confession of failure

Meeting in a nowhere place was a confession of failure.

Genocide would be a confession of failure, in that sense.

Will it be seen as a reprieve for George or a public confession of failure?

No, not by defaulting: too obvious a confession of failure.

It would be a confession of failure and I don't like being associated with failure.

We change our tactics," said Vercingetorix, who felt lighter after this confession of failure. "

It risks being considered a confession of failure foretold.

War, by definition, is a confession of failure.

He was brazen in his inward confession of failure.

Such encouragement of the athletic cult is a confession of failure.

Chrissy's Song A confession of failure - mine and just about everyone else's.

All transplantation is a confession of failure of prevention, early diagnosis and treatment.

A confession of failure for every one of you who ends up in the stripy hole.

His decision finally to publish them represents, in a way, a confession of failure: failure to go far beyond the "autobiographical level".

His confession of failure is an especially heartbreaking moment in a movie that is full of them.

Even in the dead of winter, the wood man will make a delivery, though calling him feels like a sober confession of failure.

'Goods-only' at this stage is a confession of failure caused by your own lack of insight.

And the cooks immediately launch into self-flagellating confessions of failure of the "I could have done so much more" variety.

The Australian divisions would "strongly resent" the confession of failure that a withdrawal would entail.

Mr. Greenstein said the letter to President Clinton was "a confession of failure."

As Clarke and Swain observed in their survey of federal government performance reports: …we could find not a single confession of failure.

This was as near a confession of failure as she ever made, till the day of her burning, if she really made one then.

In his last major speech before the election campaign, Mr Cameron made a remarkable confession of failure over his party's ability to get its message across.

In the end my job petered out, and I had to do as I might have done all along-cable for money, an unpleasant confession of failure.

Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect- simply a confession of failure.