Sentence examples for cause of downfall from inspiring English sources

And, though wraith-like women are often a cause of downfall, Aickman avoids in his stories the misogyny that distorted the adult fiction of his contemporary, Roald Dahl.

These strengths are also the cause of his downfall.

"The attacks saying that Margaretta was the cause of the downfall of John Arden were disgusting.

Hubris is what is often thought to be the cause of the downfall of tragic heroes like Oedipus or Pentheus.

It seems that the cause of his downfall had more to do with his newfound levels of fame and fortune than anything else.

But the immediate cause of his downfall was his inability to help Henry get what he wanted: out of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon.

The indirect cause of its downfall was targeting powerful figures in Silicon Valley, which largely views unions as outdated impediments to technological disruption.

Coriolanus's paternalistic attitude — another primary cause of his downfall — is the characteristic that makes him most unappealing to a contemporary audience.

Playing young Jack Hobbs in place of Sami Hyypia and not, as mooted, Carragher, who was just one booking away from missing next Sunday's important game against Manchester United, was not the cause of their downfall.

He divided up the world with others and gave Greece to the English.' Then I told him what I really thought, that Stalin had been the cause of our downfall, the root of all evil.

(In conjunction with that post he achieved international notoriety when in 1924 the London press published a letter, allegedly written by him, instructing British communists to conduct subversive activities. The publication of the letter was considered to be the cause of the downfall of Britain's first Labour government).