Even the tabloids have failed to dig up any nastiness.
When the band adopted a walking swing tempo for "You Are Too Beautiful," he failed to dig in, phrasing in a disconnected haze.
The education select committee said Ofsted had either failed to "dig deep enough" or the schools deteriorated so quickly its reports became rapidly out of date.
He said he foresaw a return of support for the rebels "if Ankara fails to dig deeper into this event and punish wrongdoers in the harshest way, without any tolerance or delay," referring to Turkey's capital.
Apart from the political turmoil, Mr. Strauss-Kahn's arrest has caused some soul-searching, especially among the French news media, about whether they had failed to dig deeply into Mr. Strauss-Kahn's sexual history.
In the first game of the match, Sampras served a double-fault, punched a backhand volley long and failed to dig up a half-volley on his way to being broken on a running forehand winner drilled down the line.
We wuz misinformed (from a tart Humphrey Bogart line in "Casablanca") by financial media that failed to dig into rosy press releases or challenge the celebrity culture that made dot-com demigods out of financial half-wits.
Some of the Labour-supporting blogs are exultant that the panel has failed to dig up any new dirt about the egregious Lee Jasper, someone else who should stop issuing press releases and get a life.
Ms. Coleman fails to dig beneath the surface of Rachel's elementary grief, anger and loss; the character's feelings are amply displayed, but there is little sense of nuance or delicacy in their expression.
