Sentence examples for spectacular errors from inspiring English sources

Americans are more likely to remember the spectacular errors than the strong showing, Princeton professor Julian Zelizer wrote in 2012, cataloguing the long list of gaffes and unforced errors by candidates over the decades.

He is a fine debunker: for example, his view is that Britain's success in the second world war owed less to Winston Churchill's brilliance and more to managing the war effort by committee, and thus making fewer spectacular errors.

They have made spectacular errors of judgment and are called upon to give advice on public policy.

A spectacular error follows from Tomic – spooning one into the crowd.

Taylor described Clinton's speech as "a spectacular error on her part".

Alas, the latter has gone for a Burton because of a spectacular error in the former.

The spectacular error that Bush, Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld made was feeling we needed a post-9/11 demonstration of war to prove our toughness.

(And I should know, as I was, in a quite spectacular error of judgement, going out with one).

The Philadelphia Mint has been responsible for some spectacular coin errors in recent years, including four new Sacagawea dollar coins on which one face was struck as a Washington quarter.

Surgeons pressed on in the hope of getting better, but in retrospect this "learning curve" looks more like a slippery slope.The inquiry makes almost 200 recommendations on how the system can do better in future and save some of the 25,000 lives that may be lost annually as a result of less spectacular medical errors, such as misprescribed drugs.

Likewise, our presumptive nominee's team continues, even just within the past few days, its well-worn practice of racking up spectacular unforced errors.