No wonder she sees my impending divorce as a personal and professional failure on her part.

Doctor Thomas said cheerfully, "You're not counting my professional failures."

Talking about disruption involves admitting and examining failure, professional and personal.

You're what's left of the single biggest personal and professional failure of his life.

But if politicians cannot successfully steer the agenda, then that reflects a professional failure for which the price may be high.

More often than not, his clinical experience has shown, such people blame themselves for their social, academic and professional failures.

At the book's conclusion this "professional failure" finds himself in close proximity to a young woman no less drab than he.

But above all this prevailed the humiliating awareness of my total professional failure.

I had gotten used to the feeling of professional failure over the month and a half.

That single fact, for any FBI agent, was a professional failure.