In no fewer than eight attempts to emerge from assorted divisions through these steely end-of-season tests of nerve and resolve, the Lilywhites have proved decidedly lily-livered, having failed to achieve promotion a single time.
After attempts to jimmy the lock failed, the group gained freedom in a decidedly low-tech way: A workman smashed through a door with a fire extinguisher.
Google, for instance, was part of a successful online protest against SOPA, but failed at influencing the outcome of the decidedly non-tech anti-gay marriage amendment in California.
As soon as they were able, they moved to a very small apartment in a decidedly unstylish Florida neighborhood, my father believing he had failed his father, his wife, and had disgraced his family.
Though the Democrats failed to gain a senate majority, the outcome was decidedly more positive for the party than in other special elections, such as the race for Anthony Weiner's old congressional seat.
During the ceremonies, some of Mr. Bocuse's pronouncements were decidedly Yoda-like ("when you think you have succeeded, you have already failed," he said).
Their efforts failed, as West and Middle Tennessee secessionist votes carried the majority, dragging the decidedly pro-Union East Tennessee into the Confederacy.
Mr. Adler, whose own record label failed, is not so sure; despite Mr. West's celebrity, the demand for spoken-word albums in the youth-driven market of Britney Spears and Eminem is decidedly bleak.
Whatever the outcome of its criminal case, Andersen's prospects are decidedly grim, especially if it fails to find a merger partner.
What makes a writer is a complex but also decidedly black and white list of dos and don'ts that must, at all times, be adhered to without fail.
