Sentence examples for straightforward mistaken from inspiring English sources

Andrew is a young man from Enfield who has lost three years of his life over what looks like a case of straightforward mistaken identity.

He told reporters that the incident was a straightforward mistake.

Sometimes monumental (an unpleasant grey wall seems a straightforward mistake), sometimes drably painted, it is always too matt, too glitter.

Repeated trials are likely to be better than one-off experiments in this respect: people make fewer straightforward mistakes at the end of 20 reps than at the beginning.

It's not uncommon for straightforward mistakes to be made in security architectures and implementations.

Only one was to correct a straightforward (perceived) mistake.

EW Blakeney, Gloucestershire Ebay blames a "straightforward ­process mistake", although not so straightforward that the company was able work out what to do about it before The Observer got in touch.

From a certain perspective the anti-realist challenges to metaphysical realism appear as straightforward reductios of certain seductive but mistaken a priori views about meaning and mental content.

Art only has to have its own integrity and completeness, which shouldn't be mistaken for the truth, even when a photograph looks straightforward.

In the course of our work we identified a straightforward technical problem that produces an artefact that has been repeatedly mistaken for genuine results, leading to the publication of incorrect conclusions.

As for cases in which individuals are (allegedly) mistaken about their desires, common sense suggests that the Humean has the more straightforward explanation.