Sentence examples for exactly a failure from inspiring English sources

I am not exactly a failure as a singer".

Not exactly a failure – it aired for five seasons – but this late-night Channel 5 staple, based on Luc Besson's typically stylish movie (and produced by a pre-24 Joel Surnow) compensated for its lack of action budget by turning assassination bureau Section One into a head-wrecking psycho-opera shot in the style of German expressionist cinema.

After leaving school she went to the London School of Economics – a period she now regards as a failure if not exactly a waste of time (she took a third in economics).

Both Lucent and Nortel offer network management software that tells a carrier where, for example, he's got a failure and what exactly failed.

According to the Central Organization for Marriage Equality, or "C.O.M.E.," if right-wing conservatives are successful in their decade-long battle to ban same-sex marriages, a failure to clarify who, exactly, the latest version of the bill is specifically seeking to target could mean the new laws would affect straight couples as well.

His "radical" proposal for capital gains taxes puts the level back to what we saw under Clinton, not exactly a time of apocalyptic economic failure.

So there is no point in continuing on exactly the same path that proved to be a failure".

A failure to do so just plays to the hands of exactly these people.

A failure to be impressed, though, is exactly what Yorkshire does give you.

However, a film about mediocrity and failure is not exactly a well-worn route to Oscar glory.

Khrushchev's denunciation of Stalin in 1956, or, more exactly, the failure of the British CP leadership to recognise its significance, transformed the Historians Groupp from loyalists into vocal critics.