Sentence examples for strikes the wrong note from inspiring English sources
Only a histrionic LA riot - unwittingly sparked when Socrates protests against a corrupt, racist policeman - strikes the wrong note.
Perhaps I'm alone in this sentiment, but the whole concept of a list such as this ("ranking" alumni, according to some criteria generated by whom?) strikes the wrong note, especially now.
(Indeed, when a German journalist interviewed me about my novel Are You Experienced?, he began with the question: "So, is this book your revenge on post-colonialist literature?") Though the word "revenge" strikes the wrong note, there is a plausible theory that, for a while, post-post-colonialist literature was flourishing.
That said, the outpouring of left-wing celebration over the death of the woman who gave the British working-class a brutal spanking and wrecked her country's social safety net strikes the wrong note.
Warren Gatland certainly struck the wrong note, at first.
The neighbors, with their false cheeriness, strike the wrong note entirely with her.
It is easy to strike the wrong note – to be too stiff, too casual, or to include a joke that doesn't play.
His trademark preference for casual clothing while facing the press at a hastily convened briefing at the Oxford Media Convention also struck the wrong note with the wider public, who were complaining in record numbers.
In it he acknowledges that there are "unresolved issues over bullying and harassment" of Commons staff and that an email sent out on Friday playing down the significance of the Newsnight revelations struck the wrong note.
For all Jeffrie and Tyler-Moore's earlier protestations that they could have included Diana if they'd wanted, there must have been some part of them that was conscious not to strike the wrong note?
The Democratic Alliance's penchant for striking the wrong note was on display again last week when the party's parliamentary leader, Lindiwe Mazibuko, gave a talk to an audience of mostly young professionals and one of them asked what the D.A. could do to help instill confidence in young black graduates.
