One morning we will look to the east and wait, but the sun will fail to appear.
The sun rose higher in the sky, but still failed to blot out the light of the star.
The hours of daylight had grown shorter and shorter until one day the sun simply failed to appear.
At length there came a day when the sun failed even to brush the horizon at its lowest point.
Now, as often happens in these regions, should the sun fail to burst through the clouds, no shadow.
The sun already fails to give its warmth adequately and we will be more comfortable indoors.
The sun struggled to push its pale yellow light through a corona of white mist and failed.
It was as if the sun, having come up on time since the dawn of eyes to watch for it, failed to show.
How could it, if the sun of righteousness, even, had failed for the time?
In the new Soviet journalism, it seems, the sun often fails to shine.