Sentence examples for has never excelled from inspiring English sources

Catholicism has never excelled at letting nonbelievers live as they believe they should.

As a nation, the UK has never excelled at talking about its own state of mind.

Pospisil's defeat of Murray, for instance, had been a surprise but not a shock; for whatever reason, Murray has never excelled at Indian Wells.

Lowell helped lead the Florida Marlins and the Red Sox to World Series titles and was the most valuable player in the 2007 Series, and Rodriguez has never excelled in the postseason.

It's postmodern, not to mention a little scary, to write a review for The New York Times about a fictional memoir in which the protagonist, a failed novelist who has "never excelled at anything," fantasizes about assassinating the reviewer who "shoved" his novel "through a high-speed shredder in the Sunday Times".

These extremists have virtually no chance of ever seizing the reins of power in Islamabad in general elections, for Pakistan's religious parties have never excelled at winning support and have rarely attracted more than 5% of the vote.

'Don't Retreat' These pressures can perhaps be seen most clearly in the recent experience of Liu Xiang, a Chinese track athlete who became a national hero and the country's most popular sports star in Athens when he won the 110-meter men's hurdles, a sport in which China had never excelled.

I thought you were upstairs in bed asleep!" Having never excelled in any subject but art, she could not help us with our homework, nor did she take the slightest interest in looking at our report cards.

While non-carrier females, like proband III-3 and her sister III-1, have normal intelligence, heterozygous females have variable degree of intellectual disability and have never excelled at school.

Sinha picked Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita "for Nabokov's astonishing virtuoso performance, which has never been excelled", and Morrison plumped for The Stories of Raymond Carver.

You don't suddenly see countries materialising in sports at which they have never previously excelled.