business or law, say, versus the dreamers and slackers who choose something creative.

That was a long time ago, and in any case I could have been quite wrong about her, though the idea of a kind face at the movies -- surely something of a rarity, then as now -- is one that for me has never entirely lost its appeal.

At least in principle, you might be quite wrong about the tumbling shapes.

Re "Plan for Alexander Statue Too Great for Many Greeks" (news article, Aug. 28), about the proposal to carve the face of Alexander the Great into the side of a mountain in northern Greece: The archaeologist you quote as saying, "It's the quintessential example of what Greek tradition is not about: big," is quite wrong.

And we have come a long way in a fairly short period of time from this notion of exempting defense, which coming from President Obama, the president whom I support on most issues, I thought was quite wrong when he talked about his budget freeze and exempted defense from it.

His ideas about race, although quite wrong, typified the Victorian era, as did his rejection of natural selection.

But thinking about phobias as an illness is quite wrong, says Dr Norris.

Similarly, a tabletop model of the solar system will get some things right about the solar system while getting other things quite wrong.