Sentence examples for famous failure from inspiring English sources

Of all the new approaches now being tried, the flash mob was the most famous failure.

Sheldon Hochheiser, AT&T's corporate historian, calls the videophone "the most famous failure in the history of the Bell system".

This fall the Presidio's federally appointed board is to make its final decision, a process whose drama has been amplified by the memory of a famous failure on the premises.

She places its start at the moment of a famous failure: the Mayday Vietnam protest of 1971, when twenty-five thousand people blockaded bridges and intersections around Washington, D.C.

5) Miami Heat (7) The Heat still look like Cleveland's biggest threat in the East... assuming they can get by Knicks reject Jeremy Lin and the team owned by the guy from the famous failure meme.

Some, like Agathe Gaillard's venerable storefront in the Marais, are focusing a show around a work in the MEP collection, in this case Jean-Philippe Charbonnier's 1947 "L'Enfant flou," a famous "failure" that is deeply evocative, with only the réverbère (gas light) in focus, and the child's face deformed.

Between those stints, he had one of the most famous failures in major league baseball when, as a Met, he watched a called third strike end the 2006 National League Championship Series.

"Merrily We Roll Along" and "Getting Away With Murder" were famous failures, though "Merrily," which closed after 16 performances in 1981, would be revised more than once and become a favorite among Sondheim devotees.

And now they are threatening to upstage the 1964 Philadelphia Phillies as baseball's most famous failures, possibly for the same reason: using starters on less than their usual rest.

Below, we suggest essential questions about failure, what it means, and what can come from it; list just a few examples of famous "failures" from fields like sports, business, science, the arts and education; and suggest activities students might use to study and learn from failure.

Those cases became famous failures, but the men at C Street contend that their support group has mostly worked, as on the morning in the spring of 2000 when each of them received an urgent summons to Stupak's home in Menominee, Michigan.