Sentence examples for shadow of failure from inspiring English sources

Its incompletion felt like a dark shadow of failure.

Both were based on the violation of mental patterns and expectations, and in both the world is a tangle of conflicting systems where humans live in the shadow of failure, folly, and death.

Tom, who trains the two girls, is an injury-riddled former cyclist who missed out on an Olympic gold by a fraction of a second and has lived in the shadow of that failure ever since.

Why he stays there in the shadow of his failure is anyone's guess, but in time they become teacher and master – freeing each other from their psychological shackles, letting their spirits soar, et cetera.

It emerged dramatically as a bold new social commitment to mutual care in the immediate shadow of financial market failure and years of brutal conflict.

But despite these and other failures, most second-term presidents also have accomplishments to be proud of, though perhaps shadowed by a tinge of failure.

End it and face disruption to the lives of people you love, the public admission of failure, and the shadow of loneliness?

So-called perfectionist participants may have seen their shadowing performance more from a fear of failure than from a feeling of success, because 95% accuracy is still a 5% deduction from their ideal result (Gregersen and Horwitz 2002).

In his best-known novel, Infinite Jest (1996), three of the main characters, the Incandenza Brothers, labour under the shadow of their father's suicide, a failure of his communication with them.

For Labour, shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan said the government's announcement on youth justice was an "admission of failure" from Nick Clegg and Chris Grayling.

Surrounding the joy of 1969 and 1986 there has been nothing but high-profile failure, all in the shadow of the historically dominant Yankees.