Sentence examples for striking mistake from inspiring English sources

The report concludes that this error is unlikely to have been key to the cement failure, but it is a pretty striking mistake and others will likely differ on its significance.

I suspect most viewers will think the playwright has made a striking mistake by separating scenes with quick blackouts that are variations on crude jokes about doctors euphemistically delivering death sentences, but even those missteps are not uninteresting examples of the chances this writer will take.

We owe the special nuance of the word "innocent" to a striking case of mistaken identity.

Others noticed inconsistencies in dates or striking similarities between spelling mistakes made by Kaycee and those made by Ms. Swenson on her own Weblog site.

British poet Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote that the evening sky was "more like inflamed flesh than the lucid reds of ordinary sunsets". In Poughkeepsie, N.Y., firefighters were dispatched after one resident mistook the striking sunset for a fire in the distance.

Loic Remy then wasted a golden chance to score Newcastle's second, striking well wide after Gazzaniga's mistake.

She has more in common with Blair, too, than she thinks – in her Chilcot appearance it was striking how blame and perfidy and mistakes lie anywhere but at her door.

The role of talk about "mistakes" in the rhetoric of the debate was particularly striking when Mr. Bush intoned, and repeated, that no one will follow a president who says the war was a mistake.

The work includes chapters on sophisms, with the justification that "examples of mistakes to be avoided are often more striking than the examples to be imitated" (Bk. III, xix).

Mourinho denied that he made a mistake in not ensuring that Chelsea had better striking options available to them after failing to prise Wayne Rooney from Manchester United last summer.

In a statement posted on Nasa's website on Tuesday, scientists admitted the satellite data was so striking they thought at first there had to be a mistake.