Sentence examples for the wrong spirit from inspiring English sources

Second, the show is in the wrong spirit for him.

Norrell has messed with entirely the wrong spirit.

(I could say "fat chance on that one," too, but it's the wrong spirit).

On Sunday, Makana told The Honolulu Star-Advertiser that he decided to stage the protest because the leaders had come to Hawaii in the wrong spirit.

If taken in the wrong spirit, the proposed approach has the potential to erode rather than enhance children's rights.

Mr. Minder said bankers like Marcel Ospel, the former chairman of UBS, had brought to Switzerland "the wrong and harmful banking spirit," learned while previously working on Wall Street.

There's something about the idea of having someone stooped at the feet of a client applying polish to his or her boots that rubs the Gallic egalitarian spirit the wrong way.

Without the calm and positive energy that comes from accessing stillness, I had read him with the wrong mind-set, in the spirit of fear and with a closed heart.

I picked the wrong moment to practice the spirit of openness we were coached on.

But when I get off on the wrong path, I ask the Spirit to lead me back.

The scene takes place at dawn in London after a night on duty at an air-raid post during an air attack; the master speaks in conclusion: From wrong to wrong the exasperated spirit Proceeds, unless restored by that refining fire Where you must move in measure, like a dancer.