Sentence examples for seemed wrong for from inspiring English sources

And B has always seemed wrong for me.

It seemed wrong for Oxfam to foot the bill for what was, basically, psychiatric treatment.

(If only diners dressed for the occasion; the cargo shorts and T-shirts many wore seemed wrong for the place).

However, some education advocates said his approach seemed wrong for complex problems facing Buffalo's schools, which include high dropout and expulsion rates.

"Boyfriend" seemed wrong for an urbane man of forty-five who carefully slipped off his wedding ring before he touched me.

"It once seemed wrong for liberals to emphasise the fact that some blacks were doing well in sport and music, because they were marginal activities in which few people were involved," says Tariq Modood, a professor at Bristol University who was one of the editors of "Ethnic Minorities in Britain", published last year by the Policy Studies Institute.

Although the Spaniard is potentially a very good manager, he and Wigan seem wrong for each other.

Into this mess walks Geithner, a bright man who was nonetheless, it seems, wrong for the job.

It seems wrong for me to be assaying "Under the Volcano" for the first time in a dry New England town, where I am ostensibly on vacation.

It was the first comic book to win a Pulitzer Prize, and it changed the way comics — the term seems wrong for "Maus" — are viewed in America.

"Paradox" seems wrong, for want of any apparent doxa to contradict, and so does the idea of a response "set in motion".