"If something were to go spectacularly wrong with one of his little investigations..." Her voice trailed off as she thought.
Something had gone spectacularly wrong somewhere: that much was obvious.
Some people put reasons to [the ban] and they turned out to be spectacularly wrong.
Like most of his notorious death sentences, this one proved spectacularly wrong.
Now it appears that Yardeni was not just wrong, but spectacularly wrong.
Can you see that the Ayatollahs and Taliban have got this spectacularly wrong?
Every once in a while, those were spectacularly wrong.
More cynical elements feared it could go spectacularly wrong.
Because as you point out, even the experts can get it spectacularly wrong.
Sometimes friends can get it spectacularly wrong when they try their hand at matchmaking.