| 单词 | failure |
| 例句 | Thus, the reason for the failure of Native Americans to domesticate North American apples by the time Europeans arrived lay neither with the people nor with the apples. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But while the failure of Ashton’s hurt Luma’s ego, it was also an opportunity to focus her life on more important things. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z A quick death here would be a hundred times better than returning to Lord Ramsay as a failure. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Each month I watch for blood, fearfully, for when it comes it means failure. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no question in his mind of failure. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The failures of your predecessors will guide you, Tiberinus had said. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z What they didn’t expect was that the king would respond to even the smallest failure with an “off with his head!” attitude. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Her text discussed the metamorphosis of more than fifty moths and butterflies, describing the timing of each phase, her repeated experiments and failures, and any other interesting insect behavior she had observed. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The technique must be learned the way I learned it, by failures. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z We were both failures, she and I. We’d both run and been brought back, she in days, I in only hours. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Turner wondered if this was a third failure. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Such a failure would be fatal to the organization. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Jonas had heard again and again now, reference to the previous failure. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z This one is a failure, and had to be, since it was written by a pillar of salt. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Her grandmother’s “failure” led to Candice spending so much time with her. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Their joint project was exceptionally ambitious and, for reasons that scientists would not fully comprehend for another year or two, doomed to failure. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z This is the biggest failure in Greek mathematics, and it is the only thing that kept them from discovering calculus. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Equally puzzling is the failure of people to domesticate flax in its wild range in western Europe and North Africa, or einkorn wheat in its wild range in the southern Balkans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “There’s a school of thought,” I said, “that parents shouldn’t criticize children. They should encourage instead. You know, people rise to other people’s expectations. And when you criticize, it just means you’re expecting failure.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Also preying on his mind were his failure to find romantic love, and his constant religious doubts. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z A few months earlier, he had been given a flight safety award by his airline for successfully handling a jumbo-jet engine failure at low altitude. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z A third possibility, then: dismayed by the failure of our Jesus to protect us, they opted to steer clear. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Several hours later, his first wife, Alice, died in his arms from kidney failure, a day after giving birth to their daughter. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z A failure to command coherence connectives turned out to be among the skills that most sharply differentiated the struggling students from their successful peers. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The trick would be to not make his failure obvious. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z And yet, because these failures are so instantaneous and so mysterious, we don’t really know how to understand them. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z I’m not being expelled, and I’m not a failure. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z My academic failures had forced her to go through the stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z As it turned out, he wound up apologizing for the comparative failure of his effort. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z It must be so, because every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z He did not return for two years, not long before Old Randall’s death, to apologize in person for his failure. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z So if we suffered in our little house on the peanut plain of Bethlehem, it was proof that one of us had committed a failure of virtue. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The Explorer and Sputnik programs continued with scientific exploration, although both the United States and the Soviet Union still had the occasional failure. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z Most middle-aged adults have resigned themselves to failure.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The only common ground they have, as far as I know, is failure. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Some premonition of trouble ahead might have been gained by the failure to control a typhus epidemic in Spain in 1948. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Conscious of his defeat and failure, Rick settled back. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z The expensive correspondence with the invisible doctors ended in failure. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z My failure crashes back in, hitting me in a hot wave. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Similarly, one should grant the Maya the dignity of assigning them responsibility for their failures as well as their successes. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The failure of our legal system to eradicate all of the tactics adopted during the Jim Crow era to suppress the black vote has major implications today. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z "I can't talk to it at all; signal failures left and right." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “You got out three times faster than the other initiates. Whatever you are, you’re not a failure.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z In general, however, we could not hide the fact that the strike was a failure. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Her attempt to become popular, to be more like them, had been a total failure. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z What worried me as I left the King’s House and walked through the Palace grounds, however, was not my failure, but Estraven’s part in it. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z "If you have nothing, then this mission is a failure—" "Sir." An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Almost immediately, though, there was a sense of failure. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z This is one of the few human endeavors where even a failure is a success. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The state attorney general had sent Hoover a telegram indicating that he held the bureau “responsible for failure” of the investigation. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He dropped from the final rocks onto the snowy path at the base, howling in agony and with a knowledge of failure. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Radio failure was especially worrisome, because if the astronauts couldn’t talk to anybody they would have to do all the navigating back from the moon, without help from radar tracking stations, and computers on earth. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I got in trouble for telling her I thought that was just a nice way of calling me a failure. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z I wanted to say I came second so that he would know immediately, so that I would acknowledge my failure, but instead I said, “Yes,” and handed him the report card. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Nelson was puzzled by my failure to understand such a simple thing. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z But lesser failures of coherence are among the commonest flaws in writing. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Embittered by failure, yearning for a safe place where he could await old age, the false homeopath took refuge in Macondo. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z As long as they were on me, I could forget about everything else that swirled around inside this 142-pound sack of dehydrated failure. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Our failure to domesticate even a single major new food plant in modern times suggests that ancient peoples really may have explored virtually all useful wild plants and domesticated all the ones worth domesticating. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t his failure, for starters, and in any case, he didn’t need a child like I did. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Naturally, I came to see the list as indicative of her failures as well as mine. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “I bet he drinks heavily to smother the shame of what his life has become, and dies of liver failure by forty-three,” I said. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Their father was in cardiac failure, and the doctor had been asking if the family wanted him to undertake extreme lifesaving measures. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The strike was shaping up as a failure. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z His failures had made him a recluse, but people remembered the vulnerable boy he had once been. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Though he knew that his failure to take the pills accounted for some of it, he thought that the feelings came also from the memories. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Bloom regretted his failure to copyright the tune. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z To forget their message was a failure that further convinced me I was not the right and true apprentice to the shaman. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z I think he was well inclined toward stubbornness, and contemptuous of failure, long before his conscription into the war and the strange circumstances that discharged him from it. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Devan’s exclusion must have seemed a rebuke, a punishment for some failure on his part, or perhaps for some failure of his father. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z And here she’d always berated him for his failures in business when the greater bankruptcy had been on her part. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Over and over again, a cycling of tasks, of failures, of problems. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Despite this expenditure, Hoover had decided, after assuming command of the bureau, to dump the case back on state authorities in order to evade responsibility for the failure. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z A failure to distinguish these senses, and to ask which of them the first users of the term ‘the Scientific Revolution’ had in mind, has caused a tremendous amount of confusion. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Everyone who had tried to penetrate the Unknown Regions had come back within a few hours, their enterprise a failure. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I sniffled the whole way home, fighting back feelings of failure. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z When you have one, you will likely mistake it for a personal failure, which it is not. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Nothing is more usual than to feel that others have shared in our failures, just as it is an ordinary reaction to forget those who have shared in our achievements. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z People of color, because of the history of racial subjugation and exclusion, often experience success and failure vicariously through the few who achieve positions of power, fame, and fortune. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I wish to demonstrate more fully the failure of such armies. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z He told his son of the sad dignity that can belong to a soldier, how he is necessary in the light of all the failures of man—the penalty of our frailties. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He was going to repeat his experiment and record its failure, and then he was going to bed. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z But with the real possibility of nuclear conflict with the USSR—and the failure of the CIA to send its own agents behind the Iron Curtain—the time had come to make it happen. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z A population of 4,000 was able to survive for 10,000 years, but with significant cultural losses and significant failures to invent, leaving it with a uniquely simplified material culture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Hence these local failures or limitations of food production cannot be attributed to competition from bountiful hunting opportunities. