wrongheadedness in a sentence
Examples
- Returning to Boston in dramatic fashion after a West Coast lawyer brokered her surrender, she took pains to express contrition, writing from jail, " That I never meant for it to happen cannot excuse the reality that my wrongheadedness, my naivete, and my willingness to break the law resulted in the death of another person ."
- Jimmy Guterman, in his 1986 " Rolling Stone " review of the " Lives in the Balance " album, wrote approvingly of the lyrics of the song : " For Browne, our crimes in Central America are the clearest example of the wrongheadedness of U . S . foreign policy .'Who are the ones that we call our friends ?'Browne asks on the scathingly trenchant'Lives in the Balance'and sadly answers himself :'Governments killing their own . '"