We all know the fine line between success and failure at the Olympics, I point out.
Viewers are like Elizabeth Bennet in "Pride and Prejudice," who watched helplessly as her sisters made spectacles of themselves at a ball and concluded "that had her family made an agreement to expose themselves as much as they could during the evening, it would have been impossible for them to play their parts with more spirit, or finer success".
LIKE many singers from Slavic cultures, the Russian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky and the Polish baritone Mariusz Kwiecien have had some of their finest successes performing in Italian.
Ken Loach, who directed him in Land and Freedom, one of his first and finest successes, says: "The film we did together was quite extraordinary in a way, in that it was a group of people, some of whom were actors and some of whom were not, and we had to turn them into a militia.
Ah, that fine margin between success and failure.
The Brooklyn Museum is doing that -- and that's a fine measure of success.
"I've learned there are fine margins between success and failure.
There is a fine line between success and failure, and the difference is often excessive caution.
Henry It's such a fine line between success and failure.
Murray, a self-confessed boxing fanatic, sees parallels between the two sports in terms of the dedication required and the fine line between success and failure.
