Sentence examples for outright flop from inspiring English sources
The Little Princess was enough of a success to warrant putting Temple in another lavish fairy tale, but The Blue Bird (1940), based on Maurice Maeterlinck's allegorical play, became her first outright flop.
By taking partial ownership of a lot more companies than it could buy outright, G.E. is enhancing chances for a breakout hit and reducing the damage of an outright flop.
As I noted in my retro reviews this week, while 2005's Fantastic Four and its 2007 sequel, Rise of the Silver Surfer, aren't necessary good, each has aspects that work, and neither was an outright flop.
Yet as many box office stories have noted on Monday, the film was an outright flop: "Vamps" earned $500 total, putting the comedy in league with "Oogieloves," "Delgo" and other historic box-office washouts.
Under the auspices of his Bad Robot production company, he would go on to produce huge, much-discussed hits (Lost), big hits that didn't inspire frenzied conversation (Person Of Interest), medium-sized hits with devoted audiences (Alias), smaller cult hits (Fringe) and outright flops (Almost Human, Alcatraz, Six Degrees).
Onward to November The summer transition to general election from primary campaign is ripe for shifts of tone and emphasis, if not outright flip-flops.
An expensive fantasy, "Jack the Giant Slayer," flopped outright.
Now, with so many movies for audiences to choose from, some are failing to meet expectations or are flopping outright.
The flop was the latest in 14 years of fizzles and outright failures in North Korea's efforts to conduct showy tests of its long-range missiles and atom bombs.
(At Quack.com, a sound like the flip-flop of duck feet - more subtle than an outright quack - fades in and out).
