Sentence examples for failure of something from inspiring English sources

We feel in the silence a sense of failure, of something gone unexpectedly wrong, of following directions to nowhere.

He seems to have the exterior perfection that Marie and Walter wish for, and yet he feels some kind of interior disability, a failure of something within him.

We don't want to be part of the failure of something for which we're not responsible.

You may become annoyed when Photoshop crashes, but you're much more likely to take personally the failure of something that talks to you like a human, even when you know it's just an automated system.

And if people don't respond – retweet, like, favourite – have I boomeranged back again, committing the greater failure of sharing something not worth sharing in the first place?

Commercial-bank reserves grew from $50 billion at the time of the Lehman failure to something like $800 billion by the end of the year.

That something is a failure of the will, something no important candidate for public office can have.

"I like the failure, the sadness of something being so great.

After the failure of "Una Vita," something happened that changed Svevo's life.

That spring, as I tried to cope with the dreamy unreality of success and the continuing failure of my health, something began to change in Borden.

Her wrongness is to suppose that the failure of will is something imposed on noble and courageous governments by liberals, the BBC, and other "enemies of the west".