Sentence examples for seems a mistake from inspiring English sources

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For a man who readily identifies with Peter Pan, attaining the age of seventy (as Spielberg did on December 18th) seems a mistake, somehow.

Given the types of wars we are fighting now and can expect to fight in the future, it seems a mistake to allocate so much more money to ships and aircraft than to ground force modernization.

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Caperton thought to approach him, but the quest for symmetry seemed a mistake.

FROM this viewpoint, government bailouts create moral hazard and therefore might seem a mistake.

He said that he didn't know, but that it had always seemed a mistake to him.

Yet it seemed a mistake to offer so many dances mocking high-society birdbrains on a single program.

When the producers announced they would fulfill his dream posthumously -- Kleban was 48 when he died of cancer 13 years ago -- it seemed a mistake on two counts.

But as always, Williamson's colour palette occasionally jarred, and an emphasis on velvet seemed a mistake, if only because the lovely fabric rarely works in a modern context.

It did seem a mistake, perhaps a sign of the country's innocence in these affairs, that Mr Bush should be hurried to safety in Nebraska in the first instance, rather than to the White House or to the ruins in Manhattan or Washington.

At first, in Bach's Sonata No. 3 in G minor (BWV 1029), this seemed a mistake: balances were skewed, and though Mr. Queyras played energetically, he had to work so hard to keep the cello out front that in the outer movements his playing sounded pressured rather than lyrical.

On the other hand, to the extent that marriage institutionalizes problematic forms of dominance, it would seem a mistake to extend it at all or at least to extend it without significant substantive changes in the institution (Kim 2010).

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