One commentator described his ministerial career as "spectacularly unsuccessful".

"We've been spectacularly unsuccessful at getting money," Mr. Papa said.

Sadr and his fellow putschists have been spectacularly unsuccessful in winning popular support.

Another idea for a spectacularly unsuccessful and unprofitable British film:

The majority of counter-insurgency efforts by major powers in the last century have been spectacularly unsuccessful.

It was chosen for him after a youthful and spectacularly unsuccessful life of crime that landed him behind bars in 1974 at age 25.

After that he had led two spectacularly unsuccessful attacks on their fort.

A spectacularly unsuccessful beginning was the 1968 formation and subsequent bankruptcy of the Penn Central, barely two years later.

They had been spectacularly unsuccessful, of course.

I have spent the best part of my life trying to put these thoughts into the stream that makes decisions, and I've been spectacularly unsuccessful.