We study history not merely to be warned by failures or inspired by shining examples: at bottom we have a belief that somehow the lives and struggles of those men in the distant past are still quite as important as our own.
In this field we find one of the worst failures of the commercial films, and their utterly unimaginative corporation promoters.
Failures of the spoken drama may become the stars of the picture palace.
His friends, who had helped him, left him one by one; his failures continued, but he would not give up.
But these failures tempered him for the greater hardships that followed.
It has been stated by one of the leading jurists in the United States that the cause of nine out of ten of the failures in the legal profession is laziness, so common in lawyers, after being admitted to the bar.
Behind him there was a string of failures that were a constant source of wonderment to him, since he had not been too scrupulous!
Sylvia nowadays heard more about his successes and failures than when her father was alive, and she begged very hard to be allowed to help on some of his expeditions.
And there should be no despair on account of the failures already suffered.
Another and another plan is pursued; still, some striking failures take place.
Neither an unbroken series of worldly failuresnor the chastisement of his god have ever shaken the faith of a first-class prophet in himself or, as he would doubtless prefer to say, in his Divinity.
This lack of distinction did not apply so much to what were re-regarded as moral indiscretions as it did to the larger failures to recognize man's relationship to man in the industrial and commercial activities of life.
A catalogue of Gounod's failures would have no significance except as showing that his industry and energy were not relaxed by public neglect.
Our composer took his failures with great phlegm and good nature, based, perhaps, on an invincible self-confidence.
As with most other speculative business investments, the great land companies rarely realized for the originators and investors anything like what was expected; and the majority were absolute failures in every sense.
If she finds that such troubles enable her to understand her children better, and reveal their own minds to themselves, and if such failures help them to a more careful self-rule, the event may be well worth the pain.
Finally, however, I succeeded in getting what I now have the pleasure of showing you; but I dare not tell you of the beautiful failures I made before this picture was obtained.
Most of my failures have been caused by the lack of bright sunlight, under-exposure, or movement of the bird the instant the picture was taken; but one good photograph is sufficient reward for many trials.
Much patience is needed, asfailures are very numerous.
This was the beginning of a series of failures in San Francisco, that extended through the next two years.
He knew better, and his was among the failures which were respectable enough to deserve self-respect.
The editor was a helpless drudge whose successes, if he made any, belonged to his writers; but whose failures might easily bankrupt himself.
Failures in the ordinary rendering of a monologue are frequently occasioned by lack of imagination.
Having made so many failures in that quarter, I had some forebodings that I would again meet with disappointments; but I had long since resolved to let my old enemies have no peace while I labored under no greater disadvantages than I did.
I was again doomed to disappointment; but on the third day, late in the evening, as I lay brooding over the many failures I had made to inflict justice upon those who were seeking my blood, Mr. Oller made his appearance.
For out of these failures has been built a superstructure of analytical investigations which surpasses the most sanguine expectations of those who had labored and failed.
One of the first failures was led by a man who had been working actively against slavery, but who had come to think that the only way to attack it was to try to do away with all private property whatever.
On the whole, the foreign policy of Palmerston had been more ostentatious than wise, and its failures were as conspicuous as its successes.
Because of repeated failures in his studies, ambition and hope had left him.
When you know you are on the right track, do not let any failures dim your vision or discourage you, for you cannot tell how close you may be to victory.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "failures" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
