Sentence examples for brilliant failure from inspiring English sources

Some see Bouvard et Pécuchet as a brilliant failure, but its sheer ambition is extraordinary: to encapsulate all knowledge, and to dismiss it.

If the aim of singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright's collaboration with super-producer Mark Ronson is to bring mainstream popular success to one of contemporary music's most exuberantly gifted eccentrics, Out of the Game must be judged a brilliant failure.

This communication seems to us notable for a characteristically legal disinclination to commit itself as to the virtue of a rival, for its implication that Harvard has finally reached a perch that Yale has long been accustomed to, & for its brilliant failure, while exuding approval, to provide anything that the Harvard Law Record could possibly quote to advantage.

A brilliant Devoto break and less brilliant failure to pass to Matt Banahan outside him nevertheless set up Ford for his second penalty, before a brilliant Semesa Rokoduguni break set up the position from which he later scored off Ford's cut-out pass.

He realized that this project was a sort of brilliant failure back then, because the technology simply did not exist.

"Though I love brilliant failures, I hope this will be a success," Iske says.

The brilliant failures, the idiosyncratic minor classics, the good, solid novels by dependable mid-list authors — these are essential to a healthy literary culture, and it would have been good to hear about some of them.

As if to underscore that message still further, the theme of this year's event is 'Brilliant Accidents, Necessary Failures and Improbably Breakthroughs' which, for the first few hours of day one, translated as 'why things you might have seen at TED are bullshit.'.

They are just brilliant enough for stylish failure.

Pedro Reis, recently named among Popular Science's "Brilliant Ten," is turning failure into functionality.

When a helicopter ferrying several ophthalmologists went down in a remote area of Nepal because of an engine failure, Dr. Brilliant used the Apple II to set up an electronic chat using a primitive modem to help figure out how to salvage the helicopter.