Sentence examples for fail to be struck from inspiring English sources
I could not fail to be struck by the humour, dark though much of it is.
Thumbing through the catalog of John Virtue's North Sea paintings, one cannot fail to be struck by the kinship in spirit with Houthuesen's work.
No middle-aged professional Western woman can visit a country like Bahrain and fail to be struck by the sparsity of her female contemporaries in public.
Even a casual reader of Clarke's fiction cannot fail to be struck by the fact that its animals, robots, and aliens often appear to be more human than the human beings.
No one who – from the standpoint of the early 21st century – follows the course of the summer crisis of 1914 can fail to be struck by the contemporary resonances.
GO TO any recent meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF), including the one in Davos, Switzerland, last week, and you cannot fail to be struck by the yearning in the corporate world to be a good environmental citizen provided that it does not cost the earth.
"In their search for truth and justice I have never failed to be struck by their extraordinary dignity and determination".
When she neared the end of her trip and had failed to be struck down with anything slimming, she opted to literally lick the sole of her shoe in the hope of remedying this.
During his relatively brief reign between the wars as America's most innovative museum director, no one who met him failed to be struck by his intelligence, energy and charm.
Longfield says she finds the media's often negative portrayal of social work very troubling: "When I go out and talk to people in local areas, which I try to do most weeks, I never fail to be convinced and struck by the commitment social workers have.
