How To Use cross-purpose In A Sentence
- On the contrary, there is a vast shadow of melancholy, a painful sadness, doubt and cross-purpose, boldness at one moment and timidity at the next, a longing for solitude. Half a Rogue
- Some are pioneering new delivery systems that encourage providers to coordinate patient care, rather than work at cross-purposes with little communication. The Time to Innovate Is Now
- The present system of managed floating does contain the possibility of direct conflict if official intervention is carried out at cross-purposes.
- These cross-purpose directives underscore the corn-ethanol conundrum. Robert Howarth: Record Corn Crop Spells More Trouble for Gulf of Mexico Fisheries
- All this, including conversations à trois at cross-purposes, with three-way splutters, is supposed to make the play more interesting but merely makes it all the more annoying.
- Despite what the founders idiotically though, having different aspects of the government working at cross-purposes does not actually make for better governance. Matthew Yglesias » Why A Much Bigger Stimulus Won’t Work
- The brother is driven to despair — he bites his nails, winks, coughs, makes signs, which she always takes up at cross-purpose. — Saint Ronan's Well
- 'I'm sorry, Mrs Want," Crook said, `but I'm afraid we're at cross-purposes. STAGE FRIGHT
- Part of West Africa's quandary is that although its population belts are horizontal, with habitation densities increasing as one travels south away from the Sahara and toward the tropical abundance of the Atlantic littoral, the borders erected by European colonialists are vertical, and therefore at cross-purposes with demography and topography. The Coming Anarchy
- But as we and other organizations have observed, a lack of transparency, visibility, and basic data -- not to mention the lack of a lead coordinating agency for contingency operations -- has caused or contributed to duplication, gaps, and cross-purposes, and has permitted unnecessary incidents of waste, fraud, and abuse. David Isenberg: The State Department Takes Charge: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid
