Sentences with phrase «epic failure of»

This is where your errors in reasoning eventually lead you to your epic failure of logic.

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It's hard to forget the epic failure of a launch that was No Man's Sky back in 2016.

PS4 is going to fail hard and after the epic failure of the Vita, the end of $ 0NY.

Then there was the epic failure of the Dreamcast that he was involved in.

The epic failure of the webOS on the TouchPad, as well as the other devices from HP like the smartphone Pre3 and Veer, is yet fresh in everyone's mind.

All of HP's efforts with the WebOS platform bombed, which include the epic failure of the TouchPad device.

(John Hinderaker) In the aftermath of the epic failure of law enforcement at Stoneman Douglas High School, a number of companies adopted preening, anti-gun stances.

Director Adam McKay's witty look at the fraudulent and epic failure of the housing market perfectly captures Author Michael Lewis» gripping best seller.

There are many different ways to measure the epic failure of New York State's government.

«This was, among other things, an epic failure of communication,» said Huntington Town Councilman Mark Cuthbertson.

People keep salivating over a front four of LMAO, but we could only accommodate them all if we switch back to the epic failure of 4 -2-3-1.

Not exact matches

When the social scientist and derivatives trader sat down at the same table at a friend's wedding in 2011, they got to talking about their shared interest in «epic failures,» like the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the Fukushima nuclear disaster and Hurricane Sandy.

A stream of small mishaps — or systematic failures — will cause more damage than a single epic failure.

Since launching last fall, Healthcare.gov has been an epic failure in terms of its ability to simply work.

And he says that the hedge fund industry's bets on the ever - embattled Valeant Pharmaceuticals was a mistake of epic proportions, rivaling the losses from Enron and other spectacular failures.

This week's policy and communication failures of ECB President Mario Draghi border on epic.

- What if we came together as epic failures and sought not successful models or how - do's but instead celebrated faithfulness in ministry because of the reality of Jesus?

Which is why J.R. organized the Epic Fail Pastors Conference and why he authored one of the most important books I've read this summer, Fail: Finding Hope and Grace in the Midst of Ministry Failure.

Epic failures, both of you

The final clue in this epic journey is the word Tolkien invented to describe what he saw as a good quality in a fairy - story — and that word was eucatastrophe, this being the notion that there is a «sudden joyous «turn»» in the story, where everything is going well, «giving a fleeting glimpse of Joy», whilst not denying the «existence of dyscatastrophe — of sorrow and failure».

I've discussed making family favorites vs. pushing the envelope before (Brownie Points or Epic Failure; No Bake Chocolate Mousse), and the inherent risk of fFailure; No Bake Chocolate Mousse), and the inherent risk of failurefailure.

I was so intimidated to try baking bread — I've only had epic failures in the past (the unfortunate brioche incident of 2007), and wanted so badly to experience the scent of warm baking bread in my own home.

My first attempt was a failure of epic proportions.

The European Formula 3 driver and member of McLaren's young driver programme got the chance to trial a load of epic classic cars in the game, as well as the team's engine failure - prone MCL32.

There is no doubt in my mind that the most disastrous decision we made during the past calendar year, up to and including the most eventful January transfer window in recent memory, was not the Sanchez debacle that saw him off to Old Trafford, which will forever be considered a failure of epic proportions, or the selling off of Ox to Liverpool following a thrashing less than a fortnight earlier, or even the triangular clusterf * ck that saw Giroud head to our crosstown rivals in the 11th hour, but the re-upping of our manager after another tumultuous and cringe - worthy campaign both on and off the pitch.

Arsenal are the only club I can think of that constantly reward epic failure!

That was a failure of epic proportions as it was completely unnecessary — just a few mil would have bought some CB cover and he had the money.

