Sentence examples for fails to hear from inspiring English sources

This slender novel by the Italian writer Simona Vinci plunges with such stylistic quiet into forbidden territory that one almost fails to hear the barriers collapsing.

He suffers from serious bouts of spousal deafness but never fails to hear me when I mutter to myself on the other side of the house.

One evening, the little duck Ping fails to hear the call in time to return home to the family boat, gets stuck on shore, and has horrible adventures until he finally manages to get home, to a spank, the next night.

This is because the low-pitched roar of motors causes persons with normal hearing to unconsciously raise their voices, while the individual with stirrup fixation fails to hear the low-pitched roar and thus hears better and enjoys the raised voices around him.

A11 Mexico Urges Genocide Review President Vicente Fox said in an interview that if the Supreme Court fails to hear the genocide charges his government has filed against former President Luis Echeverria, he will call for the creation of a truth commission to investigate abuses committed by the Institutional Revolutionary Party.

Yes, we failed to hear hues and see sounds.

It seems I failed to hear it — to listen — back then.

Real NGOs often fail to hear of tenders for service-provision contracts they could fulfil.

After their wedding there were warning bells, even if the new wife failed to hear them.

and do the angels fail to hear or heed or listen to him?

The official in Marlin's pit failed to hear that Marlin was supposed to be held.