If she missed - and wasn't thrown off into the dissonances that flanked every star road, marked here by the astronomical bodies hovering in the clouds - she could probably meet the next ring.... But it would still be an unbearably amateurish mistake.

Not long ago, Aiello recalled the time when Tyson, then still a contender, made an amateurish mistake during a gym workout in New York.

It would doubtless be a very well-staged suicide; Haroche had lots of practical experience in such things, and would not make amateurish mistakes.

Both camps have had impressive moments, they said, but prosecutors have lacked passion and defense lawyers have made amateurish mistakes.

The outer edges of the primary mirror were seven hundred-thousandths of an inch too low, an amateurish optical mistake.

The Cubans, he confesses, were overconfident and made amateurish mistakes.

He had been too long in the deadly game to make amateurish mistakes.

She remembered the shock from the windowsill, and the consternation she had felt over committing such an amateurish mistake.

If she were, she wouldn't have made so amateurish a mistake.

It was an amateurish mistake.