You could put the blame on Bobby Cox, for his failure to pull Charlie Leibrandt in Game 6 of the 1991 World Series, before Leibrandt gave up that epic home run to Kirby Puckett; or you could put it on Lonnie Smith, who screeched to a halt on the base paths when second baseman Chuck Knoblauch pantomimed a throw to second even though the ball was already in the outfield.

So Chelsea have not been having the greatest of times recently and they are trying to avoid losing the straight Premier League games after having gone down against Bournemouth and Watford, both in epic failures.

Twelve years of hurt and with the likes of Liverpool, Manchester United and maybe even Manchester City seemingly out of the reckoning this season, another failure to win it would be a bitter blow for the Gunners (although if they do win it we'll probably observe an epic reaction on Twitter).

It's no longer news that the Euro 2016 was an epic tale of anguish, failure and disappointment for the big names in Europe as an obscure team, which found it difficult acing their games both at the group stages and the knockout phase came out of obscurity against all prevailing odds to lift the most prestigious trophy in all of Europe to the amazement of all eyes.

I have to say that most of the time I feel like I am the poster mom for «Epic Mom Failure,» but your insight has made me feel better.

This failure of epic proportions is matched only by that other firm government commitment (downgraded by Theresa May on Monday to a mere «comment»): to reduce net migration to the tens of thousands — «no ifs, no buts».

Yesterday's result was the predictable outcome of an epic failure on the part of the BBC to root out corruption at FIFA.

Oh my that's a failure of epic proportions.

I would greatly appreciate some urgently needed help from Republican Committee Chairperson, Phil Ragusa, City Councilman Dan Halloran and anyone else who can offer reliable help, in lieu of the epic failure, apathy, arrogance and cowardice that have been solidly present throughout my debacle with Eric Ulrich and Michael Miller (and State Senator Joseph Addabbo, Jr., and his predecessor, Serfin Maltese).

NYC's hospital network has missed a series of crucial deadlines in its rollout of a $ 763 million electronic medical records system called Epic, according to a blog that detailed the failures last week.

That's worth reflecting on for a moment — even after such an epic level of economic failure, the Tories were still more trusted on the economy.

David Cameron and the Tories are taking the NHS backwards and this announcement is a major admission of failure and a U-turn of fairly epic proportions.

Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin, a Republican from Rensellear County who is a frequent critic of Cuomo, called the Start Up job creation numbers «pathetic», and the entire program an «epic failure».

In 2012 fictional Earths met their ends by a creative variety of means: not only by impact, but by infection, epic power failure, and more.

CATASTROPHIC meltdowns of reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant had less to do with the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan on 11 March last year, and more to do with the plant owners» and government's failure to anticipate and prepare for emergencies on such an epic scale.

The failure of New Orleans's flood protection system was epic.

And it is an epic failure on the part of Stone.

Yet vestiges of that childhood vocation linger on in my lifelong fascination with autopsies, particularly postmortems involving epic film failures.

I just hope that the failure of this and the recent Noah at the box office doesn't mean the temporary end of biblical epics in Hollywood.

According to the three historians on the DVD's excellent commentary track, the film did enjoy strong box office returns and was anything but a creative failure, but Castile is symbolic of the epic productions studios couldn't indulge in as often, until TV forced a return to bug budget epics during the fifties, in the form of pseudo-moral Biblical sagas in CinemaScope and stereophonic sound.

This sequence, a visual quote of David Lean's epic Lawrence of Arabia, is the eerie opening to Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, the ambitious failure directed by the science - fiction franchise's star, William Shatner.

Although we now know that it went on to be a massive box office hit and took home a sack of Oscars, the release of Gladiator, which was their most expensive film to date, represented the unimaginable: a $ 103 - million attempt to resurrect the long - dead ancient Roman epic, a once steadfast Hollywood genre that has been defunct since the mid-1960s when big hits like Ben - Hur (1959) and Spartacus (1960) were eventually overshadowed by colossal financial failures like Cleopatra (1963)(not to mention 1980's notorious big - budget hard - core epic Caligula).