Sentence examples for lifetime of failure from inspiring English sources

One writer, Christopher Lazare, tries to picture the opening night: "Da Ponte, surrounded by his pupils, looked on from a box and acknowledged the audience's applause, thinking whatever thoughts occur to a man of seventy-seven who hears his youth and his success singing to him across a lifetime of failure".

The shelves were definitely empty on Monday night when Ed Schmidt wrapped up the final performance of "My Last Play," his one-man show about acknowledging a lifetime of failure in the theater by giving away his collection of 2,000 theater books.

Success is sometimes the result of a lifetime of failure, which is a lesson quitters never learn.

Their dizzying array of political machinations created a trickle-down effect that was responsible for mashing the dreams of schoolchildren hopelessly lodged in a system that set them on a path for a lifetime of failure, misery, and working at El Pollo Loco.

As in "Legend of a Suicide", Gary, the hero of "Caribou Island", is trying to escape a lifetime of failures, with one epic new venture: building a log cabin, which barely keeps out the wind, with an outhouse and no running water, where he hopes to live year-round.

Finally succeeding after a lifetime of failures.

Using probabilistic physical modelling, the lifetime probability of failure is derived and a time-dependent sensitivity analysis is presented.

After a lifetime of sports failure, he started winning Paralympic-sanctioned races, beaming from the medal stand with a self-esteem that had gone untapped his entire life.

A lifetime of bungling, failure, humiliation, and deceit seems to be disclosed in a single moment.

A method of predicting lifetime to failure for a carbon fibre reinforced composite system subjected to a complex load time history has been developed.

Both Superposition and Weak-Link models were used for statistical determination of lifetimes of each failure models (Statistical method).