This thing goes through, or fails over my dead body.
Did the whole thing fail because he died so soon?
She had been sure the whole thing would fail, for her at least.
Did the bloody thing always fail first time and go the second?
Lou is often a positive person, even when things fail.
"I cannot understand why such a simple thing fails to appeal to you!"
A hidden thing meant to stay that way, and failing.
"There was no planning for what happened after the crisis, and that's where things failed."
In her experience, most things like that failed to work.
That was the sole reason why the whole thing failed in the end.