The theme of child abuse lingers and is there to underline the overwhelming importance of all that is happening – common or garden-variety unabused loneliness is, of course, nowhere near dramatic enough – but the drama fails to absorb this theme, or to do justice to it.
Incredibly, the F.A.A. failed to absorb the lessons of this experience.
Because Japan's nuclear industry failed to absorb the lessons learned from Three Mile Island and Chernobyl nuclear accidents, "it was this mindset that led to the Fukushima Daiichi disaster".
They fault an Israeli majority that has failed to absorb the pathos of Jewish history.
An even bigger fault, perhaps, is a state apparatus that has failed to absorb the novelty of Israeli nationality.
Among the many groups that have failed to absorb the lessons of the refrigerator are Congress and its new ward, the American auto industry.
He and other current and former employees said the magazine had failed to absorb the energy and freshness of The Daily Beast.
The attorney general made clear that he believes the Justice Department's antiterrorism initiatives are fully in sync with the moral imperatives of God and country -- and that those who disagree may have failed to absorb the lessons of Sept. 11.
In fact, I might have been tempted to bury the obituary in parentheses, like a whisper: "Before Atwater died (of brain cancer, in 1991), he expressed regret …" It would be too bad if we were to get so distracted by the punctuation that we failed to absorb the meaning of the words.
Mr. Milberg said BMW failed to absorb the fact that Rover had not developed any new cars of its own in years, that it overestimated the "emotional ties" of British buyers to the Rover brand, and that it overestimated the competence of Rover's management.