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z From an extraterrestrial perspective, our global civilization is clearly on the edge of failure in the most important task it faces: to preserve the lives and well-being of the citizens of the planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She didn’t like to think about her failures—the seagull she couldn’t turn into a dragon, Coach Hedge’s baseball bat stubbornly refusing to turn into a hot dog. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The failure to find Howard after so much effort was frustrating and puzzling. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “No one likes to talk about their failures. Especially your grandmother.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I can’t make him happy, and I resent my failure: I am not enough for him, I am inadequate. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “Coach isn’t a failure,” I say, empathetic, standing. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Behind her were the village, Emma, the midwife, and failure—she could not go back there. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z No one directly proclaimed that schools were designed to sanctify failure and destruction. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z He looked at the two flaming vehicles and sighed, knowing he’d be a laughingstock for his failure today. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Perhaps Jaimito felt broken by these failures and her reminders of how she had tried to prevent them. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z For this reason I took many days and had many failures before I fashioned a bow and arrows that could be used. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z The most conspicuous such examples are the failure of both farming and herding to reach Native American California from the U.S. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Winchell was having tremendous difficulty throwing the ball, and it was hard to know why—the rain, or the nervousness of playing in Memorial Stadium, or his own silent prophecy of failure. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The recruitment and training of volunteers was one of the essential tasks of the campaign and would in large part be responsible for its success or failure. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The announcement in the paper states that Hector Bowen, better known as Prospero the Enchanter, entertainer and stage magician of great renown, died of heart failure in his home on the fifteenth of March. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z What confronts us, now the excitement’s over, is our own failure. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z But it did not mitigate the feelings of failure on the football field. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z His failures were sharpened, in an odd way, by Woody’s return. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z But obviously Mendez—who probably would have made a great Secret Service agent—felt like a total failure. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And Luma feared that by going ahead with the season, she might be setting her players up for failure. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z The little woman’s gray eyes fastened shrewdly on Byerley, “Barbarians—the fall of civilization—possible failure of the Machine. Your thought processes are very transparent, monsieur.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z In Aunt Maggie’s eyes I was a plainly marked failure and she feared that perhaps she would have to feed me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked positively offended at the Olmec failure to see the world in the same way as a contemporary European engineer. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Mr. de Klerk’s failure to respond put our own relationship in jeopardy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The version of her that was everything put together—hope and hopelessness, curiosity and courage, failure and fight. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z As is the case with all major failures, or successes for that matter, there were many reasons. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z But his life had finally calmed down enough to return to the troubling question of Katherine III, and the failure of his memory. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z The new machine, like so many of Ernest’s ideas before it, was perched on the edge of technical plausibility, offering the prospect of limitless triumph or abject failure. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z We do not become sick only because of a failure of vigilance. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite overkill’s failure to enjoy full acceptance, it helped set in stone what became the paradigmatic image of the first Americans. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Critics said that Mark Antony’s failure stemmed from having waited too long to get started or from leaving the fight too early. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Many blacks in South Africa believed that any effort by the black man to challenge the white man was foolhardy and doomed to failure; the white man was too smart and too strong. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Burnham knew that placing the future of the fair in the hands of bankers would mean its certain failure. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The arrest had been too long in the making to admit yet another failure. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z They regretted his failure, but they welcomed his damaged return. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z A year later, the shock has worn off, but a sense of failure and shame persists, deep and abiding. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He sensed, in her voice, the sadness of defeat, as though her friends who were leaving for teaching positions in Canada and America had confirmed to her a great personal failure. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Alice Paul immediately began collecting notarized depositions from the marchers to document the failures of the police department. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z And what is the greatest single reason for this Christian church’s failure? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z She called him a failure, a failure, a failure; Ralph hurled her to the ground. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z On one wall, flashers and safety overrides blinked to indicate that there were electric malfunctions and topside failures, probably from having the conning deck go under. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z If acoustically flawed, Peck knew, the building would be a failure no matter how imposing the finished structure proved to be. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It was his failures that haunted him at night, though. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z And as for us, any real illness, anything lingering, weakening, a loss of flesh or appetite, a fall of hair, a failure of the glands, would be terminal. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z That too had been a failure, because those who had achieved the Quest had become perfect and been lost to the world, while those who had failed in it had soon returned no better. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Let’s see who’s the failure now, Dad, he thought as he shouldered open the heavy kitchen door. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z The half-man looked down at Nailer as he went past, yellow eyes watching, impassive to Nailer’s failure. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z “All is a process of adjustment and readjustment, or else eventual failure.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He was French-born, blind in one eye, and he detested inefficiency and failure. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Although his panicked gang scattered after that ridiculous failure, Booth hoped to try again. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It didn't matter because they didn't realize just what had happened, neither my hope nor my failure. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z At the beginning of this chapter, I mentioned the failure of some food-producing societies with complex political organization to develop or adopt writing before modern times. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Reason does not matter, Aspirant Veturius. Only loyalty. If you defy the order, you fail the Trial. The punishment for failure is death.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “I thought if you knew what a failure I was, you wouldn’t want me along.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z The failure of the previous selection was ten years ago, and my energy is starting to diminish. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z He moved back to the desk, intending to try the drawers, but with the heavy expectation of failure; and as he did so, he heard the faint crunch of tires on gravel. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Whatever structures were holding it up give way in a sudden and catastrophic failure. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I carefully considered the escape plan and concluded that it was premature, and the likelihood of its failure was unacceptably high. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Previous failures will mean that your brother will work extra shifts and come home at dawn so that he doesn't have to see you anymore. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Computer failures like the one that struck the Yorktown are just a faint shadow of the power of zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The failure of the Union infantry to obey Washburn’s orders to attack determined their fate. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z It had been a miserable failure, of course. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The source of Burnham’s greatest dismay was the failure of the architects to finish their drawings on schedule. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z As Stanley's father liked to say, "I learn from failure." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z Over breakfast at his hotel on Thursday morning, Burnham read with uneasiness about the failure of S. A. Kean & Co., a private bank in Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “He lowered my self-esteem! I feel like such a failure!” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Particularly unfortunate was my failure to be able to report exactly the water content of the DNA samples upon which Rosy had done her measurements. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Yet these were the areas Mayor Schmoke knew would determine his legacy of success or failure. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z For a contributing citizen to be released from the community was a final decision, a terrible punishment, an overwhelming statement of failure. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Because no matter how deadly his failure, he was always back in the next scene, as if there were a revival center just beyond the edge of the animation cell. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z She herself was preoccupied—by the births of their sons, by the family setbacks after Papa was jailed, by Papa’s sad demise and death, by their own numer-ous business failures. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Du Bois once observed that the psychological wage of whiteness put “an indelible black face to failure.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z She would succeed in this, she had to—the price of failure was too high. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z There might have been a mechanical failure in the aircraft—or it could have been an error Olga made herself, perhaps failing to pull out of a dive. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z I was still young, there was still plenty of time, but failure cloaked me like a mantle, it overwhelmed me, dragged me under, and I gave up hope. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Since the managers had to answer for any failures by their crews, they were often more vigilant, brutal, and unforgiving than camp guards. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “I was so devastated by my own grief at her loss, and my own feeling of failure, that I didn’t even try to help them through it. I was angry, too.” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z “No one really starts anything new, Mrs. Nemur. Everyone builds on other men’s failures. There is nothing really original in science. What each man contributes to the sum of knowledge is what counts.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z We had no choice but to report our failure to Styx. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Even though Wilson had spoken out in favor of suffrage, the National Woman’s Party continued to hold him, as the nation’s leader, responsible for the failure of the measure. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z It was afternoon, she was a failure, and she had run away. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Watson told Crick, and both took off for the Eagle, their favorite pub, where they celebrated Pauling’s failure with shots of schadenfreude-infused whiskey. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The newspapers called Pioneer 1 a failure, but it wasn’t, not for us coal miners’ sons on top of the Coalwood Club House. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Thyon, thirteen years old and sharp as the point of a viper’s fang, had looked around him at the cryptic rituals and philosophies and seen it all as obfuscation cooked up to excuse that failure. