Many men report feeling shocked and depressed when their sex lives fail to return to normal after treatment.
These figures seemed like parodies of affluent liberal academics, who advocate good ideas and impart them to a new intake of students each year but whose lives fail to live up to their own ideal.
The women in this volume chose not just to embark on new careers after their marriages broke down or their personal lives failed, they even exchanged continents, leaving Europe behind for the New World.
We can lose lives, fail, face daunting challenges and be unable to overcome, all of which are survival situations.
She writes, "Analyses that focus on models of birthing rather than women's emotional lives fail to capture the substance of the insult that women have recently incurred in giving birth.
This points to the gap between (Kantian) autonomy and authenticity: one can lead an autonomous life, even if this way of living fails to express a person's self-understanding.
Among other things, the states in which we live fail, one might reasonably believe, to distribute wealth and power fairly among their citizens.
We spent thousands of pounds on solicitor's fees: the London borough where we live failed to provide adequate education, so we took them to court.
Michael Jackson's mother has filed a lawsuit against the promoter of his planned concerts last year, saying that the company, AEG Live, failed to supply medical equipment or to monitor his personal doctor properly, Reuters reported.
Organisers Cambridge Live "failed to make suitable and sufficient assessment of the risk" to the public from fairground vehicles, a court was told.
