Sentence examples for the wrong century from inspiring English sources
He was born in the wrong century.
"You're in the wrong century".
You misdate your checks — to the wrong century.
This film is set in completely the wrong century.
At college, he used to regret being born into the wrong century.
Nobody wants to be the party crasher from the wrong century.
And several were scotched by the Dutch cap wearers in number 2, making a stab at Jan Steen – right country, wrong century.
Unfortunately, the servants in today's historical fiction are seldom the bizarre and wry creatures we find in a writer like Ivy Compton-Burnett; instead they tend to be proud souls with democratic sympathies trapped in the wrong class and century.
Right now, what is needed is nothing short of a collective wisdom to correct the wrongs of centuries of foreign meddling in the internal affairs of sovereign lands, combat social and political marginalisation, and build a fair world for all.
In that small conference room, in this port city on the Indian Ocean, diplomats from the European Union are weighing the wrongs of centuries past, the slave trade that made human cargo of millions of Africans and the colonialism that stripped kingdoms of riches and pride.