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z But the assignment was not a complete failure—Hairwoman runs the drama club and she recruited several new members based on their performances as to why they needed an extension. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z It was decided, in view of his possible failure to attract, to support him on either side with a nearly equal number of war horses. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z And knowing that my mother in there was a statistic that didn’t have to be, that existed because of a society’s failure, hypocrisy, greed, and lack of mercy and compassion. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Basta in particular was the object of enough scorn and derision for ten men, and from his failure to react at all one could only guess at the depths of his despair. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z She even understands—more terrible, no doubt, than all the rest—old Hrothgar’s knowledge that peace must be searched through ordeal upon ordeal, with no final prospect but failure. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Those accustomed to failure fear the novelty of success. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z “Its failure to appreciate its importance,” the souvenir said, “has cost the Exposition Company many thousands of dollars.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It is quite possible, then, that my employer fully expects me to respond to his bantering in a like manner, and considers my failure to do so a form of negligence. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z A defect that slightly weakened it, though it would not cause failure on a normal mission. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Convinced he was destined for greatness, Charles always chose the easiest path possible, which brought failure at almost everything he did. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Despite his failure to testify in person, Lawrence’s voice did not otherwise go unheard at the hearing. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It was a label that foretold failure and then hastened its arrival. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The failure of the Khoisan and Pygmies to develop agriculture was due not to any inadequacy of theirs as farmers but merely to the accident that southern Africa’s wild plants were mostly unsuitable for domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The work advanced slowly, impeded by the worsening relationship between the fair’s two ruling bodies, the National Commission and the Exposition Company, and by the architects’ failure to get their drawings to Chicago on time. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Instead, my backpack experienced a non-passive failure, splitting across the seam holding the main pocket together. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z His prices were high, for failure often did not come easily. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “The Chief Elder told me, at the beginning, that the receiving of memory causes terrible pain. And you described for me that the failure of the last new Receiver released painful memories to the community. “ The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z But I soon realized that Fannie’s murder was not an isolated instance, and the failure to pursue justice was not unusual at the time. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z He will suffer for his failure, probably lose his life, but not before he sees me punished. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z “She has heart failure every time a wave knocks her down. What she doesn’t lose in the casinos she spends on the house doctor at the Caribe Hilton.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Two dozen horsemen had gone out and two dozen had returned, which meant the search had been a failure. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The subsequent failure of the American Colonization Society and the combination of logistical and economic difficulties in the colony of Liberia exposed the impracticality of any mass migration back to Africa. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Hale soon went bankrupt—an embittering failure that only stoked the furnace of his ambition. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Subconsciously you feel that you must attempt to explain away your failure, as an intellectual and soldier of ideas, to actively participate in critical social movements. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z All we had done was blow up a fence and stink up Coalwood with our failures. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I was extremely eager to know about Oliver, about the training camps, about MK’s successes and failures. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Holding Cholly as a model of sin and failure, she bore him like a crown of thorns, and her children like a cross. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z With all the advantages of hindsight, Jefferson’s strategic assessment of 1796 appears more and more prescient: Whoever followed Washington was probably doomed to failure. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Infuriated by his failure and by Ron’s and Hermione’s attitudes, Harry brooded for the next few days over what to do next about Slughorn. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Of the battle he says: No blame can be attached to the army for its failure to accomplish what was projected by me. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It was just a failure of the traditional grammarians to distinguish categories from functions that blinded them to the realization that a preposition could take a clause, not just a noun phrase, as its object. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Bing Crosby had long been deeply impressed with Howard’s racing success—he once suggested to his wife that they name their son Seabiscuit—but every attempt to emulate his friend ended in spectacular failure. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the commonest forms of tree-blindness consists of a failure to look carefully at each branch of a coordination. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I failed to realize that intelligence tests effectively muck with both your past and your future, clarifying a lifetime of bad choices and setting you up for the inevitability of future failure. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z They might have been a failure, but their failure was a good deal better than the usual run of the System’s successes. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z By 1820 it was abundantly clear that they had failed in this mission, with Jefferson himself the most visible symbol of the failure. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z To Granny, I had accomplished a miracle and some of my sinful qualities evaporated, for she felt that success spelled the reward of righteousness and that failure was the wages of sin. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z "And how often is the problem they find something that would have caused a mission failure?" The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Quentin preferred making our design changes one at a time so if we had a failure, we’d know its likely cause. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I was neither confident enough to think that I might succeed nor secure enough to bear the sense of failure if I did not. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Staggering from the examination room, Livingston sought out Lawrence to warn that he almost certainly would be refused his doctorate, due to his failure to demonstrate a grasp of basic nuclear physics. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The conversation with Jeremiah settled Luma’s mind on the question of Ashton’s: it was time for her to admit her failure and walk away. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z The failure to secure the blessings of democracy was the feature that most defined their existence in America. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z My failures weigh upon me like a yoke across my shoulders. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z They were doomed to failure, unarmed with the proper concepts. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z My actions—or failure to act—played a direct role in the death of Andy Harris. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z A woman who fixed a simulated MDV computer failure while being spun around upside-down. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “I am not doing a capable job, sire; please forgive me and believe me when I say that my failures were those of the body and mind and not of the heart.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Now my day had been an utter failure. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I would have forgiven his mistakes and his failures. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z I picked one up, made sure my feet were away from the line, but my attempt to hit it the way Lily did was a failure. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z It’s not like I wake up every day planning to be a failure. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z His punishment is the Word, and his deficiencies are failures of words—as when he grows impatient with translation and strikes out precariously on his own, telling parables in his wildly half-baked Kikongo. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z So I never found a way to ask her why she had hoped for something so large that failure was inevitable. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The atmosphere of non-thinking had been a godsend when it allowed me to forget my own failures as a teenager. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Everything had happened since then: wolves arriving at his grandmother’s door, the journey to Camp Jupiter, the weeks he’d spent in the Fifth Cohort trying not to be a complete failure. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Headmaster might have the right to talk about Neel’s failures, but how dare he drag Baba’s name through the mud? Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z If only he had not tried to cross the occupied roads, he would not be so gaunt and withdrawn now; his grief would not be burdened by failure. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z And the failure of Prohibition would provide the nation with a powerful lesson in the pitfalls of attempting to legislate morality. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z When she went back and told Charles of her failure, he sent a letter to his cousin Fox, who had visited Malvern before and had written to Charles describing the grave. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Day 207 Boom problem solved, but failure of main radio transmitter. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps his failure to approach the Alutiiq was a good thing. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z This failure to make contact with reality is, however, characteristic of almost all of America’s “art.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But as I’ve said, failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Otherwise, there is a risk of liver failure, which can be fatal. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Nothing like total failure to generate great ideas. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Granddad’s only failure was that he never had a son, but no matter. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z But reading the stories of those who claimed that they had recovered memories through hypnotherapy, I realized that I was more afraid of success than failure. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Babulya declared the rain lucky, an answer to the prayer they hadn’t even said yet, but to Anya it felt like a punctuation mark to her utter failure. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Successful experimentation builds confidence in the experimental method; failure undermines it. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The “sterilization of failures”—the weeding and culling of the human genetic garden—haunted him with its many implicit moral hazards. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “Why this failure? Could it have been prevented? What lessons could be drawn from our experiences that would enable others to avoid similar failures?” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Part of this failure to produce young is due, of course, to the fact that one or more of a pair of robins dies before the nesting cycle is completed. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Any failure of duty on their part was liable to be punished by demotion and loss of privileges. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps there was an engineering failure just at the moment of touchdown. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It was still raining and she was still a homeless failure. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z A large portion of the building’s north end collapsed, which in turn caused the failure of an elevated gallery designed to ring the interior of the building. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z But Father played the cool cat, not admitting what a miserable failure he had been so far at the Christianizing trade. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m a failure. I’m—I’m the worst satyr in the world.