Sentence examples for of a misfire from inspiring English sources
It is slow and stodgy – like an ulta low-rent Blade Runner – and something of a misfire.
Corby said that, in his case, he wouldn't be worried about the efficacy of the material but would be concerned about "the possibility of a misfire".
Strickland's neo-giallo Berberian Sound Studio was a masterpiece of form, but the tale of an audio engineer slowly falling into an abyss was something of a misfire in terms of narrative.
Directed by Jodie Foster, it is the very essence of a misfire, a film so out of step with the times that I'm tempted to say Dick Cheney on a hunting trip couldn't have misfired more.
At issue is whether the US wants to risk the possibility of escalating a military conflict with the Syrian government and even, in the case of a misfire, with Russia.
Even more of a misfire than her cartoony last novel ("Ten Days in the Hills," a predictable Hollywood satire loosely based on Boccaccio's "Decameron"), "Private Life" is encumbered by a plodding and repetitious plot, stereotyped characters and flat-footed prose — all of which makes the reader wonder why the talented Ms. Smiley undertook and stuck to such a project in the first place.
Eddie Stanky kicked the ball out of Phil Rizzuto's glove on a misfired hit-and-run play, triggering a five-run rally.
The Gemini began bucking and spinning because of a misfiring thruster rocket.
Psychiatrists believe increasingly that panic is the result of a misfiring in a suffocation alarm system at the base of the brain.
The way the Swiss went about winning their group ahead of a misfiring French side was, and forgive yet another trite cliché, as unspectacular as it was efficient.
The amplification of the singers, "to increase clarity of the words", reinforces the tacky sense of a misfiring musical, and Richard Jones's functional production, designed by Miriam Buether, inhabits a similar two-dimensional world.
