Wrong fails because it is wrong. The wrongs, the untruths, are inconsistent with each other. They clash against each other and confute each other. They neutralize each other and are lost.
When a country wants television more than they want clean water, they've lost their grip.
When the Cleveland Cavaliers lost the 2015 NBA Finals to Golden State, LeBron James sat motionless in the locker room, staring straight ahead, still wearing his game jersey, for 45 minutes after the final buzzer. Here was a guy immensely wealthy, widely admired, at the peak of his powers - yet stricken, inconsolable.
I could barely function as an adult; I slept through alarm clocks and lost train tickets mid-journey.
My favorite was 'The Lost Boys.' Corey Haim wore this trench coat, and I made my mum buy me a trench coat. I wore it to school, to primary school.
At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
The increasing segregation we have in our country geographically and culturally has led to these pretty monolithic views of different classes of people, and because of that, we've lost a certain amount of cultural cohesion.
The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the 'New York Times' or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C.
We don't know what proportion of public funds is regularly lost to collusion and corruption. Is it 25 per cent? 30 per cent? We do know that a portion of these public funds are feeding organized crime.
We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.
The Columbia is lost, but the dreams that inspired its crew remain with us.
While editors and newspaper owners currently fret over shrinking readership and lost profits, they do the one thing that insures cutting their own throats; they keep reducing space for the one feature that attracts new young readers in the first place; the comic strips.
In common with many who have a brain injury, I initially lost my confidence and felt very vulnerable, as if a protective layer of skin had been stripped away.
On the face of it, China has won the Olympics. But it is not China that has won, but the Communist party. The Chinese people have lost.
In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia.
There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
I'm very disappointed in my country right now, because I think we've kind of lost our moral compass.
This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.
Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it.