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z I hoped she succeeded, but I didn’t want her to feel like a failure if she didn’t. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure. ’ The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z "So if we skip inspections and testing, we have a one in forty chance of mission failure?" The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Mrs. Trotter, nobody at the agency looks at it as any indication of failure on your part—” “You think I care what the agency thinks?” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z But the omission is symptomatic of the complete failure to consider Indian motives, or even that Indians might have motives. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z His past failure to gain admission to both universities—the denial of his “right beginning”—had haunted him throughout his life. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z When wagons arrived to retrieve the downed silk sleigh and its passengers, the four of them stuck to a simple story of mechanical failure, which was questioned by no one. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z If one of the four engines quit, staying airborne was challenging; the failure of two engines was often an emergency. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Their triumphs and failures, the soul they carried, the injustices they strove to change. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z He always knew what a person could provide pending their failure to pay. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z When the coaches saw his name on the failure report, they quietly snickered. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Tom sighed and looked down at his hands again, and I could see his failure on him and I was sorry for him, aching sorry. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I was certain it would experience a non-passive failure if I tried to climb it. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Skirting or briefly inhabiting the bottom of the scoreboard does not make one a failure, but remaining there, refusing to fight, does. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The failure of his death brought back his lost prestige in a few hours. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z An absolute had first to be established in the minds of the comrades so that they could measure the success or failure of their deeds by it. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He wanted to be a failure, because only by failing would he know that he held on to a shred of his humanity. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z People probably would have remembered the St. Francis Dam better if its collapsing failure had caused the cancelation of an Academy Awards presentation, as opposed to just killing about five hundred innocent victims. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z In an instant, he turned pale—pale with anxiety for Franny’s condition, and pale, presumably, because failure had suddenly filled the room with its invariably sickening smell. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z “Neighbours, women...and I a failure, a woman who cannot even bear a child.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z The rally at his school had been a failure, and he didn’t know how many people would be discouraged from future protests because of what had happened on campus. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z They keep telling me I should talk less, mind my own business and be more modest, but I seem doomed to failure. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z This all sounds like a great idea with no chance of catastrophic failure. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps the anxiety stemmed from a fear of failure or maybe even the perceived catastrophic consequences of not meeting my own expectations. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Most survivors are “preoccupied with shame, self-loathing, and a sense of failure.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Remember that in science we learn as much from failures as we do from successes. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z "I am an error, a mistake. I am failure and malice, greed and hatred. I am guilty. We are, all of us Augurs, guilty." An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Somehow, the game had become inextricably linked in Harry’s mind with success or failure in his plans for Ginny. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z An outbreak of yellow fever in Trinidad in 1954 followed failure to control the vector mosquito because of resistance. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Behind her in that cottage was disappointment and failure. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z But he was certainly among the most prominent, and his failure to speak out weighed the more heavily for that. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It wasn’t only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Drought indeed stressed the system, but the societal disintegration in the south was due not to surpassing inherent ecological limits but the political failure to find solutions. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Prior to that, our attempts at several “dad” activities had mostly ended in failure, or worse, disaster. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The more difficult answer—the more courageous one—is to say yes, yes we should be concerned about the behavior of men trapped in ghettoized communities, but the deep failure of morality is our own. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Despite this failure in actual practice, encouraging laboratory experiments led entomologists to believe lice were unlikely to develop resistance. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z If the afternoon had not been advancing I would have tried for another word from him even if doomed to failure. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I was always set for failures since May died, and I was set for this one. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps that he did not always seem to judge his audience right—a failure of ethos. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Worrying about Max and the failure of my chutzpah. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Her defect, frightening and exotic as it was, was also a theatrical failure. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z In just one week both of her sons had gone from success to failure, from public praise to public shame. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I think of pastel icing, pink candles burning in the pale November afternoon light, and there is a sense of shame and failure. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Donovan was obviously making a bad failure of his attempt to stand up, “Are we alive now? Or is there more?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z “You’re...proud? You don’t think this was all a colossal failure?” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The cost of failure in the air was astronomical, in lives and dollars. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “A good beginning for a Solidarity Service,” thought Bernard miserably, and foresaw for himself yet another failure to achieve atonement. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z I also learned that being rich didn’t protect you from failure. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Even at that age, he’d known that if his father had been there, somehow the kite’s failure would have ruined the afternoon. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Those functions and more—every switch, every indicator, every gauge—had to be tested and retested for any whiff of possible failure. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Instead of gloating over Mark Antony’s failure in Media, Octavian praised Mark Antony’s efforts and shared the glory, pretending that both of them were victors. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Fabyan and Gallup had both died in the 1930s, so there was no reason not to be honest about their failures, but the Friedmans were inclined to be generous, too. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z And I had never quite thought of her that way, not really; it was a failure of all my previous imaginings. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z When a long-range missile exploded soon after launch, he admitted the failure. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z A nearby reporter was yelling into her microphone: “Officials are describing this as a structural failure, Dan, though no one seems to know if it is related to the storm conditions.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to colour over his failure to keep his word. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z I looked and knew the reason for the failure when I saw a deep rent right at the nearly invisible stripe of weld. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “I am what you have made me. Take all the praise, take all the blame; take all the success, take all the failure; in short, take me.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z She was a good enough Mami, fussing and scolding and giving advice, but a terrible girlfriend parent, a real failure of a Mom. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z No son of mine is going to be a failure! Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought my failure at the 2011 Nationals was an ending, but it was really a beginning—a turning point on a journey I still can’t believe I’m taking. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z And since the failure of the witches’ spell to stop his bleeding, he thought they were regarding him with fear, too, as if he was marked by some curse greater than their own powers. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Like the failure to compensate the original holders of government securities, this was unfair. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z If his failure were singular, they might readily pity him. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z This may be grounds for suspicion by the reader and a prod to self-improvement for the writer, but it is not a failure of consistency or logic. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It was drilled into me that anything less than winning was failure. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The parrot would call this the grandest of failures, I’m sure. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z My ambition and integrity were nothing to them and my failure was as meaningless as Clifton's. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z While researching the murders, I often felt that I was chasing history even as it was slipping away, and not long after we spoke, I learned that Martha had died from heart failure. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z "Accidents are the very definition of failure. Pure, complete failure." Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z The greatest failure of the Reform Act, however, has nothing to do with one’s due process rights once property has been seized in a drug investigation. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z What if my tears seemed to be nothing more than a child’s embarrassing reaction to his own failure? The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Now, as he felt weighed down by his failure to keep the Rad Lab above the turmoil of the Oppenheimer case, illness began to get the better of him. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Gabe knotted the rope around the slender trunk of a nearby sapling and glanced back at the small, leaky failure of a boat that he had been so proud of a short time before. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I also learned that to neglect one’s ancestors would bring ill-fortune and failure in life. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z "Brave? To enter into a contract with someone you hardly know? It's certain failure." What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Now she hung her head as if she were a terrible failure. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z A farmer might plant a dozen or more different varieties at one time, adjusting the mix from season to season in order to manage the risk of a crop failure. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Do you believe that previous failures always lead to later successes? Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z After Hang Wood, he had not wanted to come in here, it had reminded him of his own failure, his ultimate loss of control over things, after all the careful planning. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z A failure to realize that my chunks may not be the same as your chunks can explain why we baffle our readers with so much shorthand, jargon, and alphabet soup. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Washington was not a man who let failure get in his way. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Well, if this is the culmination of all failure, then I shall make a glorious success of it. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Back in Europe, Maskelyne and his counterparts in Germany and France were forced to the conclusion that the transit measurements of 1761 were essentially a failure. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Class contradicts their assumptions about the American dream, equal opportunity, and the reasons for their own successes and even failures. