Sentence examples similar to ill fated undertaking from inspiring English sources

When Hollywood got round to confronting that ill-fated undertaking, it found little to glorify.

Unfortunately for the French, however, his idea was ignored at the time, and the Compagnie Universelle embarked on its ill-fated undertaking.

These experiments proved ill fated.

Not all densely populated neighborhoods were so ill fated, however.

Bond's examination of the hull of the Disco Volante was inspired by the ill-fated mission undertaken on 19 April 1956 by the ex-Royal Navy frogman "Buster" Crabb on behalf of MI6, as he examined the hull of the Soviet cruiser Ordzhonikidze that had brought Nikita Khrushchev and Nikolai Bulganin on a diplomatic mission to Britain.

My last, ill-fated attempt at novelty dating.

Welles's endless struggle with the profit-minded studio system really began with his follow-up film for RKO, the eagerly awaited but ill-fated "Magnificent Ambersons". Welles undertook the project with his signature high hopes and hard work.

His interest in food led her to undertake early, ill-fated forays into the kitchen.

This play can be regarded merely as a "comedy of fantasy," but some scholars see Birds (414 bce; Greek Ornithes) as a political satire on the imperialistic dreams that had led the Athenians to undertake their ill-fated expedition of 415 bce to conquer Syracuse in Sicily.

The Army did undertake a brief, ill-fated experiment in 1855 to replace mules with camels, at a post in Texas.

He will be responsible for conducting a scientific protocol while completing the route originally planned but not undertaken by Sir Ernest Shackleton on his ill-fated Endurance expedition 100 years ago.