Sentence examples for was surely correct from inspiring English sources

Angus Wilson was surely correct in describing it as "one of the great popular works of art of all time, rightly seized upon by film, stage and television producers, rightly made the prey of pop composers".

Mr Powell was surely correct to detect that an explosion of patriotism, from yellow ribbons tied round trees to ubiquitous "These Colors Don't Run" bumper-stickers, included a dose of apology to soldiers scorned when coming home from Vietnam.

But since people arrested are identified by their fingerprints, the dissent was surely correct that the law's real purpose was investigation: "The DNA is taken because there is a possibility that the DNA may help solve some other crime".

The chief executive of the average FTSE 100 company can now expect to receive 150 times the income of the average worker, a gap that May was surely correct to call "irrational" and "unhealthy" in her pre-leadership speech in Birmingham.

It is almost too much to absorb at once; yet Richard Burton, who was originally cast in the omniscient role of First Voice, was surely correct when he observed: "The entire thing is about religion, the idea of death and sex".

Again, the reviewer was surely correct in their previous paragraph when they suggested that it is just that different effects of stimulation are more visible or detectable, using the very indirect indices of neural activity furnished by fMRI and TMS, depending on subjects' cognitive state.

And he is surely correct.

This assessment is surely correct.

About that Rob is surely correct.

But they are, surely, correct in their speculations.

Now, he argues, the problem has come home, and he is surely correct.