This creates an amusing effect because its position in a sentence seems to make it apply to the wrong word.

He is best remembered today for his comment that " There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today " at Jutland, where three of his battlecruisers exploded and sank under German fire exacerbated by dangerous ammunition handling techniques and unsafe propellant.

Beatty is reported to have remarked ( to his Flag Captain, Chatfield, later First Sea Lord in the early 1930s ), " there seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today ," after two of them had exploded within half an hour during the battle.

This seems to me to be another one of Jane Fonda's misplaced ' patriotic ' duties toward the wrong people.

" This should not be confused with the word statistic, referring to a quantity ( such as mean or median ) calculated from a set of data, whose plural is statistics (" this statistic seems wrong " or " these statistics are misleading ").

Critics may respond that this view seems to imply it would be similarly wrong for humans to try to reduce suffering in these ways, a position which few would advocate.

When questioned about his decision to recall Parlement Louis made a comment that, “ It may be considered politically unwise, but it seems to me to be the general wish and I want to be loved .” In spite of his indecisiveness, Louis was determined to be a good king, stating that he " must always consult public opinion ; it is never wrong.

I would love to finish Hitchhiker on a slightly more upbeat note, so five seems to be a wrong kind of number ; six is a better kind of number.

I would love to finish Hitchhiker on a slightly more upbeat note, so five seems to be a wrong kind of number ; six is a better kind of number.

George Jetson: age 34, is a loving family man who always seems to make the wrong decision.

In particular, in the area of petroleum geology, it seems that many in the Western hemisphere are under the impression that the theory of abiotic formation of petroleum, right or wrong, was originated or developed substantially by him, as evidenced by the foreword above, since he often did not properly credit his sources in this area of research ( including this book ).

It superficially seems clear that the resulting extended number system cannot agree with the reals on all properties that can be expressed by quantification over sets, because the goal is to construct a nonarchimedean system, and the Archimedean principle can be expressed by quantification over sets, but this is just plain wrong.

Quoting Kubrick: " To try and fasten any responsibility on art as the cause of life seems to me to put the case the wrong way around.

" It seems to me that online copyright infringement is a legitimate problem, but it seems to me that COICA as written is the wrong medicine.

For most of its running time it is so convincing-and so sure of itself-that it seems a particular waste when it goes dangerously wrong.

Then though Gettier's cases stipulate that Smith has a certain belief and that his belief is true, it seems that in order to propose ( 1 ), one must argue that Gettier, ( or, that is, the writer responsible for the particular form of words on this present occasion known as case ( 1 ), and who makes assertion's about Smith's " putative " beliefs ), goes wrong because he has the wrong notion of justification.

Corruption seems also to have played a major role ; many Chinese shells appear to have been filled with cement or porcelain, or were the wrong caliber and could not be fired.

What is wrong with our sick, neurotic world is that we have been moulded, and an adult generation that has seen two great wars and seems about to launch a third should not be trusted to mould the character of a rat " -- A. S. Neill

The thesis of eliminativism seems to be so obviously wrong to many critics, under the claim that people know immediately and indubitably that they have minds, that argumentation seems unnecessary.

In the season six episode " How the Ghosts Stole Christmas ", a ghost that seems to know the inner workings of Scully's mind suggests that her source of intimacy for Mulder comes from her desire to always prove him wrong.

Professor Welch holds a musical weekend that seems to be an opportunity for Dixon to advance his standing amongst his colleagues, but this goes dreadfully wrong when Dixon gets drunk and burns his host's bedclothes.

William Wimsatt and Cleanth Brooks, it seems to me, have a penetrating insight into the way in which this control is effected: `` For if we say poetry is to talk of beauty and love ( and yet not aim at exciting erotic emotion or even an emotion of Platonic esteem ) and if it is to talk of anger and murder ( and yet not aim at arousing anger and indignation ) -- then it may be that the poetic way of dealing with these emotions will not be any kind of intensification, compounding, or magnification, or any direct assault upon the affections at all.

In fact, I can only say this seems to me to follow from a wide, continuous, and properly guided exposure to literary art.

It is blind, fundamentalist dogmatism to say, `` Messing around with the King James version seems to us a perilous sport at best ''.

This slip is so-called because its semi-ambiguous English always seems to refer to a person's anatomy but never quite means what it seems to say.

The suggestion that in saying something evil had occurred we were after all making no mistake, because we had never meant anyhow to say anything about the past suffering, seems to me merely frivolous.

Instead -- and not just to prove my objectivity -- I hasten to report that it's a highly amusing film which probably does a fairly accurate job of reporting on the Easter vacation shenanigans of collegians down in Fort Lauderdale, and that it seems to come to grips quite honestly with the moral problem that most commonly vexes youngsters in this age group -- that is to say, sex.

Many descriptions of the amphisbaena say its eyes glow like candles or lightning, but the poet Nicander seems to contradict this by describing it as " always dull of eye ".

Laura comments that this information seems needless to say, and her father laughs it off.

Some say that their canonicity seems not to have been doubted in the Church until it was challenged by Jews after AD 100, sometimes postulating a hypothetical Council of Jamnia.

* statements assuming moral rightness or desirability of a state (" she is happy ") with those that verify the difficulty of determining the state (" she smiles a lot, she seems happy, she would say something if her husband made her angry ", etc.

If we should say that no one could possibly know whether water exists a priori, it seems either we cannot know content externalism to be true on the basis of thought experiments or we cannot know what we are thinking without first looking into the world to see what it is like.

FOLDOC goes on to say, " TMRC and the MIT hacker culture of the early 1960s seems to have developed in a milieu that remembered and still used some WWII military slang ( see also foobar ).

He also realized the connection between matrices and determinants, and wrote " There would be many things to say about this theory of matrices which should, it seems to me, precede the theory of determinants ".

We may remark here that it seems unnecessary to hold that because Matthew and Mark say " two days before the Passover ", while John says " six days " there were, therefore, two distinct anointings following one another.

It is impossible today to say who altered the letter e into an i. In Suetonius ’ Nero 16. 2, " christiani ", however, seems to be the original reading ".

This seems rather inevitable in the longer term, though many say Toruń has almost reached the limit of its development within the city's boundary.

" Whatever anyone wants to say about the Unification Church, the marital aspect seems to work ," said Robert Epstein, a research psychologist.

According to a 1974 interview with another eyewitness, Toscanini's words were: " Qui termina la rappresentazione perché a questo punto il maestro è morto " (" Here the performance finishes because at this point the maestro died ") and the English translation of this interview seems to say " Here the Maestro finished ".

At Matthew 5: 40 Jesus seems to say that if you're sued, you should not fight, but rather give up more than was asked for.

seems all I can say.

The Hollywood Reporter wrote of mannerisms " that you'd expect to find in a nightclub impersonation of ", while the London critic, Richard Winninger, wrote, " Miss Davis, with more say than most stars as to what films she makes, seems to have lapsed into egoism.

' And he seems to me, indeed, in touching on these matters, to say with a certain degree of truth, that there are certain others who have wickedly invented another demon, and who have found him to be their lord, as they wallow about in the great darkness of their ignorance.

Even Xenophon, who fails to note his presence at Leuctra, says of his Mantinean campaign: " Now I for my part could not say that his campaign proved fortunate ; yet of all possible deeds of forethought and daring the man seems to me to have left not one undone.