Sentence examples for failure hard from inspiring English sources

In essence everyone will suffer the fate of professional chess players, who always know when they have lost a game, have an exact numerical rating for their overall performance, and find excuses for failure hard to come by.

Lacking self-confidence and plagued by ill-health, she was hospitalised several times during the 1950s, and took failure hard, blaming herself in particular for the lack of success of Jean Anouilh's The Lark, in which she starred as St Joan in 1955.

We compare two successful sectors – personal computers and semiconductors – and one failure – hard disk drives.

The program has been underway since 2014 (the acquisition of Ascenta seems to have been its real start) and public since 2015, and had its first test flight in 2016 — resulting in a "structural failure," hard landing and subsequent NTSB investigation.

Such an approach makes learning from failure harder.

Unlike his Real team-mates Zidane was no Norma Desmond - which made failure harder still to take.

IT IS easy enough to point to a government programme, however well-intentioned, and trumpet its failure; harder to pinpoint the cause of the failure.

The pain of a Nigella failure is hard to recover from.

It also put pay to the lie that the only difference between success and failure is hard work and innovation.

"There is a lot of market research before a toy launch, but success or failure is hard to predict," said Jill Krutick, a toy industry analyst at Salomon Smith Barney.

Doing serious time, trying to make sense of the system, the culture of aggression, and acceptance of failure is hard enough without having to cope with demented and unpredictable neighbours going berserk.