Maybe you had a phone interview that went poorly or got rejected when you called to ask someone on a date.
I publish a medium sized website and routinely encounter rank amateurs who declare that their freedom of speech is violated if their poorly written articles are rejected.
People who talk about "being rejected" tend to take rejections more poorly than people who re-frame the rejection into something that focuses on the situation itself, not them.
DeMaupassant's "Piede of String" is sent in to "Strange True Stories" and is rejected as being poorly written.
He did poorly in school, and was rejected by every one of the 20-odd Northeastern colleges to which he applied.
The remaining challenge was rejected due to poorly collected1H NMR,13C NMR and1H-13C Hspectractrandnd inconsistencies among the data.
The problems in Florida were so vast -- The New York Times Magazine reported that some 180,000 votes were rejected because of poorly designed ballots or legal challenges, while three times as many discarded ballots came from black voting precincts -- that changes seemed inevitable.
In the second act, Luckless seeks assistance to help finish his play, The Pleasures of the Town, but is poorly advised, and the work is rejected by his local theatre.
These findings and the following women's responses suggest that the benefits of screening programmes are either poorly understood or that screening is rejected as premature intervention.
Known well-characterised variants and novel sequence changes located in regions poorly conserved between human and yeast were rejected.
