failingly

Desperately, failingly, he ran towards the sun.

He turned towards Harris, who had failingly tried to keep from sympathising with the ex-Under-Secretary.

Stavros, Vasilis' brother tries failingly to feed the dreaming mind of his wife, Angela.

Edgler Vess was un- failingly thorough.

Now it was living and breathing and doing the impossible: It was moving the equivalent mass of two hundred light years of stars, however failingly, out of harm's way.

The last Victorid bishop was Victor III (died c. 836), who fought against the secular forces seeking to take back power and property from the diocese, but ultimately failingly.