Meaning:
The phrase words fail me is an idiom that expresses shock, surprise or dismay, especially when one cannot find words to express ones thoughts and feelings about something one has just seen or heard about.
Examples:
- For once, words fail me.
- For once, words fail me, sir.
- The words fail me.
- She's... .. words fail me.
- My dear, words fail me.
- Oh, words fail me.
- Mr President, words fail me in the face of the tragedy that has befallen children and adults in Ossetia, but words must be found.
- Mr President, I must say that words fail me - and that is something that does not, I think, happen to me very often.
- Words fail me in condemning the onslaught on innocent civilians.
- Words fail me to explain the difficulty of life in Gaza.