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Her sadness is my shame, the old man thought, another mark of my failure. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The next few days saw Francis becoming increasingly agitated by my failure to stick close to the molecular models. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z However, any observer who remained outside the black hole would not be affected by this failure of predictability, because neither light nor any other signal could reach him from the singularity. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But it isn’t hunger that drives millions of armed American males to forests and hills every autumn, as the high incidence of heart failure among the hunters will prove. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z He was publicly accused of inexcusable failure in the most important race of his career, but he could not defend himself. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “It was a failure by any measurement,” he wrote, “but positive in its failure. We learn from our failures. We learn, ‘Let’s not try this again.’” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The moment its doors opened for the evening we were there to drink a toast to the Pauling failure. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Yet some of the world’s failures to domesticate wild plants remain hard to explain. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Often, he would try to keep his mind from worrying about failing Kainene that night; his body was still so unreliable and he had discovered that thinking about failure made it more likely to happen. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z In 1949, after years of failure, American code breakers cracked the code. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z They knew they had played too hard; they knew they would be disciplined for their failure, and the man at the desk said quickly, “I might go to fifteen hundred.” The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z A three-day strike that is canceled on the first day is only a one-day failure; a strike that fails three days running is a fiasco. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Presidents of corporations, state governors, movie stars — people he didn’t know but nonetheless understood to be lonely, and afraid of failure. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “If a person is living out his Personal Legend, he knows everything he needs to know. There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The failure of Mars 6 is more mysterious. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, what must be the main reason for the failure of lethal crowd epidemics to arise in the Americas becomes clear when we pause to ask a simple question. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Norman did not experience a failure of nerve that night. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The first was the failure of a major New York bank, Jay Cooke and Company, in September 1873, that set off a national depression. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z Other corporate failures occurred both in Europe and in the United States, but their true meaning remained for the moment unclear—in retrospect, a good thing. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z For now, he hated the one who had created the situation, the one who bore witness to his failure, his impotence. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z What was quite clear, however, was that 44° N was completely inaccessible to radar site-certification; we had to accept a significant risk of failure with Viking 2 if it was committed to high northern latitudes. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “It is in the sterilization of failure, and not in the selection of successes for breeding, that the possibility of an improvement of the human stock lies.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The return cm the previous day of all the hounds, except Cavall and the Dog Boy, and in the evening the failure to return of Kay and Wart, had set the household in an uproar. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I wonder if Richard will ever forgive me, for my meanness to James while he was alive, and my failure to save him. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z We recognize that mobility may be difficult, but the key to our collective self-image is the assumption that mobility is always possible, so failure to move up reflects on one’s character. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z But none of the explanations change the fact that Blue Team suffered a catastrophic failure. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Its failure was a precursor to the falls that would later inevitably take place all over the country, on Wall Street in New York and State Street in Boston. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I asked whether the reason for the failure of North American Indians to domesticate North American apples lay with the Indians or with the apples. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And, of course, the grand failures are as entertaining as the great successes. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z My efforts were often hilarious, but my determination increased with failure. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Even more remarkable was Scheele’s failure to receive credit for the discovery of chlorine. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z At home I reviewed the failure and tried to evaluate my new position. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z For most important things, though, success actually requires avoiding many separate possible causes of failure. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Any kind of organized revolt against the Party, which was bound to be a failure, struck her as stupid. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Fadi paused, hating to admit his last picture had been a failure. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z In an instant, the weight of his failures dropped over him again like an eyeless hood. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z Jon had dragged himself to the common hall to sup with his friends, and the failure of the rangers' search had been all the men had been talking of. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The Pathfinder mission ended because the lander had an unknown critical failure. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z And later, of course, the shock of her failure. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z For example, a smallpox epidemic devastated the Aztecs after the failure of the first Spanish attack in 1520 and killed Cuitlahuac, the Aztec emperor who briefly succeeded Montezuma. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z How many winners were losers, successes failures, rich men poor men? Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z I could imagine, for example, a key instrument failure in Chryse just after an unfortunate crash landing in Cydonia. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A retrial was requested, but Ray, seventy, died of liver failure on April 23, 1998, before the new trial could take place.5 After King’s assassination, I worried that the Civil Rights dream might end. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The police routinely arrested masses of people for pass violations, possession of liquor, and failure to pay the poll tax. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Radar, your failure to bop that lovely honeybunny is the greatest humanitarian tragedy of our time.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z But quite the opposite results were achieved, as the dancers danced themselves to utter exhaustion, and one by one they began to expire from heart attacks, strokes, and complete organ failure. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He plodded along for another few months, then rebounded with three moderate wins in the fall of 1935 before sinking back into failure. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z At her elbow, Briony was telling Leon about the play she had written for him, and lamenting her failure to stage it. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Even public failure, for then you’re guaranteed a greater audience for your eventual rising. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z P. G. Wodehouse’s Right Ho, Jeeves offers what is among the funniest instances of a failure of decorum in all of literature. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z We tried to be reasonable and consider only the most likely possible failures. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Beyond these important, admirable goals, it also had a more immediate purpose: it would undoubtedly reduce the school’s notoriously high failure rate, which had become an embarrassment to the school and to the school board. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “I ought to kill her,” said Thor, still stinging from his own failure to launch the ship, and he grasped the handle of Mjollnir, his hammer. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Think also that you know of a good reason for your failure, which you have tried to hide, tried pathetically to hide and overlook, for five and twenty years. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It was only after five solid years of failure that he began to worry. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z But it was still hard to predict the success or failure of the new Rolls Royce dealership. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Those who were failures, near death, didn’t like working, bad with money, or cheap politicians were specifically not welcome, the same pamphlet said. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z A main reason she was going there was her failure to take the college boards, a requirement for admission at most four-year schools. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “As if it was your own fault. As if you were a failure somehow, just because you didn’t know what it meant to smudge.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I could all too easily picture the smug expressions of condolence I’d receive from those who’d been certain of my failure from the get-go. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Annoyed, unused to failure, he sprang again, this time making sure of success. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Her name was Betty but she was called Teapot's Mamma because being his mamma was precisely her major failure. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z He was worried he might become one of those ghosts if they lost this war—eternally doomed to pay for his failures, assuming there was anyone left to summon him. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I’d say it’s twenty-five percent blame for the kids, twenty-five percent blame for the parents, twenty-five percent blame for the building, and twenty-five percent blame for the environment—that equals a hundred percent failure! Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z "Not every Stanley Yelnats has been a failure," Stanley's mother often pointed out, whenever Stanley or his father became so discouraged that they actually started to believe in the curse. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z Not to call off a contest, certain of my failure, before she even looked at my drawings. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z First the failure to get in touch with the art history department at City College. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Maybe he wouldn’t feel like such a failure then. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Because failure is something I don’t know how to do. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z By the time Cicero reaches his peroration, he has asked something in the order of fifty questions to Catiline—each designed to make his failure to go into voluntary banishment look bizarre and unnatural. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Or is there some general principle of failure basic to the whole procedure? Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z The majority had careers that could only be considered ordinary, and a surprising number ended up with careers that even Terman considered failures. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z What really struck Ellsberg was that government leaders seemed to have learned nothing from three years of failure in Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The voice was raving about some failure of the laboratory and I felt a swift uneasiness. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z But they would talk about past failures, like the cereal in the shape of little bowling pins and balls. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Westley let go of the vine without a qualm, because he had come too far to fail now; failure was not even a problem to be considered. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z But after all of these years, I had finally come to realize that depending on anyone other than myself was a recipe for failure. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Cully looked down at his masters, opened his beak in an angry pant of failure, and remained motionless. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The Klansmen shared a similar past of poverty and failure, were haunted by the same familiar demons, and hated a common enemy. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z And the study found that there was a group of real successes and there was a group of real failures, and that the successes were far more likely to have come from wealthier families. