Sentences with phrase «dismal failure in his life»

(On a more positive note to end, I just heard Peter Scazzero say today that Moses was «an eighty year old man with a stick» - and a dismal failure in his life, when God met him and called him into service — a ministry that would change everything.

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The other possibility, the evocation of the transcendent good — grace, beauty, God — through the hard temporal realities of individuals in action is much harder to carry off, as evidenced in Greene's The Power and the Glory, Charles Williams» Descent into Hell, C. S. Lewis» Out of the Silent Planet, Tolstoy's Resurrection, and perhaps most poignantly in the dismal failure of most literary attempts to portray the central mystery, the life of Jesus — Kazantzakis» The Greek Passion, Faulkner's A Fable, or — most dismal of all, historical novels about Jesus (what could be less hidden?)

They say that low - fat weight - loss diets have proved in clinical trials and real life to be dismal failures, and that on top of it all, the percentage of fat in the American diet has been decreasing for two decades.

CC's singing career fluctuates from dismal failures to famed successes while Hillary lives in her shadow, a source of strength and support.