Sentence examples for anguish failure from inspiring English sources

"I talk about solitude, separation, falling in love, anguish, failure, success, children, universal themes that everyone experiences".

She dreamed of making a living out of her writing and successfully describes the anguish of failure - "the utter abysmal hell of rejection" - at one point feeling miserable at failing to win an Observer writing competition.

But, once again, here is an Auster character keen to urge on us, in words of air, the gravity of his motives, the depths of his anguish: "This failure to act is far and away the most reprehensible thing I have ever done, the low point in my career as a human being".

Much of Morris's life was spent in anguish at his failure to solve the fundamental problem of making good design available to everyone.

Oleg Kashin's open letter to president Vladimir Putin and prime minister Dmitry Medvedev is both a personalised cry of anguish about the failure to arrest the man he believes responsible for an attack that nearly killed him, and a searing indictment of the current Russian political system.

Despite her pain and anguish over Israel's failure to foresee the Yom Kippur War, it was Mrs. Meir who possessed sufficient political acumen to resist calls for a last-minute, preemptive strike against those preparing to attack her country.

Various forms of guilt are quite common, such as that arising from (a) the belief that one contributed to the suicidal person's anguish, or (b) the failure to recognize that anguish, or (c) the inability to prevent the suicidal act itself.

James's anguish and guilt over his failure to protect Sarah are conveyed with touching warmth.

It appeared just after Jane died, and a compassionate reviewer attributed its failure to my anguish.

I always feel that much human anguish arises from people's failure to observe the iron law that 1pm is lunchtime.

Oliver Burkeman of The Guardian writes that her characters are typically "struggling to maintain a purchase on normality in the face of some secret anguish or creeping awareness of failure".