Sentence examples for screwups from inspiring English sources

But my general attitude in interpreting what appear to be bizarrely aggressive moves is that they're likely to represent screwups, snafus, and underlings' fear of disciplinary action for insufficient vigilance.

This boss figured that the station had less to fear from periodic screwups than from the day-in, day-out paralysis of someone too cowed by choice to choose at all.

But in the library of erasures collected at Politwoops, we find more mundane screwups that allow us to see politicians as they nearly would have let us.

She did not want any screwups of any kind.

He liked the idea of Odysseus coming home after all his wanderings and screwups and setting things right, taking back his woman and his house, no discussion, no messing around.

In the scene, Mason confesses girl trouble, and his father offers the compromised reassurances of a guy calloused by years of screwups and broken promises.

He has also drafted the Baileys in defending the C.I.A.'s human-intelligence program: "Had Joe and Eileen been in the room after the hum-int screwup, they would not have indulged in the blame game, gutted the human-intelligence program, or weakened America".

Pauline, a lifelong screwup, resents Margot's habit of dropping incidents from the family's life into her fictions.

Going into the weekend, the Mittster is left hoping for one of the two things I mentioned at the start: an unexpected last-minute swing in his favor, or a monumental screwup on the part of the pollsters.

Gardner conceded that the occasional screwup is inevitable.

(Parker argues that the grungy-bohemian idea was a cliché, and that "it felt like it would be too easy to write Ally off as a screwup if everything about her is a mess — if she's just the female equivalent of a man-child").