Sentence examples for grand failure from inspiring English sources

Yet Wilson's grand failure was a failure of idealism and egotism.

This season has not been as good, but it is hard to see how finishing second can be seen as some grand failure given the history of the club.

A Nov. 6 news analysis in Haaretz called the case "the attorney general's shame" for exposing "the grand failure" of his tenure, namely, "zero convictions of public figures" — as though a prosecutor's effectiveness should be measured by the number of scalps dangling from his belt.

Baldwin is perhaps too easily seduced by a narrative of grand failure, rather than accepting a quieter story of qualified success; but by his account — one that hurries past some fine performances — almost everything he did in film from that point on was, at best, dissatisfying.

Or maybe he just gave up, and decided that the pile of enforcement measures his administration shoveled forth on Friday is the best he can do, and that he might as well paper over his grand failure on immigration with some talking points.

Since then, not a whisper on what happened to that grand failure to meet its commitment.

That and Ms. von Otter's musicality and her way of illuminating a song's emotional core help make the dark and introspective "For the Stars Deutschehe Grammophon469 530-2) a moving album where most collaborations between classical and rock musicians are grand failures of judgment and taste.

This notion has comforted the nation's dinner parties through years of grander failures.

What we've always known of the shameful reprisals that followed is from what Vin's team-mate Brent Crosswell wrote in his classic Age column, "The year another Blue boy knew the 'shame' of grand final failure," thirty years old this week, and still one of the saddest and most poignant things ever written about football.

On Thursday the Grand Prix Drivers Associationn said they would "withdraw immediately" if there was a repeat of the British Grand Prix failures.

Of those four successive Grand Final failures at Old Trafford, while last season's was the 22-10 defeat athehandsnds of local rivals Wigan.