Throughout the novel, the narrator is haunted by the tragic example of Kafka, whose artistic integrity and transcendent vision did not save him from a fatal failure to achieve a human connection.

Active in retirement, he suffered a fatal cardiac failure as he prepared to go hear confessions at the Shrine of San Cayetano.

First, never feed grapes (or raisins), which have been associated with sporadic instances of fatal renal failure.

A hassle yes, but not a fatal failure usually.

The attackers were momentarily shocked into stillness - a fatal failure of nerve, as it turned out.

Perhaps the most worrisome side effects are a lowering of thyroid activity and, in fewer than 1 percent of patients, kidney impairment that can lead to fatal renal failure.

B-52C 53-0406, which crashed on Elephant Mountain, was the second high tailed B-52 to suffer such a fatal structural failure.

They include spina bifida, an often crippling failure of the spine and back bones to close fully, and anencephaly, a fatal failure of the brain and skull to form properly.

He said NASA engineers were constructing a "fault tree" with every conceivable reason for the massive and fatal failure.

This causes a fatal mechanical failure in the detonator and proximity fuse-fatal to the mechanism, not to me.