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z But she made no effort to swim and Dad finally had to admit that the experiment was a failure. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Some wit had carved it into the cinder block so that each time he looked in the mirror he reminded himself that the biggest failure in life is selfcommunication . Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Doubts only lead to hesitation, and hesitation to failure. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The difficulties of execution were not insuperable; but I feared that there should be no vigor in my rendering when my senses were clogged with terror at crowds and a crippling imagination of imminent failure. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z And only now, after working this same land for ten years, am I coming to understand the length and breadth of outsiders’ failure to impose themselves on Africa. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Many dropped out, most blaming themselves for their failure. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Man, that thing smelled like booze and fear and failure. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z The power failure had been more than twice as long as any other so far. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z By extension, the failure of a race or ethnic group to move up reflects very poorly on the group as a whole. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z She believed that displays of emotion signaled a certain failure between people. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Their failure to conduct tests was reflected in their inability to agree on the most basic points. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Just tell me how mad you are at me, what a failure I am, how this isn’t how you raised me, how disappointed you are.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Horan went over the failure of the strategic hamlet, the land mine, and being taken prisoner. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Suddenly, everything they thought they knew about their successes and failures in Berlin seemed topsy-turvy. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Were Nixon and Kissinger really unwilling to learn from the failure of four presidents before them? Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Booth’s skill at avoiding the manhunters increased the government’s embarrassment over its failure to find him. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, what cries out for explanation is the failure of food production to appear, until modern times, in some ecologically very suitable areas that are among the world’s richest centers of agriculture and herding today. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Yes, he did kill Abraham Lincoln, but in every other way, Booth was a failure. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “We’re talking failure to the square root,” was the way he bluntly described it. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Along the walls of the room were long charts with zigzagging red and black lines that traced the success or failure of some experiment. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “I started you with memories of pleasure. My previous failure gave me the wisdom to do that.” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Amy’s lecture put the matter in a new light, and for the first time it did look weak and selfish to lose heart at the first failure, and shut himself up in moody indifference. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Pomposity is a failure of decorum, as is vulgarity or boastfulness. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z And we get sick if the milk delivery is late and nearly die of heart failure if there is an elevator strike. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “But trust me, nothing you could do would begin to compare to the torment he'll face once the Commandant gets her hands on him. He was guarding me. He failed. My mother hates failure.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Saying mass incarceration is an abysmal failure makes sense, though, only if one assumes that the criminal justice system is designed to prevent and control crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Forty- five million Americans would tune in to witness the ultimate success or failure of MR-3. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z If there are any more, it could cause a cascading failure in the grid—and with so many electrical workers AWOL, there’s no telling when such a thing would be resolved. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z The failure or success of this generation of Mexicans in the United States will determine the place that Mexicans will hold here in years to come, Sarukhan said, and the outlook is not encouraging. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z I had always assumed we had an unspoken understanding about these things: that she didn’t really mean I was a failure, and I really meant I would try to respect her opinions more. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z She considered herself a failure for not having stopped the wind bomb from exploding; but the truth was, she’d saved the entire crew from becoming ice sculptures in Quebec. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Scowling, Snape said, “The Dark Lord does not expect Draco to succeed. This is merely punishment for Lucius’s recent failures. Slow torture for Draco’s parents, while they watch him fail and pay the price.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z On January 6, 1884, Mendel died of kidney failure in Brno, his feet swollen with fluids. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z What if there was an electrical failure on board the spacecraft and the astronauts needed to navigate back home by the stars, like the mariners of a simpler age? Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z One time last March, he dressed up as a battered drowning victim to commemorate the catastrophic failure of the St. Francis Dam. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z But worse than all this was his sense of failure. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z During the school year she gave us careful instructions to bring home every single paper that the teachers handed out at school, especially in January, and failure to follow these instructions resulted in severe beatings. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Now I will pay attention to my work and then I must eat the tuna so that I will not have a failure of strength. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z It buzzed a little bit, and I had a brief vision of it experiencing a non-passive failure and exploding into a billowing cloud of smoke and motor particles, but then it got up to speed. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z All right, I made mistakes, especially in Minneapolis, and these mistakes were at the time an occasion for feelings of failure and shame. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1973, a quite similar sequence of events occurred with the Mars 6 lander, in that case the failure occurring within one second of touchdown. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But the explanation was a failure—she looked at them as if she thought they were lying. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z As a crime reduction strategy, mass incarceration is an abysmal failure. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Two of the Atlas’s last five sallies had ended in failure. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The water dislodged every rock she tried to place in the gash, each failure creating more death. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Even if the rover has a catastrophic failure, I'll be fine. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Honest mistakes must be clearly distinguished from a failure to take pains. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Despite the noble lineage of his aerial maps, the flight had been a failure. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull had come up and told him that only girls and babies cried but this had served only to increase Ben’s sense of failure. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z All true—yet, as the team’s leader, he knew that ultimately he was responsible for the team’s success or failure. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Those looking for a tale of cultural superiority can find it in zero; those looking for failure can find it in the wheel. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z They never admitted personal failure or cowardice; to do so might be used against them in coming elections. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Lacking words, categories, or language to describe what had happened, they called it, finally, a case of “fulminating liver failure.” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I could hardly count my Western trip a failure,” he wrote, “for I had seen Chicago.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z But she also had a feeling that if she didn’t see the quest through, if she didn’t face her fate bravely, she would still die —in cowardice and failure. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Closely on the heels of this failure was another talented musician who played fiddle, excellent as the two before him. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z An adult mind that is brimming with chunks is a powerful engine of reason, but it comes with a cost: a failure to communicate with other minds that have not mastered the same chunks. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Is my sin a failure of virtue, or of competence? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Though I should feel a total failure, my time on the prairie has branded this hope on my heart: next year it will be better. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z If he was going to be a failure, at least he could have something to look forward to. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z What if the band was a big failure? The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z A preacher stepped up and read something out of his Bible, and I stood looking at the crowd with a sense of failure. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z This time, my dilemma was the result not of failure, but of success—my back-to-back all-around wins at the 2013 and 2014 Worlds, which had brought sponsors to my door. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Sometimes she wondered if this was her own failure rather than his, if perhaps she lacked a certain strength that would compel him to include her in his pain. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z How I tried to save Therese and was forgiven my failure when she died. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The president declared détente—the attempt to improve relations between America and Russia—a failure. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “So,” said Estella, “I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Barring a complete computer failure or other critical event, Vogel's vast knowledge of astrodynamics would never come into play. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t talk to me, you failure. How can I play canasta when there’s a psycho in distress?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z On the whole, these projects were a failure. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Then I would only feel more like a failure. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Billy knew he had been infallible before that, and now he was capable of failure. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z It was an encouraging kind of nervousness, much preferable to the dread of certain failure. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The follies and failures of Aegon the Unworthy did not concern him, but he was full of doubts and misgivings. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The others were looking to him as a leader, and he could only look back at them as a failure. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z They are the vehicle to challenge a conviction based on ineffective counsel, the State's failure to disclose evidence, and most important, new evidence of innocence. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The result was again the start of farming dependent on crops from elsewhere, a failure to domesticate local species, and a massive modern replacement of human population. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He was warned that unless treated, he could experience total kidney failure, seizures, and even dementia. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Another said, “There seemed to be a tacit agreement to make our efforts a failure.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Or feel like failures because they couldn’t do the impossible. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z Alchemists promised it—had been promising it for centuries, and if they achieved purity and perfection in anything, it was the purity and perfection of their failure to produce it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The Republican Congress was devoted to Barack’s failure above all else. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z His transgressions were small ones, always: shoes on the wrong feet, schcolwork misplaced, failure to study adequately for a quiz. