Sentence examples for confession of failure from inspiring English sources

This would imply an American confession of failure.

These speeches are, in part, a confession of failure.

The Australian divisions would "strongly resent" the confession of failure that a withdrawal would entail.

His confession of failure is an especially heartbreaking moment in a movie that is full of them.

They're full-on, 24/7 fathers, for whom "spending time with their family" isn't (as for disgraced politicians) a confession of failure but an active choice.

And she wants to understand why being housed by the state has come to be seen as a confession of failure.

Both his confessions of failure and his self-deprecating humor were part of his way of framing issues in personal terms, a trait that also marked his writing and preaching.

But he was a writer who needed recognition and money as much as booze, and if "Gatsby" had sold well it would likely have saved him from the lacerating public confessions of failure that he made in the nineteen-thirties, or, at least, would have kept him away from Hollywood.

At the June 4 SASC hearing, they delivered confessions of failure -- Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey said, "We have become too complacent".

A kind of naive and painfully honest confession of the failure of a man and the total failure of an organisation, a meticulous description of one of the worst betrayals in the history of humanity.

The bankruptcy process, Zywicki says, "became more of a business tool as opposed to a disgrace; more of a business strategy as opposed to a confession of abject failure".