Sentence examples for a confession of failure from inspiring English sources

These speeches are, in part, a confession of failure.

They're full-on, 24/7 fathers, for whom "spending time with their family" isn't (as for disgraced politicians) a confession of failure but an active choice.

And she wants to understand why being housed by the state has come to be seen as a confession of failure.

Bunting himself looked down on annotations: "Notes are a confession of failure, not a palliation of it," he wrote, introducing the few notes to his 1968 "Collected Poems".

It is a typical Garner sentence, a writing lesson (all novels should end as completely) and a life lesson: spare, deserved, and complexly truthful, both a confession of failure and a small song of success.

Since no country knows how to reduce emissions without cutting growth, those words have to be taken as a confession of failure.

As Al Manheim, Sammy's Boswell put it: "Sammy always made you feel that any confession of failure was on level with admitting that you had a yen for nothing but female dogs and ten-year-old corpses..."...

The bankruptcy process, Zywicki says, "became more of a business tool as opposed to a disgrace; more of a business strategy as opposed to a confession of abject failure".

In his last major speech before the election campaign, Mr Cameron made a remarkable confession of failure over his party's ability to get its message across.

This would imply an American confession of failure.

It was an open confession of failure".