Sentence examples for failed intentions from inspiring English sources

The play stops short of apportioning blame – nobody comes out of it well – in preference to exploring the uncertain territory where prejudice, damage and failed intentions collide.

His smooth analysis of his own as well as the playwright's utterly failed intentions could serve as a primer for publicists on the art of the con, or in a regional theater context, the stratagem of the artistic con.

Unfortunately, my nocturnal notes were as interesting as someone else's dreams and I soon released them into the muddled stream of disappointment where they joined all my other mal-spawned, failed intentions such as learning ragtime piano, cleaning out storage closet and reading Nicholas Nickelby.

Wright's long-term, though failed, intention has been to capture much higher listening figures by making daytime Radio 3 a far lower-brow service – emulating Classic FM's style and coaxing over some of its listeners.

The USEI also showed evidence for predictive validity over a set of indicators of student academic achievement, courses failed and intention to dropout.

The chapter demonstrates how existing expectations and intentions failed to prevent the failure of those three controls at Buncefield.

" 'W,' George W. Bush, has already distinguished himself by joining the list of North American presidents who have failed in their intentions against the Cuban revolution.

Free basics failed despite good intentions because the company has not earned the trust to be in that position.

He added that Grant's "Quaker Policy", despite having good intentions, failed to solve the real dilemma of the misunderstandings between "the motivations, purposes, and ways of thinking" between both White and Native American cultures.

Dulles took it personally that the Treaty of Versailles failed in its intentions of creating a lasting peace and believed that the treaty was one of the causes of the Second World War.

To further safeguard against the possibility that some subjects failed to consider intentions because they did not understand the probabilistic weighting of the die, we performed a selective analysis of the 14 subjects whose individual patterns of response exhibited at least some sensitivity intentions that is, whose responses were not uniform across all outcomes.