The phrase "a sort of failure" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is not a complete failure but has elements of failure or does not meet expectations.
Example: "The project was a sort of failure, as it did not achieve the desired results, but it provided valuable lessons for future endeavors."
Alternatives: "kind of failure" or "type of failure".
And yet for big credit-rating agencies, it could be argued that both represent a sort of failure.
Unless you're a genius or a fool, you realize that everything you write, however "successful," is always a sort of failure.
He adds: "I said in an interview about 12 years ago that writing about real biographical figures showed a sort of failure of the writer's imagination".
In "Crime and Punishment," Raskolnikov speculates that even the smartest criminal makes mistakes, because he "experiences at the moment of the crime a sort of failure of will and reason, which... are replaced by a phenomenal, childish thoughtlessness, just at the moment when reason and prudence are most necessary".
It is impossible, it seems to me, not to see one's failure here as a sort of spiritual failure".
His two beliefs directly contradict one another, and yet he is not guilty of any sort of failure of rationality; it is impossible for him to ascertain that the two beliefs are contradictory.
Programming is also helping participants of First Code's programs to develop other important life skills, some of which go against Asian cultural norms that frown on any sort of failure.
Instead, Attica should be remembered as a sort of collective failure of humanity, one that could be repeated if the same public and political attitudes -- still much in evidence -- should again be allowed to prevail over what Abraham Lincoln called "the better angels of our nature".
The civil-rights movement helped force through groundbreaking legislation: the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which outlawed discrimination on the basis of race, and the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which used federal supervision to secure blacks' right to vote.These measures broke what Mr Wright describes as a sort of market failure.
He realized that this project was a sort of brilliant failure back then, because the technology simply did not exist.
In 2000 Barton Hamilton of Washington University in St Louis compared the income distributions of American employees and entrepreneurs, and concluded that the latter earned 35% less over a ten-year period than those in paid jobs.Even success can turn into a different sort of failure.
