Sentence examples for honourable failure from inspiring English sources

John McCain, for example, entered the 2008 race as the front-runner largely because of his honourable failure in 2000.

And I would much rather read an honourable failure than a dishonourable success, particularly in the case of style".

Endicott Peabody's record of honourable failure was briefly interrupted in 1962 when, after a lengthy recount of the votes, he was elected governor of Massachusetts.

They have won only two trophies, the Premiership crown and EDF Energy Cup in 2007, but this has never been a club which deals in honourable failure.

As Clint Eastwood has shown, it's possible to make a very fine film out of a risible novel (The Bridges of Madison County) and an honourable failure out of a bestselling book (Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil).

Even the minority that declared his earlier films to be honourable failures, or exercises in intellectual tedium, had to agree that, of all directors, he remained the most recklessly volatile and his development the most fascinatingly unpredictable.

As Peter Jonas, former managing director of English National Opera, observed in his recent passionate defence of the company and its current artistic director John Berry, honourable failures and the "occasional stinker" are par for the course alongside "thrilling successes" when offering a programme of the range and ambition that ENO regularly tackles.

Scotland have endured honourable failures in the past, but the feeling is that Strachan can achieve something more.

If carried out correctly an inemuri is an honourable kind of minor failure, like having no time to eat lunch, or 200 unanswered emails.

Britain and France are honourable exceptions to this failure, but aid agencies will be battling for extra funds for to tackle maternal mortality in the developing world.

His book's failures are profoundly honourable, and unpicking them has not been for me a happy task.