Sentence examples for something of a failure from inspiring English sources

It also makes him think that, compared with Columbus, he's something of a failure.

The North's first nuclear test in 2006 was considered something of a failure by the United States and South Korea.

Like Apple's attempt to turn iTunes into a social medium with Ping, BBM Music, started in 2011, was widely seen as something of a failure.

The institution that Mr. Gingrich led — Congress — is extraordinarily unpopular, and Mr. Gingrich left it being perceived as something of a failure.

That would come as a great suprise to Ralph Waldo Emerson; it also makes the scene something of a failure, if its intent is to demonstrate Susan's competence.

But for the same reasons, the decision to stage "The Tempest" within "Hag-Seed" can be read as something of a failure of imagination on Atwood's part.

The novel, now acknowledged as Turgenev's masterpiece, was something of a critical failure on its first appearance.

While many believe this final chapter is something of a rushed failure, it contains elements that are bravely, authentically tragic.

In light of such a tortured production, Super Mario Bros seems like something of a noble failure, a bizarre but worthy anomaly on the resumés of its stars.

It is often not attributed to any cause, and its symptoms are the lack of something, a failure of the past to have provided something for the future.

That something is a failure of the will, something no important candidate for public office can have.