Sentence examples for kind of a failure from inspiring English sources

"I'm kind of a failure," Feig admits.

"He would take it as kind of a failure," Scott Linehan, the Minnesota Vikings' offensive coordinator, said in a telephone interview Tuesday from Eden Prairie, Minn.

Jan-Christopher Horak, director of the U.C.L.A. film and television archive, said of Mr. Fanaka: "In a way his major accomplishment was a kind of a failure -- to have tried and failed to significantly change the racial politics of his profession.

As a schoolboy in Houston, he mounted one improbable stage production after another: an all-battle-scene re-creation of the Alamo and even an adaptation of "Star Wars," which he has acknowledged was "kind of a failure, due to the limitations of the elementary-school stage".

What we are starting to see is people who [build a track record and graduate to their own fund], though that's kind of a failure for us.

So they’re not just thinking, ‘I’m going to sell my company and leave,’ because that’s kind of a failure for us.”.

Both she and Jack think of their return home as the sign of some kind of failure — a failure to invent independent lives for themselves, a failure to envision a viable existence beyond their hometown.

To fall short of unconditional care is experienced as a kind of perfidy, a failure to be faithful.

And someone goes and wins a silver when they started the sport seriously four years ago, and it still kind of is a failure, I see that as a bit of a joke".

Here two cases involving the hidden failure as a kind of failure and the normal failure are studied during analysis.

"A kind of odd failure of a film," laughs Pollard.