Sentence examples for fails to throw off from inspiring English sources
Capote's best fiction is true to his queerness, and it's weakest when he fails to throw off the mores of the only gay male model he probably knew when he was growing up in Louisiana and Alabama: a melancholy, arch, mired-in-nostalgia-and-honeysuckle queen named Cousin Randolph, who "understands" Zoo because her reality doesn't interfere with his narcissism — at least he wasn't that.
In the credit market, bond prices declined in mostly light trading, as the market failed to throw off its recent torpor and was unmoved by economic developments.
But this evasiveness fails to throw his biographer off the scent.
His jovial mood is such that even the attentions of the Inland Revenue have failed to throw him off his stride.
It hoped, but failed, to throw the major out again.
However, Tomita twice failed to throw another football player named Tipton using tomoe-nage (stomach throw).
The failed bid by prime minister Antonis Samaras to throw off the yoke of international supervision by prematurely exiting the bailout programme has also vitiated his fragile government's appeal.
Occasional movements to throw off the albatross failed miserably.
In this study, another normalization will be carried out to throw off these signal variations.
Tragedies are history to throw off, a roadblock to progress.
