If Obama fails to move some very huge mountains -- a new energy policy, reforming our horribly failing schools, calling on all Americans to serve our country, restoring our healthcare system, ending a misbegotten war, paying down our debt, restoring respect for our country, fixing our economy -- then our country will fail.
The sermon fails to move the marines.
It has driving pace, but it fails to move forward.
He tries and fails to move the skittish Vicky into Helena's old flat.
In a busy, unnamed city, a traffic light changes to green, but one car fails to move.
But the movie quickly fails to move in this human direction, taking flight instead with George's megalomania.
She calls Mr. Simpson one of the "true visionaries," whose wit and genius for color and balance never fails to move people.
"It never fails to move me that we will go into that hospital room, and she will hand us her baby," Simpson says, a catch in her voice.
I go to Shakespeare in performance almost every month, and the authentic singularity of his vision rarely fails to move and impress.
