Sentence examples for a critical failure from inspiring English sources

While the film was a critical failure, his performance was generally well received by critics.

The Motion Picture met with disappointing reviews from critics; a 2001 retrospective for the BBC described the film as a critical failure.

From the start, Iraq was a critical failure of accountability.

An offshoot of a popular West Hollywood restaurant, it drew crowds but was a critical failure.

The novel, now acknowledged as Turgenev's masterpiece, was something of a critical failure on its first appearance.

The trust looked for a deputy chief executive but failed to appoint; with hindsight that looks like a critical failure.

• His latest novel, Wide Field, an epic treatment of German and Prussian history, was a critical failure.

I was tested to my limits and proud of the result, yet it was deemed a critical failure, which I disagreed with.

Apologies for technical problems yesterday: We had "a critical failure of the NFS server" at 9.30am yesterday morning and it threw everything into chaos.

A commercial, if not a critical failure, the film got such a poor public reception that Laughton was never asked to direct again.

They are "designed to dissolve quickly at the beginning of the wash cycle," correcting a critical failure of tablets in the first go-round.