Sentence examples for failed writing from inspiring English sources

I poured in everything: my divorce, my destitution, my failed writing career, my loneliness, my friendship with Roy, and … my newfound love for wine, especially the singularly mysterious pinot noir.

When all else has failed — writing endless letters, involving the local MP — judicial review is the only way of finally forcing the agency to deal with a particular case, he says: "I had a recent client where we were promised a decision by such and such date.

Set in the 1950s, the story follows Murray and Howard, a failed writing team, who are kidnapped and taken to the Soviet Union where they are ordered to fix a Communist propaganda musical.

When Arizona, to take perhaps the most extreme example, first administered its exit tests to 10th graders in 1999, 88percentt failed math, 72percentt failed writing and 38percentt failed reading.

"Turkey's Syria policy has failed," wrote Dogan Heper, a columnist for the newspaper Milliyet.

As Spain became the fourth euro-zone country to be rescued, the wider message of dysfunction seemed clear: "The plan used thus far to fight the crisis has failed," writes Bernd Riegert in Deutsche Welle.

"Today, Rick Wagoner failed," wrote professor Peter Morici of the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business, in an e-mail.

General Washington, unhappy that the operation had failed, wrote a letter that was mildly critical of Destouches.

But when that fails, writing regulations "is a way to get much more substantial throw-weight behind solving the problem".

The first step should be calmly approaching neighbors about a problem, and if that fails, writing a letter.

The formula is simple: when all else fails, write about your failure.