Failing in sentence

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The people are appalled when he reveals the naked statue portraying truth, after failing to lead them to it and the few that did, help along the way.

In the end, failing to gain any followers, he must enter into the gates of heaven alone.

the main failing with both these movies is that the creators thought that setting the films in our time would make us be interested in the story more as if it may one day happen to us.

I suppose we can say the same about American directors attempting to make a Polish movie while failing miserably in the process.

Most importantly, this movie gets a failing score in its persuasive power; it's clearly intended for those who've already formed their opinions.

The story revolves around a 23 year old inventor named Brian Foster whose systems at his boss's company seems to keep failing, Brian is also dating the boss's daughter named Casey.

Abortions, friends cheating on friends, jerking off in bathrooms, bad jobs, and failing school.

Those prophetic words were spoken by William Holden (as a war reporter) to the beauteous Jennifer Jones (as a Eurasian doctor), explaining his failing marriage on the beach.

right the hospital scene with Holly and Shannon was done brilliantly it starts off with Piper On A gurney looking very badly injured, the docs race her into a resuscitation room & they move her from the gurney onto a bed and Prue Holds Her Hand from that point on it is obvious that Piper is having a lot of trouble breathing and her lungs are failing, as she turns to beg of Prue to not leave her side she gaps "don't go i love you and then her pulse drops and she goes into cardiac arrest & the monitor shows a clear flat line & the nurses go into full out trauma mode & bring in a defibrillator Prue Steps back from the bed in horror as the doctors desperately try to shock her dying sisters heart but there is no response and she is tragically pronounced dead well great scene well done girls

i get that, although i think the wife is a bit stiff in her role - and not convincingly attracted to the "stranger" - so that's a failing - the unspoken bonding between the Rickman character and the "stranger" is better done, even if we are not sure what it is.

Clearly, John Huston meant to show that he was still "in the full glory of some passion" by making it, even as his body was failing him.

And (in the most consistent failing of most 20th century sci-fi) the computers, telephones and other hardware are all big, colorful and clunky (right out of Patrick McGoohan's "The Prisoner").

What is college, a reward for failing high school?

To me it means that failing to open your hart to the others could rob you of happiness and leave you with an empty live.

Seriously, the part where he used X-rays that show his mother-in-law's cancer to bilk more money from his father, then utilizes a subtle twist on the same scam to avoid eviction from his fancy home for failing to pay the lease on time -- it's almost too much.

Failing to do that, he commits ritual suicide in an ending that hits you like a ton of bricks.

And as much as every critical bone in my body cries out to give this movie a failing score, gosh darn it, I'm going to give it a much better score.

In the book he was fending off a jerk union official while struggling with a business that was failing.

The story then witters on about a psychologist and her failing marriage which is tied into the failing marriage of wife-killing blackout driver.

When I was in school I made a film about a couple roaming around in the trees and talking, and I realized halfway through editing that this was not just a failing aesthetic strategy but a cliché of Canadian cinema: sodden lyricism married to vacant, metaphor-burdened stabs at social commentary.

This camp is also not very fun as these kids are put to real training and the instructors get all over them for failing missions or not doing the right things.

I think the biggest failing something can have is to be boring.

Newcomer Prashant Raj playing Jai-equivalent Raj has no acting chops to speak of and can't strum up any of the brooding intensity Amitabh Bachchan brought to the part in the original film.As Hero, the new-age Veeru, Ajay Devgan is entirely hopeless, failing miserably in his attempts at comedy.

Ursula's sister, Morganna (who basically looks like Ursula, if she were to dye herself green and go on the Ally Macbeal starvation diet) shows up and, after trying to do the newborn tyke in, and failing, prophesizes doom for the characters.

I could see the first segment trying to be horror and failing, but what the hell is the second segment?

I tried twice to get through this film, succeeding the first time - and it was like pulling teeth - and failing the second time despite a great DVD transfer.

I'm guessing the writers have never read a book of any kind, much less a Dickens novel, and certainly not David Copperfield, and that they based their screenplay on another poorly written screenplay, possibly an adaptation of Copperfield, though just as likely anything else, from which they randomly discarded about a third of the pages and then shuffled the rest, along with some random pages from a screenplay that someone's eighth grade nephew had written for an English class, and for which he had received a failing grade.

And, failing these two points, it lacks the humor of a successful parody.

In the opening scene of "Malta Story" Mr A.Guinness bore such a startling resemblance to Noel Coward that I fully expected his first words to be "Certain women need striking regularly - like gongs" or some such world - weary bon mot.Unfortunately his dialogue is hardly deathless prose and even the Master would have had trouble bringing it to life.Indeed Mr Guinness wanders through the picture as if looking for a focal point and failing to find one.And therein lies the fatal weakness of the whole movie.Mr J.Hawkins likewise gives up early on and ends up giving a "Jack Hawkins" performance without an ounce of individuality.It could have been spliced from any of a dozen British war movies.Many of the early fifties usual suspects turn up and do their schtick to very little purpose.

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