Or is it a simple failure of imagination?

Defeat meant more than simple failure; it meant death.

Or was her lack of success possibly a simple failure of imagination?

In 1910, he was dismissed for simple scholastic failure.

More to the point, they are worse off for reasons that have nothing to do with either accident or simple black failure.

It was nothing familiar, no simple failure of the ship's ventilation as had sometimes occurred over the years.

What we have here, I suspect, is a simple failure to communicate.

Or what if I choose a different experiment, one that causes even more embarrassment than simple failure?

Officials said the cause was a simple failure to find enough students to cover operating costs, though many blame mismanagement and weak marketing.

Whether through laziness or simple failure to understand the importance of what was going on, he missed the Mauerfall too.