Sentence examples for anguish of failure from inspiring English sources
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.
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".
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".
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.
Though Gizzi is speaking directly here to the anguish of certain disparities — all the failures of the so-called old language and the ways it ties us to cruelty, idiocy ("I hate that, when syntax / connects me to the rich," he writes) — the poem works, for me, as a lesson in empathy.
Atychiphobia- Fear of failure.
No team does failure with quite the flair and the anguish of the Los Angeles Lakers.
