Sentences with phrase «blind alleys followed»

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This detailed account of his life also gives us the opportunity to see behind the man, to follow him not only to his successes but also up the many blind alleys and towards false conclusions: his ambitions, his mistakes and his foibles, his wheeling and dealing, and his disappointments.

She also has the courage and discipline to follow her interests and her intuitions down some blind alleys that lead her toward making something that's not like other people's movies.

A blog is described as «heavily criticised» (by whom I wonder — no don't bother, it was a rhetorical question), and a confusion among the troops ensues by the cleverly inserted link «it was the sun wot done it», which if followed, leads you down a blind alley about the Thatcher election being won by virtue of the Sun newspaper editorials.

John Brookes Following on from your first few paragraphs you could have just as easily written «Science has been up a few blind alleys so why would climate science be any different?»