Sentences with phrase «wrong end of the telescope»

I think that's looking through the wrong end of the telescope.

I retain a memory of him from that occasion, an image at once vivid and tiny, as if seen through the wrong end of a telescope: Hyung Goo, very slight and sober, talking quietly and deliberately about his father's absence from the family when he was young.

Its legal representative at the inquiry, Neil Garnham QC, told Lord Justice Leveson that critics of the police were in danger of «looking at this through the wrong end of the telescope», as it was far from clear private investigator Glenn Mulcaire's notes that a large number of people were victims of phone - hacking.

Calls for mass membership are looking through the wrong end of the telescope.

It was like I was looking at it all from the wrong end of a telescope.

He would be able to look at his failed relationship as if through the wrong end of a telescope.

And when he asks who asked for this technology, he's looking at it from the wrong end of the telescope.

He writes, «I felt a sensation like seeing oneself from miles above the earth or looking at one's reflection in a mirror through the wrong end of a telescope.

Like the wrong end of a telescope.

You can have as many scientific qualifications as you like but they won't help your perception of reality if you are looking through the wrong end of the telescope.

This is unfortunately the wrong end of the telescope.

And yet it struck me, when I was working on those guidelines, that we were perhaps looking in the wrong end of the telescope.

One is that judges» experience focuses on the end results of trial preparation and they therefore look at the matter through the wrong end of the telescope.