Sentence examples for the wrong element from inspiring English sources

Some officials thought surfing "brought the wrong element," Mr. Bolen said.

Some girls and women become "bitter and twisted" or end up involved in drugs or with the wrong element.

A hairstylist friend of mine used to place leather bondage gear in her downtown shop window to scare off what she called "the wrong element," meaning anyone wanting a nice wash and trim.

Bert Cooper extols the virtues of Ayn Rand, Don Draper broods over Frank O'Hara's poetry, and the secretaries at Sterling Cooper furtively pass around an "unexpurgated" copy of "Lady Chatterley's Lover," warning each other not to read it on the train because "it'll attract the wrong element".

At their worst – embodied by James Watt, the secretary under President Ronald Regan who canceled a concert on the mall by the Beach Boys because they attracted the "wrong element" – science has been suppressed or ignored and resources that belong to the American people have been given away to those who saw only short-term profit.

Presenters at last year's MTV music video awards received Che T-shirts in their gift baskets, and the San Francisco company the Wrong Element (whose corporate motto is, "The revolution will be satirized!") put out the "Liberache," a rhinestone-festooned tee bearing a composite of Guevara and his Las Vegas soul mate, Liberace.

"I think you'll see in the next few years films picking up the wrong elements.

Off the court, it means they know who is hanging around and are able to keep the wrong elements away from him".

Bruce Gyory: The polls were right, but the pollsters were looking at the wrong elements in their own numbers, stressing the spread between the candidates instead of the fact that Bloomberg was having a hard time rising above 50percentt.

My paint colours were totally expressing the wrong elements.

What's more, asking trans people about their anatomy or their transition is fundamentally invasive (and in many situations unwelcome) and puts the spotlight on the wrong elements of trans lives.