It is possible to achieve the "failure to" effect without resorting to "failure to language." From Bill Kristol's Op-Ed in today's NYT:
Perhaps the most revealing moment was the two candidates’ response to a question about evil. Yes, evil — that negation of the good that, Friedrich Nietzsche to the contrary notwithstanding, we seem not to have moved beyond.
Um . . . what? "to-the-contrary-notwithstanding" ? have we "failed to" move beyond evil? Geez. Worst sentence ever. Or at least today.
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