The brave new dawn of English one-day cricket began with record numbers of runs scored, quite a lot of runs conceded, rapid-fire centuries, thrillingly unsuccessful rain-affected run chases and even a familiar batting collapse.
Charlotte Gainsbourg was having a rest in a muddy alley, in the rain, suggestive of an unsuccessful evening out.
Those who are less fortunate have to use bits of cardboard and other scraps of material, in a largely unsuccessful effort to keep out the rain.
However, attempts to round the Cape over the next two days were unsuccessful, with Endeavour repeatedly driven back by wind, rain and contrary tides.
Mr Brooke, grey-faced, looked like somebody who had just returned from an unsuccessful camping holiday during which there had been a lot of rain.
It is transient and transcendental, like so many of Cai's site-specific concepts, and like the Apollo spaceshots, many attempts were unsuccessful – including one in 1994 in Bath, of all places, which was cancelled due to rain.
He was generally unsuccessful with the bat in the following weeks, during which the third Test was entirely rained off.
The search was unsuccessful.
Alas, he was unsuccessful.
"But they were unsuccessful".
