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He argued with himself about all things under heaven with that kind of wrong-headed lucidity which may be observed in some lunatics.

I have already said that I do not believe that the Duchess would encourage so monstrous an action, but the lad had the most wrong-headed opinions, and it is possible that he may have fled to her, aided and abetted by this German.

The wrong-headed and misguided decision to give the Scots and Welsh their own government was supposed to have one major benefit - that the three countries could make decisions for themselves.

People will do evil things, perhaps out of wrong-headed convictions--as with Ray Danner--or because they are paid well, as were his lawyers.

TONY BLAIR'S plans for sweeping reforms of secondary education were "extraordinarily wrong-headed", teachers' leaders said last night.

"The end product of months of hype and belligerent talk from the First Minister is a mish-mash of half-baked and wrong-headed proposals that will delight young offenders.

I have never expressed or entertained any such feeling, which I would think altogether inappropriate and wrong-headed."

It is a milestone along the dangerous wrong turning that doctors and scientists have been allowed to take in their pursuit of the wrong-headed science of fertility treatment.

But increasingly, it's also an absurdity - because more and more, the inflation paranoia seems wrong-headed. There's no sign of inflation on the horizon, and there hasn't been for the past five years.

But will any of those guilty of this scandalous failure ever even be asked to explain their wrong-headed decisions?

The logic is epic, vague, and basically wrong-headed. But effective, for it's the kind of language and imagery that fueled the Republicans' rise to congressional power for the first time in 40 years.

Shock figures from Intelligent Finance, the internet arm of the Halifax, show that this will be the result if Chancellor Gordon Brown sticks to his wrong-headed decision to slash savings limits.

This autobiography convinces me that our resentment was wrong-headed. Anatoly Dobrynin, the Soviet ambassador to the United States from 1962 to 1986, establishes in these pages that he is one of the great diplomats of modern history, a credit to his country and to a common tradition that spans many centuries.

Roger Ebert, of the Chicago Sun-Times, said, "Daddy Day Care is a woeful miscalculation, a film so wrong-headed that audiences will be more appalled than amused."

Like most academics, he remains less than convinced that campaign money influences public policy to any alarming degree and is skeptical of all wrong-headed or doomed to disappointment.