This sad collection of misfits is at cross-purposes. From Wordnik.com. [Fern Siegel: Stage Door: Theater Reviews] Reference
And we seem to be, I think, at perhaps cross-purposes. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Clinton Pardons: Former Clinton Aides Testify Before House Government Reform Committee - March 1, 2001] Reference
"They're working at cross-purposes," Mr. Donohue said. From Wordnik.com. [CME Chief Sees Contradiction in New U.S. Futures Oversight] Reference
Or it can work at cross-purposes to those other efforts. From Wordnik.com. [China's Pakistan Test] Reference
"If I had known we were at cross-purposes!" he exclaimed. From Wordnik.com. [Adrien Leroy] Reference
And I guess some of them must be working at cross-purposes. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 12, 2009] Reference
There was no room for cross-purposes or disturbing thoughts. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
It makes no sense that we should be working at cross-purposes. From Wordnik.com. [MINISTER BALFOUR'S BUDGET VOTE SPEECH: NCOP] Reference
He became conscious of the fact that they were at cross-purposes. From Wordnik.com. [Colorado Jim] Reference
How do you sort of explain your own sort of cross-purposes there?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 28, 2005] Reference
"Monsieur, how idle are these cross-purposes!" she said, folding her fan. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859] Reference
With a view to avoiding cross-purposes there is nothing like economy of speech. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875] Reference
But don't "high quality" and "affordable" operate at cross-purposes to each other?. From Wordnik.com. [Russ Wellen: Universal Health Care Doesn't Mean We're Entitled to All the Health Care in the Universe] Reference
It would appear that the police and the enumerators are working at cross-purposes. From Wordnik.com. [Christine Schanes: Homelessness Myth #3: Unsheltered People Only Count At Night] Reference
Had she and Pia simply been playing a quite amazing game of cross-purposes that evening?. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
With its European and Iranian policies at cross-purposes, Washington will not be amused. From Wordnik.com. [Pepe Escobar: Jumpin' Jack Verdi, It's a Gas, Gas, Gas: Iran and the Pipelineistan Opera] Reference
Instead, the GAO finds there is overlap, disarray and agencies working at cross-purposes. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 13, 2006] Reference
But it failed to win anything, in part because the two sides were working at cross-purposes. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Global Public Relations] Reference
Under the main theory, the murders of Valerie Simpson and Pavel Menansi were at cross-purposes. From Wordnik.com. [Drop Shot]
In the Black Hawk War, Captain Lincoln came to cross-purposes with the regular army commissariat. From Wordnik.com. [The Lincoln Story Book] Reference
And even here in the U.S., federal immigration law and Florida state family law now seem at cross-purposes. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 15, 2000] Reference
One conversation, held several years later, may be recorded as a specimen of these continual cross-purposes. From Wordnik.com. [Surprised by Joy]
On the other hand, global economic distress doesn't invariably work at cross-purposes with American interests. From Wordnik.com. [America Will Remain the Superpower] Reference
Often there is a mix — policies are chosen for a wide variety of reasons, and can even run at cross-purposes. From Wordnik.com. [Global economy] Reference
When people are stuck in their own heads, you may say X but they hear Y, and then everyone is at cross-purposes. From Wordnik.com. [Alex McCord: Covering Rashes & Creating Your Brand] Reference
A disorienting suspicion that they were talking at cross-purposes assailed her — yet she was sure they were not. From Wordnik.com. [The Ideal Bride]
"But how is it he's a seed you if you haven't a seed he?" said Joan, fairly puzzled by this game of cross-purposes. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880] Reference
If we could be shut in sense and surface, Nature would seem a game of cross-purposes, every creature devouring another. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864] Reference
Q Could I ask just a question about whether or not Japan and the U.S. at this visit are -- talking a little bit of cross-purposes. From Wordnik.com. [Background Briefing On Japanese P M Murayama Visit] Reference
History is littered with technically awesome but very dead platforms that put themselves at cross-purposes with the tide of demand. From Wordnik.com. [Adobe’s Flash Not Good Enough for Steve Jobs] Reference
We'd thought that the action and the romance were working at cross-purposes, but in fact the action has ended up selling it to women. From Wordnik.com. [Pass Me An Oscar] Reference
Extortion and Corruption Along the U.S. Supply Chain in Afghanistan, shows we are working at terrible cross-purposes in Afghanistan. From Wordnik.com. [Ralph Lopez: The Real Story Behind Time's Afghan Woman Cover: American Complicity] Reference
As a result, federal agencies, even those with similar mandates, are managing the same ecosystems differently, often at cross-purposes. From Wordnik.com. [Npr Monograph On Environmental Management] Reference
But a new study says U.S. law enforcement agencies working overseas sometimes are at cross-purposes, actually hurting the war on terror. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 1, 2007] Reference
Punishment serves to limit naturally selfish tendencies at cross-purposes with cooperation and, more importantly, survival of the species. From Wordnik.com. [Marilia Duffles: Minding The Heart Is Jurisprudent] Reference
Appraisals try to accomplish so many functions at the same time and those functions often cross over each other and work at cross-purposes. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Saturday Morning News: Do Yearly Performance Appraisals Help Employers or Employees? - January 13, 2001] Reference
That is why I often find myself at such cross-purposes with the modern world: I have been a converted Pagan living among apostate Puritans. From Wordnik.com. [Surprised by Joy]
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