Sentence examples for the wrong scale from inspiring English sources

Clare notices that David, with his expensive leather coat and exaggerated good looks, is simply the wrong scale for the room.

But the architects decided that four-inch boards were "too coarse — the wrong scale for the kitchen," Mr. Höweler said, so they had the boards cut into thirds.

It is not the real thing, and sometimes it's hard to escape the feeling of walking through a series of maquettes, built at the wrong scale.

In 1981, New York's parks commissioner rejected Christos' proposal, declaring it to be planned for "the wrong place... at the wrong time... and in the wrong scale".

Hermes's aesthetic demands, as well as the problems inherent with scraps - not enough material, the wrong scale for the task - provide Mussard and her team of designers and artisans with challenges that, she says, have transformed their thinking.

Of about the same date are two sculptures of bound prisoners or slaves, also part of the tomb project but never used for it, since in a subsequent revised design they were of the wrong scale.

The Smagorinsky closure dissipates enstrophy at the wrong scales.

As the New York City parks commissioner Gordon Davis summed it up later, the proposal was for the "wrong place, wrong time, wrong scale".By 1991, the rejection had slimmed down to 26 pages.

The latter may include wrong scale factors, time desynchronization, sensor temperature effects and others.

But Camarda Park is the wrong solution: wrong place, wrong scale, wrong price.

In one, God is the size of a microbe and we exist at the wrong spatial scale and so he doesn't know about us.