Sentence examples for spirits failed from inspiring English sources

Even Mama, who loved omens and was sensitive to spirits, failed to detect anything abnormal.

The poems are made no better by giddy lists of images ("the moon a diet of light, sliver of pear, / wedge of lemon, slice of melon, half an orange, / silver onion" — they're phases, get it?) and the mindless natter of Old English alliteration ("No folk fled the flood, / no flags furled or spirits failed — / one brave soul felled. / Fouled fortune followed").

Before succumbing to the protracted countdown to a big gaming expo, "Indie Game" succeeds where many chronicles of more established creative spirits fail.

And then my spirit failed me.

At the same time, I don't want to read a complaint on a blog and say, 'Let's change the Web site.' " His view is that most people who complain about Spirit fail to grasp how it's different from other airlines — like visiting Wal-Mart and expecting Nordstrom-level service.

Or perhaps it would be more apt to say that I have been at a loss — a strange turn of phrase, as if loss were a place in the physical world, a kind of reverse oasis or Bermuda Triangle where the spirit fails and the compass needle spins.

Wales had spirit but failed badly in decision-making and execution.

He yearned for the ensemble spirit, but failed to find it at the NT or anywhere else.

In his overview article, Squyres notes that in its first three months of exploration Spirit has failed to find "lacustrine" (lake-related) deposits.

Because of Stalin's deportation of the Chechen nation, he was born in Kazakhstan; only when he was six was his family, with hundreds of thousands of other Chechens, allowed back to their highland home.If the Stalinist practice of internal exile for entire ethnic groups was intended, in part, to break their collective spirit, it failed in the case of the Chechens.

Wales coach Warren Gatland, perhaps the closest to Jones in spirit, has conspicuously failed in the past to unbalance Hartley with acerbic verbal attacks, which signalled subtle respect.