"Cross-purpose" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... read, as is indispensable, with the hours of sending and receipt kept well in mind. No fault can be imputed to either Hooker or Sedgwick, in that the intention of the one could not be executed by the other. The apparent cross-purpose of the despatches is explained by the difficulty of communication between headquarters and ...
— The Campaign of Chancellorsville • Theodore A. Dodge
... sense. Every one knows the meaning of intriguing in common life; namely, the leading others by cunning and dissimulation, to further, without their knowledge and against their will, our own hidden designs. In the drama both these significations coincide, for the cunning of the one becomes a cross-purpose for the other. ...
— Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature • August Wilhelm Schlegel |
