Sentence examples for admirable failure from inspiring English sources

But even that was an admirable failure, full of style and ambition, albeit caught up in a swirling and pretentious mess.

On first viewing, at the time of its cinema release, I judged Cloud Atlas (2012, Warner, 12) to be an admirable failure, a brave bash at David Mitchell's demonstrably unfilmable novel.

I have emphasised that Enron had substance and was in some ways admirable, because its failure was not the simple collapse of a house of cards.

The finale is an ambitious failure, admirable but wrong-headed in numerous ways.

Baseball is one place where it is acceptable and even admirable to side with failure.

And the weakness of Marshall's otherwise admirable book is his failure to help his readers bridge that gap.

The reason for the failure of the admirable picture to match even the low estimate?

It's not admirable to take delight in the failure of one's opponents.

It's not admirable to take delight in the failure of one's opponents; but, conversely, fuck 'em.

Just look at Boston Red Sox fans (many of whom I went to college with and got to study in their native milieu, the New England autumn): When their team was cursed and doomed to failure, their loyalty was admirable, even poetic.

Swedes have an admirable capacity to blame themselves for failures of empathy.