Sentence examples for wrong emphasis from inspiring English sources

It actually had the wrong emphasis.

Yet even by more modest standards, it has ended up with the wrong emphasis.

It's the wrong emphasis, really, because the Bravermans are more interesting than the sum of their plights.

Of course, all these Sunday school years, we have collectively been reading the giant-killing myth with the wrong emphasis.

And in a world where children face such horrors as forced labour, sex trafficking and military conscription, devoting energy to outlawing parental smacks may strike some people as the wrong emphasis.

More liberal-minded white people are often so terrified of saying the wrong thing, the wrong way and with the wrong emphasis that they seem to jump from one wet rock to another, twisting and turning to stay upright.

He was not a great speaker, and tended frequently to place the wrong emphases within his sentences, perhaps due to the fact that he had never totally gotten used to the necessities of public life.

We are still getting it wrong; our emphasis needs to be curing the chronic social ill of racism and not merely spot-treating it.

To avoid participants feeling that there were right or wrong answers, emphasis was placed on questions starting with "How" and "What" and explorative questions.

A. O. SCOTT I don't think I've ever had a full 180-degree reversal of opinion about a movie, but from time to time I've been conscious, in retrospect, of getting the nuance or emphasis wrong, of over- or under-rating a film or not expressing my sense of it as clearly as I should have.

The debate on who will outspend who perhaps the wrong point of emphasis as noted by Chris Murphy's -- editor of InformationWeek -- recent post.