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[ verb ] be unsuccessful
Examples "Where do today's public schools fail?" "The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably" Used in print (Howard Nemerov, "Themes and Methods: The Early...)The horrifying humor , the specifically sexual embarrassment of the joke gone_wrong , the monstrous image of the fat man dressed_up as a whore dressing_up as a baby ; the epiphany of that quivering flesh ; the bringing_together around it of the secret liaison between indolent , mindless sensuality and sharp , shrewd talent , cleverness with an occasional touch of genius ( which , however , does not know `` how to attack the problem of suffering '' ) ; the miraculous way in which music , revelation and death are associated in a single instant - all this seems a triumph of art , a rather desperate art , in itself ; beyond itself , also , it evokes numerous and distant resonances from the entire body of Mann 's work . (Marvin Schiller, "The Sheep's in the Meadow,"...)But when I saw that it was already ten past seven , I began to wonder if something had gone_wrong . |
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