Sentence examples for failures of style from inspiring English sources

Clarke's observations about his colleagues are so lame that it becomes impossible to disentangle failures of curiosity and failures of style.

What we can sense about the campaign rather, is an immense failure of style.

This was not an exceptional failure of style: Nadya has sounded like this more recently.

The original "Pitch Perfect," about the travails and triumphs of an all-woman college a-cappella team called the Barden Bellas, struck me as a failure of style arising from an absence of directorial imagination.

With New Labour it was a failure of style: it wasn't just that it moved away from the notion of collective bargaining and fell into a state of toadyish adoration of the City, for many of the unions were out of control and the City at one time appeared to promise a great bonanza for Britain.

If their dialogue, in fact, rings truer than the demotic of the northern and working-class scenes (with their talk of 'barmy buggers' and 'a bit of bread and scrape'), this should alert us not to a failure of style on Barker's part, but to the fact that only one of the discourses from that period remains familiar to us: history has privileged the officer class.

But even that was an admirable failure, full of style and ambition, albeit caught up in a swirling and pretentious mess.

Books have been filled with the failures of Clinton-style philanthrocapitalism.

That may make it easier for the party leadership to credibly promise recovery, ask for patience and blame the slowdown on the failures of Western-style capitalism.

Marketers continue to tout we are the greatest country on Earth despite the failure of American-style capitalism to trickle-down prosperity and equal opportunity.

The failure of Soviet-style collectivization returned the collectivized land to the peasants, but most of their farms were too small to be prosperous and productivity in agriculture remained low.