Sentence examples for his work fails from inspiring English sources

In consequence, as Anita Desai has written, many of his readers feel that his work fails to "reflect the chaos, the drift, the angst that characterizes a society in transition".

On the fourth floor, Tom's attempts to charm some of the elderly women into doing his work fails miserably, as they ignore him and all adore Andy.

His work failed to develop, and how could it do so?

But Rivera's reputation later sagged because simplistic interpretations of his work failed to understand the reach of his curiosity and philosophical interests, Mr. Coronel said.

In the long run it did not help his reputation as a pianist, though, for when the reality of his work failed to match the enormous build-up, critics were unusually blunt in their assessments.

Sometimes his prose gets a touch fancy or peculiar -- a song treatment is "supernally relaxed," his work "failed to sate Bing's energy," Bing "had haplessly incarnated the excesses of Prohibition" -- and one can argue with certain judgments: Is Crosby really a "far more important artist" than John McCormack?

When his works fail, they fail in the direction of too-easy decoration and cheerful psychedelia.

Unfortunately, premières are still so infrequent that crushing expectations attend them, and disappointment inevitably ensues when a new work fails to astound Diaghilev out of his grave.

The work fails, however, on two counts.

Normally, if a work fails to realise its reserve price, it is removed from sale.

By Jia Tolentino May 4, 2017 "Women Who Work" fails even to get its own story straight.