76 examples of fiascos in sentences

It is rather a fiasco, isn't it?"

"Mr. Fox, after the fiasco I have made of this affair, it costs me something to go into petty details which must suggest my former failures and may not strike you with the force they did me.

An absurd thing, altogether, that fiasco of Jane Merrick's.

After the Mormon fiasco and the evaporation of the Fieldingites, another denomination took it.

I am not going to risk a repetition of last night's fiasco.

" "And we haven't any reason to suppose that Carfax is, either, after his fiasco in trying to expose my Box of Mystery trick.

When one of these fiascos occurs the cause can many times be referred to the fact that the student did not have enough facts at his command.

The attack had ended more or less in fiasco, and as a trial of strength upon either side it was negligible.

Yet, in the bottom of my heart, I knew that magazine would be a grim fiasco; I knew it would not be worth reading; I knew, even if it were, that nobody would read it; and I kept wondering, how I should be able, upon my compact income of twelve pounds per annum, payable monthly, to meet my share in the expense.

Then he realised that the theatre was intensely quiet, and that he would have to explain that the last item of his programme was even more of a fiasco than the rest.

I even wrote to the engineer Pasetti (who since the fiasco of 'Un Giorno di Regno' had shown no signs of life) to beg him to obtain from Merelli the cancelling of my contract.

But it is tragic enough that he should have been compelled to write a comic opera under the anguish that he felt at the loss of his two children and his wife, and that his reward should have been even then a dismal fiasco.

They were doing their utmost to ascertain his needs; they were trying him with slices of bread, a fiasco of chianti, words of intense admiration, flowers.

" Grandmamma laughed; she was pleased, I could see, that the evening had gone off without a fiasco!

He had come over for a breath of gayer air, he told me, after the Coronation fiasco.

Raymond Moley (A); 31May67; R411238. Rehearsal for a fiasco.

Fiasco in Ethiopia.

Fiasco in Ethiopia: the story of a so-called war by a reporter on the ground.

Raymond Moley (A); 31May67; R411238. Rehearsal for a fiasco.

The Nazi fiasco in Latin America.

CHAPTER VII BACK TO SRINAGAR Easter Day, April 23.We left the Erin district early in the morning following the bara singh fiasco, and punted and poled up the river to join the Smithsons in a last attack upon the duck.

He served again in the Braddock march, and in that fiasco, Washington wrote, "Captain Peyroney and all his officers down to a corporal, was killed.

I have read in some of the biographies of me that have been published from time to time, that I was chagrined at Coghlan's fiasco because it brought my success as Portia so soon to an end.

In the words of Governor Gipps, this "silly and unauthorized act was a paper pellet fired off" at the hero of an even more pretentious fiasco.

Although the hero is a weakling, the subject a fiasco, the end a premature death and a personal disillusionment, yet, in spite of this theme, which might have been chosen for its depressing qualities, the unconquerable pæan of the praise of things, the ungovernable gaiety of the poet's song swells so high that at the end it seems to drown all the weak voices of the characters in one crashing chorus of great things and great men.

76 examples of  fiascos  in sentences