1. My efforts ended in total failure.

2. 11 The advertising campaign was a total failure.

3. I respect your commitment in the face of total failure.

4. He was at first a total failure as a public speaker.

5. Come on, the project was not a total failure—Chin up!

6. This is an absolute necessity and to work in defiance of it means total failure.

7. 27 A small indulgence is viewed as a total failure, and uncontrolled rebound eating follows.

8. Still, the rise in Bartering is not emblematic of a total failure of the capitalistic marketplace, according to Frederick Wherry, an economic sociologist at …