Sentence examples for feeling failed from inspiring English sources

"For him it was his last afternoon as himself," says Auden of Yeats' dying day, An afternoon of nurses and rumours; The provinces of his body revolted, The squares of his mind were empty, Silence invaded the suburbs, The current of his feeling failed; he became his admirers.

Studies with direct measures of food intake and/or satiety feeling failed to document any difference between fructose and other caloric sweeteners in humans [ 28, 85, 86].

Something about her emotionally frantic world – its archness, its paradoxical want of feeling – fails to connect with 21st-century readers.

The positive feelings failed to carry over to Friday night.

He gives his wife wealth, leisure, and luxury, and is, therefore, a devoted husband, and she is an undutiful, unloving wife, if her feelings fail to respond to his.

And I can't help feeling we failed that test.

(You get the feeling they failed the underworld examination).

I couldn't help feeling we failed him.

The brief existence of the Viceroyalty of the Rio de la Plata, which had lasted barely 38 years, impeded the consolidation of a patriotic feeling and failed to bring a sense of community to all of the population.

It can't be easy to have to contend with the constant feeling that you've failed; that feeling of a slippery world falling out of your hands, the vertigo of events suddenly running chaotically away from you.

Yet much of that popular feeling may fail to show up at the polls.