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Shouldn’t the punishment for failure be the awful knowledge of that failure? Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z They end each year with failure, but hope that when the clock strikes twelve, they can begin the new year with a clean slate. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z To be broke in New York was to feel a constant, needling sense of failure, as you were regularly confronted by people who had not only more but much, much more. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z I didn’t want him to see me as a failure now. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Willie tried to enlist in the army and was turned down; whereupon he threw up his job with the milk company, came home, announced that he was a failure, and went to bed. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “The men down at Cape Canaveral say they learn more from a failure than a success,” I countered. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Clearly the possibility of failure at the exposition had occurred to Olmsted and troubled him. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Every human being held it as an article of faith that the farm would go bankrupt sooner or later, and, above all, that the windmill would be a failure. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Farmer and Jim reluctantly agreed that all patients had to complete the standard WHO protocol before their cases could be deemed “treatment failures.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z This was my first chance ever, really, to build something basically from the ground up: Success or failure would depend almost entirely on my efforts, not those of my boss or anyone else. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z It seemed like only moments ago I was savoring the idea of a possible Olympic medal, and now my eyes were filled with the tears of failure. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z It was absurd to think that the great Scythe Marie Curie, Grande Dame of Death, would care so much for her—and would even think there could be any failure on her own part. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Even when your plane is flying in a windless sky, a mechanical failure can make it difficult or impossible to fly. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Instruction number seven said: “Attach handle ‘H’ here for manual operation in case of power failure or in areas where electricity is unavailable. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z History is a cumulative record of success and failure, and the pretense that it can be something other than that is a peculiar shibboleth of historical writing over the last fifty years. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Still, the MTA’s failure marked only a temporary stumble in Lawrence’s influence over domestic nuclear policy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z So I made myself respectable and tried to slip in behind Mrs. Kirke, but as she is short and I’m tall, my efforts at concealment were rather a failure. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z She paused, her gaze straying to the four sealed letters she’d already prepared: one for each of the Masters, to inform them of the events of the previous night, and of her failure. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z In short, he warned, failure loomed for programs that were now judged a success. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z And, somehow, her failure to remember to give him the cigarettes, when she knew how much he smoked, made her weep the harder. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z On the last night, with my trunk packed and my car sold to the grocer, I went over and looked at that huge incoherent failure of a house once more. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Word that the bank was near failure caused the street out front to fill with children pleading for their money. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “I know that. They hammered out those rules after the failure ten years ago.” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z This second commercial failure was less important to Nicolas, whose stomach and conscience had also been upset by the slaughter. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Lawrence feared that the failure at Y-12 would destroy the army’s confidence in the entire bomb project, with billions of dollars—indeed, the entire war effort—hanging in the balance. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He never recovered from his injuries, and shortly after Christmas that year he died of heart failure at the age of thirty-four, leaving Marian’s mother to raise their three girls. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z Manners Mistress would consider me an utter failure. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z This plan could be a total failure, but at least I had Trevor back. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z “All I need is courage. Would you have Dome remember me as a failure?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z If this is the attitude, then everything is destined for failure. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z The prospect of kidney failure and dialysis for Dr. Musoke created a climate of emergency at the hospital—he was well liked by his colleagues, and they didn’t want to lose him. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “A mistake isn’t a failure,” Candice said, pulling at a loose thread. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Can’t I escape visions of my loss and utter failure anywhere, at least in my own freaking backyard? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z They seemed to think it was a failure of planning. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He checked himself in time to turn the nod into a bow of respect, then fled, leaving the scene of his failure but not the knowledge of it. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z In the days, weeks, months, and even years that followed, millions of words would be written about the causes of Prohibition, the reasons for its failure, and its effects on the nation. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z A familiar modern example is the narrow failure, on July 20, 1944, of the assassination attempt against Hitler and of a simultaneous uprising in Berlin. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear,” says Four. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z The Sicilian flogged his mind to find an answer, but he found only failure. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z And for me, it felt like that’s exactly what she was planting—a suggestion of failure long before I’d even tried to succeed. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Suffering, continual seeking and continual failure were written in his look Siddhartha saw it and smiled. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z The failure to let one of the world’s leading scientists attend a completely nonpolitical meeting would have been expected from the Russians. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z He was a quiet young man who warmed his sense of failure to his bosom. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He could prove himself to be a failure here and now, and perhaps not have to endure any more of this. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z So this box contains every detail of my journey—every challenge, failure, triumph, and success. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Alyce stood watching from a place under the stairs, unwilling to be part of the scene, for the sounds and smells were all too familiar and spoke of her failure with Emma Blunt. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Single moments contain the potential for complete failure, always. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z The other night Dr. Strauss was saying that an experi- mental failure, the disproving of a theory, was as important to the advancement of learning as a success would be. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z He allowed the petition to lapse, however, and eventually the court dismissed it for “failure to prosecute.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It was unfair to blame her for the fictional zero-sum game of her successes equaling his failures. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z His failures, like tonight, seemed to prove it. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I might have worried even more about Vanguard’s failure if I hadn’t had rocket problems of my own. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z And he grieved because he was a failure. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Among the many symptoms associated with overexposure are blindness, insomnia, kidney failure, hearing loss, cancer, palsies, and convulsions. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The failure of the police to recover the body had caused the delay. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The significance of this cannot be overstated, for the failure to acknowledge the humanity and dignity of all persons has lurked at the root of every racial caste system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The ground for his refusal was a failure on my part, one Saturday night, to pay him for my week’s time. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z Abra stirred bubbles delicately with her straw and thought how her father had changed since the lettuce failure. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The standard was “simple negligence,” as the law puts it: “a failure to exercise a degree of care that a reasonable and prudent individual would exercise under the same or similar circumstances.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Two months later, Project Vanguard, managed by the US Naval Research Laboratory, also managed to launch a satellite, though the achievement was overshadowed by Vanguard’s many rocket failures. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z However, the simple fact that they have been resounding failures in our century does give them a certain spiritual quality. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z At the time, extrajudicial lynchings, particularly of blacks in the South, were one of the most egregious failures of the American legal system. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z While Ma and Pa are trying to have faith in Vincent's new path, Uncle Cent can’t forgive him for his failure. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z For them, the city represented something new under the Southern sun: a place where anyone could prosper, where ambition and hard work, not skin color, determined one’s chances for success or failure. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The Hab has emergency flashlights in many locations in case of critical power failure. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Pilot and navigator error, mechanical failure, and bad luck were killing trainees at a stunning rate. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z I understand my parents being a little protective, but I’m no failure. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z This would be failure on a grand scale, even for me. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Again and again, the monkey tried to bite, a sure sign of failure of strength in the arms. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z I was so happy and excited, but not scared that it might be a failure. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z He was the only one here with the presence of mind to check the cause of the power failure at the control building. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Kanue, Natnael, and especially Mandela had put their hopes and energy into this new version of their team, and Luma wondered if she was setting them up for failure by keeping the season alive. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Things only got worse when, in the midst of the frenetic effort to track down the causes of failure, an incensed General Groves arrived on the scene. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z There were many other reasons for the colossal failure as well. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z But I didn’t really feel hurt by his failure to write. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I suppose that Coin has assembled this strange assortment of people as witnesses to my failure. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Miss Emily had told us it could be painful and a big failure if you didn’t get wet enough and this was my one real worry. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z And what accounts for the failure of Aboriginal Australians to pass beyond the stage of hunter-gatherers with stone tools? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z "Ares 3 was a failure, but we can salvage something from it. We're funded for five Ares missions. I think we can get Congress to fund a sixth." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He had a notoriously high failure rate, which of course made him the anathema of Carter High School. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z In a world in which success was the only virtue, he had resigned himself to failure. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The combination of Soviet successes in landing on Venus and Soviet failures in landing on Mars naturally caused us some concern about the U.S. