The Dogs: Not Exactly Night - Episode XVII
failure that the aristocratic line that brought him here through the centuries was about to extinguish itself - buried in the same mountains from whence it arose.
Red, White, and Blue Chapter 5
He really hadn't ever been in charge of other people's safety before, and the abject failure of his first time was proving to be a traumatic experience.
The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
Four hours later, a pile of discarded bags from the burritos they'd had delivered spoke to an abject failure to get through much of anything at all.
The Lord's Domain
"_really, if not for your abject failure to save your team, you would sound like an **actual** hero. i have made my decision now.
Shifter, Chapter 2: Caure
I'd only had one child, one who could not produce more, and in a society where women need to have as many children as they can just so that we can survive, it felt like the most abject failure of all.
Le Pussycat of the Sky
abject failure. the only constant in his life, it seems. maybe it's time to face the music: his idea of coming to america and filming an ambitious new aeroplane movie is - quite literally - never going to get off the ground.
The legend of a warrior; Chapter 98 - Only a Monster can slay a Monster
But it was also possible that his attempt would result in abject failure. worse than that, he might end up creating nothing but a puppet, a corpse given incomplete, "artificial" life.