Meaning of god that failed | Babel Free

Definitions

A notable let-down or flop; a concept, product, or person that has failed to live up to very high expectations.

figuratively, idiomatic

Examples

“And it is just because [Sartre’s] early post-war influence was so great, and his intellectual magnetism so hypnotic, that today he has left such disarray among intellectuals throughout France. God has failed him; but he, too, is a god that failed. Today his public utterances still make headlines, but his real leadership has passed.”

“Only the ones who stay away can come to terms with [Bob] Dylan’s new irrelevance. He never pretended to have any answers and, now that he seems to have no questions either, he may finally have made it into the ranks of the gods that failed.”

“Still, reflexive anthropologists are right: the idea of a neatly tied-up ethnographic package, of a realist ethnography that was temporal, functionalist, and unmindful of inequality and power—that was certainly a god that failed.”

“At its best, the space colonization vision was sophisticated daydreaming, not a future that a large number of Americans wanted to make happen. The vision had its shot and never caught on, despite appearing in the pages of a highly reputable magazine and gaining the attention of political decision makers. [See title]”

“Get real about English football. It is a god that failed. Stop worshipping it. It is the reflection of the unbalanced, short-termist hedonism of the financial boom era.”

“For most Assam locals, tea eventually became the god that failed.”

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