Sentence examples for failed careers from inspiring English sources

It is the last resort of failed careers.

His blue-collar characters are crushed by broken marriages, financial problems, and failed careers, but they are often unable to understand or even articulate their own anguish.

On a bureaucratic level, therefore, aid organisations would benefit from fostering a culture in which frugality and a deep affinity for down-and-dirty field work are virtues rather than signs of madness or failed careers.

Nor is young Brown's subsequent history of failed careers, in tanning and farming and real-estate speculation, quite as unusual for the pre-Civil War period as some have tried to make it, in an effort to create an aura of embittered resentment around the man.

Denis Leary responds to criticism of a chapter on autism in his new book "Why We Suck": "The bulk of the chapter deals with grown men who are either self-diagnosing themselves with low-level offshoots of the disease or wishing they could as a way to explain their failed careers and troublesome progeny".

But Sansom's readers may find themselves a little stifled by the uniform layering of small-town pathos, which, like the characters' carpets and wallpaper, seems to come by the yard: the scattering of failed careers, thwarted dreams and delusions of grandeur is such that were any character to get it into his or her head to actually do something, the whole novel would go into shock.

It started out with a failed marriage, then failed career number one, getting fired at jobs to pay for career number one, failed self-esteem due to addiction, bankruptcy etc.

After a failed career at West Point military academy – did anyone apart from his widowed mother seriously think he'd make a soldier?

A green-eyed, 50-­something woman, whom he refers to as his Research Associate, accompanies him with a Moleskine full of facts and the emotional burden of dissatisfaction with her own failed career.

Weinke, who is 28, arrived at Florida State after a failed career in minor league baseball, under the eccentricities of college eligibility rules that allow a hard-boot professional in one sport to remain a pure amateur in another.

September 10 2010 October 3 3 2010 In the first act of Aidan Mathews's drama, presented as part of the 1st Irish Festival, Helen Lindaa Thorson and Charles Greg Mullaveyey), a couple in their late sixties, look back at their life together: a disappointing child, a breakdown followed by hospitalization, a failed career.