Sentence examples for ignominious failure from inspiring English sources

The talks finished in ignominious failure.

Our politicians' ignominious failure over the last half-century to provide universal health care, despite the efforts of Democratic and Republican presidents alike to pass it.

No one gave them a prayer in the Premier League, everyone predicted instant and ignominious failure, yet in that first season the Latics hit the ground running.

It was an ignominious failure, but things soon got worse as Vogts proceeded to reduce Scottish international football to year zero.

This is the end of the disastrous experiment that was austerity, which was an ignominious failure that I opposed from the outset.

Last week, there was the ignominious failure of the G.O.P. health-care bill, which Trump had personally endorsed, although he seemed blissfully unaware of some of its contents.

Samuel Pierpont Langley, who had spent 17 years studying and testing the principles of flight with money from the War Department, suffered two highly publicized ignominious failures in the fall of 1903.

B2B now means "back to banking," B2C has morphed into "back to consulting," and, for the most ignominious failures, B2M means "back to Mom's".

"It's been an expensive, ignominious, racist failure," Stone said of the drug war.

As I would stare into the mirror it was like I was trying to peer into the journey fate had planned for me, and I would stare and attempt to ferret out what kind of man, what kind of ignominious schlubby failure of a life fate had lined up for me before my death which would probably be from heat loss from the top of my head.

Astonishing creative powers, perfect love, tragic loss, heroic bravery, a recognisable human failure, noble grief, ignominious death, final union: it's easy to see why the Orpheus story has commanded such interest over the centuries.