Sentence examples for small failure from inspiring English sources

One small failure on their part is that they "couldn't do maths".

His life bumps gently along from one small failure to the next.

A small failure injures pride, triggering frustration that then inhibits artistic expression.

The only thing standing between him and victory would be a small failure of judgment, or a broken down car.

But this is a relatively small failure of prediction compared with the dire forecasts of soaring interest and inflation rates.

At first, Alice is alert to and humiliated by each small failure, but gradually, fierce resistance gives way to a childish compliance.

Though the swat has made Watt a star — Swatt Team signs are everywhere in Houston — he considers it a small failure when he bats down a pass.

That is a small failure, given the scale of this movie's achievement, which belongs equally (as the Cannes jury recognized) to the director and the actresses.

For his part, Mozart complains in letters to his father of being thwarted by Italian "cabals", but it often seems that he felt he had to make excuses to his grumpy, overambitious parent for any small failure.

Knowing that he needed a near flawless program to win, Weiss skated last among the contenders and opened with a small failure, reducing a planned quadruple toe loop to a triple toe loop.

Foreshocks provide a means by which to study small-scale failure processes that precede much larger events.