fall short

Shall God's fiction, which is man's reality, fall short of man's fiction?

My words do not carry its august sense; they fall short and cold.

When we grow truthful, it may be forgiven us if we fall short of wit.

And was she, Anastasia, to fall short in such a simple craft?

So long as we fall short of the state of unity we are in the stage of immaturity.

To fall short of this, is to fall short of what it means to be a man.

These doctrines are thus found to fall short of the Kantian criticism.

The difficulty is, of course, not to undershoot, to fall short.

Is it not enough that I should fall short of you in actual fighting?

But the distance is doubtful, and the shots might fall short.