Sentence examples for magnificent failure from inspiring English sources

The episode is not well known, but it was a magnificent failure, and both the failure and the magnificence of it are amply evoked in Mr. Galbraith's exuberant fictional imagining.

(His story is told in detail in Craig Ryan's 2003 book "Magnificent Failure").

In the end, the verdict on Pat Moynihan may be that he was a frustrating conundrum: our political era's most magnificent failure.

The Sound and the Fury was always the book that Faulkner felt "tenderest toward," he said, "the most gallant, the most magnificent failure" of all his novels.

The fascinating, indeed the historically electrifying idea of Roger D. Master's "Fortune Is a River" is that Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolo Machiavelli collaborated on a "magnificent failure" that would have reshaped history, had their project been a success.

It was successful in the sense that it was a magnificent failure.

"All We Know" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $30), Lisa Cohen's book about three magnificent failures, opens with a startling portrait of Esther Murphy (1897-1962), was was like a proto-Susan Sontag - "she would pull great swaths of human history out of her memory, exhilarated by its ironies, its neglected crevices, and its meaning in the present" - except that she never finished a book.

But at least be a magnificent, flamboyant failure.

But at least be a magnificent, noble failure.

This is as magnificent a failure as a car salesman who not only fails to sell someone a car, but their potential customer spends their whole life travelling on roller skates as the salesman put them off cars for life.

It is, in short, a magnificent part-failure of a great discovery.