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I was still pretty much an epic failure in the love department. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z When the Reichstag building burned down, which became the pretext for Hitler’s suppression of political dissent, Szilard was dismayed by the failure of his German friends to grasp the developing reality. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Each time Captain Black forged ahead of his competitors, he swung upon them scornfully for their failure to follow his example. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Those who would take seriously the boy’s success—and his failure—would be forced to realize how great is the change any academic undergoes, how far one must move from one’s past. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I had come to discuss my failure to recall my dreams, but as usual, my teacher had sent my thoughts in an entirely new direction. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z I was despairing over this latest failure, made worse by the fact that Rich seemed blind to it all. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Whatever happened afterward, whatever success, or failure, or happiness, or horror, it could not be forgotten. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Granny Tipper died of heart failure eight months before summer fifteen on Beechwood. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z As he expected, they were disappointed over the failure at Efrafa and full of indignation at the ill-treatment of Holly and his companions. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z We in the Youth League had seen the failure of legal and constitutional means to strike at racial oppression; now the entire organization was set to enter a more activist stage. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Returning home means a measure of safety, but it also means failure. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z The cause of death was recorded as “heart failure,” according to documents at the church cemetery where the baby was buried. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The National Hospital of Iceland, where Bobby died of renal failure, hadn’t saved any of his blood. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It is of course tragic that her marriage is now ending in failure. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z His failure to do any of these things I experienced as the most incredible benevolence and luck. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z However, there were two men in that little band who scorned to weigh the chances of success or failure, to whom the extreme peril of the attempt was a reason for making it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The failures of your predecessors will guide you. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z She looked up, while I still gazed at her: no start, no increase or failure of colour betrayed emotion, consciousness of guilt, or fear of detection. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Their failure to care wasn't just appealing, but seductive. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z To that end, the report recommended the industrialization of the African areas, noting that any program of development that did not aim at providing opportunities for Africans in their own regions was doomed to failure. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But for President Johnson, it was a profound personal and political failure. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z We played until my calves burned and my lungs were in danger of experiencing a non-passive failure. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z “Oh, that one. He might not even get a name at the next Ceremony. They’re already talking about keeping him here another year. He’s not doing well. They call it failure to thrive.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z There had once been missions to colonize Mars, to explore Jupiter’s moons, and even to launch to the stars beyond, but every mission had ended in utter and disastrous failure. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Afterward, the family was told that the patient died from heart failure or pneumonia. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Our birth names were irrelevant, as were our past acquaintances and past accomplishments and past failures. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Their attempt to aid South Vietnam was more than a failure: they had actually helped arm the enemy. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “And if we can’t?” said Constance, as if she rather expected failure. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z "I am not going back to Castle Black a failure on my first ranging. We will find these men." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z My failure to produce these other members of my family tells against me. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Rosellini appeared to accept the failure of his hypothesis with equanimity. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The advantage of only having to feed themselves, and not having to support five extravagant human beings as well, was so great that it would have taken a lot of failures to outweigh it. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Everything unfortunate that has ever happened to me has stemmed from failure to follow one of the rules. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z His final years were ones of failure and poverty. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Their absolute failure to get any sort of a reaction from their victim was not only discouraging, it was weird enough to spoil the fun for even the bravest of bullies. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Did a linguistic or cultural factor account for the otherwise puzzling failure of complex Andean civilizations to develop writing? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Somehow, I didn’t feel such a failure talking with Chase this way. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z She felt the weight of failure hang heavy on her. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z And if she could prove it—if she could catch him this time—it would more than make up for the failure of letting him go. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z “After all I’m older than you. Old enough to recognize failure and stop dreaming, so I’m told.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Every conversational and epistolary road sign and guide- post that she had held up before the girls pointed to their father’s final, terrible failure. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Tortoise said nothing about the failure of Snail’s crop, although in private he was laughing. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z Those reports focused on the failures and weaknesses of the North Korea government. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z There will doubtless be thousands of ribald failures, but in the world’s history artists have always been drawn where they are welcome and well treated. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Just so I don’t look like a total failure. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Maybe her plan hadn’t been such a failure after all. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z No one wanted to broadcast their failures in responsibility. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Serena Joy didn’t do this herself, she made speeches instead, but she presented this failure of hers as a sacrifice she was making for the good of all. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z In terms of the size of assets, the bank’s failure was second largest in U.S. history. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z We spend so much time being afraid of failure, afraid of rejection. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “But she also made a big mistake. Maybe that doesn’t make her a failure in our eyes, but the world doesn’t always see people in the way we want.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Father had not had to release a single newchild this year, so Gabriel would have represented a real failure and sadness. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z I don’t know many of the people here, but that’s not a failure of accessing. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z As he looked out at the rows of men welcoming him, he felt the old shame of poverty, failure, and purposelessness melt away. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z They cheered and booed me in equal amounts for a minute or so, enjoying my failure more than they had the song itself. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The evening could still be wrenched from the jaws of failure. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I stop before I confess to feeling like a failure at everything else. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z “Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures,” he tells Theo. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The next Saturday news of a truly stunning failure stuttered through the submarine cable that linked Britain and America. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z A great circular list of failure and worry. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z The inference being that failure was coming, that it was inevitable, that it had already half arrived. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z She followed him, leaving us boys to contemplate what had been, after all, our scorched, stinking failures. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Severe cataracts had left Stanton virtually blind, and heart failure made her weak and breathless. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Dozens of other failures occurred around the country. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z As if only green and blue uniforms were okay, but brown ones meant failure. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z So by the early years of the nineteenth century, fossils had taken on a certain inescapable importance, which makes Wistar’s failure to see the significance of his dinosaur bone all the more unfortunate. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z But he never published the manuscript, because he was slowly coming to believe that the Church’s efforts in New Spain had been a failure. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Ay, that was one of her failures, she explained to them, a child's double-compartment drinking glass with an outsized, built-in straw. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z It is no longer possible to stockpile materials well in advance; what today may be the most promising of insecticidal chemicals may be the dismal failure of tomorrow. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Larson asked whether I didn’t think it was wrong when companies had something to gain by seeing people sentenced to prison—in other words, when they had a stake in their failure. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I guess you could call it a "failure," but I prefer the term "learning experience." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z They had simply sent her here because they needed a place to put her after her failure as a Birthmother. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z As had happened time and again, they went back to work with no gains, their effort a dismal failure. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z But our intimacy had been public, and so our slow failure was going to be public, too. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Alyce forgot for a moment that she was no longer the midwife’s apprentice but now a failure and, wiping her floury hands on her skirt, ran outside. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Followed by laughter and the good-natured ribbing that usually followed one of Luke’s epic failures on this front. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z All his life he had lived as a failure and now he was going to die as a failure and the sooner the better, he stated. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z But he made that prediction before the bombs fell—indeed, it was during that grim period when the failure of the Alpha racetracks had laid him out in a Chicago hospital room. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Their eyes spoke of failure and they came back to Ogden Loring like ships looking for a safe harbor. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Dell tried to think of things to motivate her, or at the very least ease her distress, but so far, he had been a failure. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Not for a broken lute string and the chance of failure. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z There were goals, rewards, and instant punishments for failure. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He pushed back against the feelings of failure that permeated so many African American communities, urging people to quit with the self-pity and take charge of their own destiny. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z With only a week remaining before the Santa Anita Handicap, Seabiscuit had to run well or his attempted comeback would have to be deemed a failure. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Indeed the death of a patient always gave him a sense of failure and hopeless ignorance. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z |
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