So Lerner offers conundrums like poetry's "usefulness depends on its lack of practical utility," and Zapruder describes a poem as "making meaning by failing to fully make meaning".
Since the school was set up two years ago – on the site of two neighbouring (but failing) comprehensives – the meaning of this "front foot" has changed.
After a few years of failing to find meaning in the more commonly recommended venues I learned that I could find it in geology, so I did.
For if yi (thought) were speaker's meaning, then what speakers say could not fail to agree with their yi, and if it were literal meaning, then failing to conform to it would show only that the speakers use words incorrectly, not that they are untrustworthy.
"What?" Teacher Fei asked, failing to understand his meaning.
The modern sense of misplacing an object appeared later, in the thirteenth century; a hundred years after that, "to lose" acquired the meaning of failing to win.
In addition, parole officers are quicker to revoke a newly released inmate's parole for minor violations, like failing a drug test, meaning more inmates are returned to prison time and again, creating what some experts say is a self-perpetuating prison class.
Some govern other goal-frustrating moves arguers can make in the course of settling a difference of opinion, such as mis-allocating the burden of proof, asking irrelevant questions, suppressing a point of view, or failing to clarify the meaning of one's argumentation.
It gives a whole new meaning to failing up.
I went home in December then my exams of the first term were in January and throughout all this time besides going home to my family I really did not go out anywhere [Alice] She felt that the culture at Medical School was such that it was difficult to discuss failing with other students, meaning that she ended up working for resits alone.
Graph Search also tends to be too literal, often failing to discern the broader meaning of specific data points.
