How To Use Foible In A Sentence
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In other words, forgiveness is for real sin, not for foibles, mistakes, excusable blunders, and things we can't help.
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Throughout the work, he debunks theories and rituals, and pokes sly fun at other writers and the foibles of his own characters.
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I also do my best to apply this to the faults and foibles of others.
Times, Sunday Times
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Time and again, Ike put up with the foibles, discourtesies, and downright arrogance of his official subor dinate, while at the same time insisting that his major decisions be carried out.
General Ike
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Britons have been swapping bets on royal foibles for decades - many gambled on the name Diana would choose for her eldest son - but recent years have seen an expansion in the scope of the bets offered by mainstream bookmakers.
The Seattle Times
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Shrugging off foibles — like subpar corn that led them to seek an organic grain from the Finger Lakes — they are content to gain their expertise as they go.
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A minister would come under intense pressure as a result of personal or financial foibles, or just sheer incompetence.
Times, Sunday Times
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Studying biology may yet lead to greater tolerance for the vast repertory of human sexual foibles, preferences, and predilections.
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Do you think they just have a screenwriting computer programme that builds in all these character flaws and foibles?
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Today they recognize that human foibles, biases and our hunter - gatherer origins can often be critical factors.
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When we admit that about ourselves, we're better able to understand the foibles of others.
Christianity Today
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It's the foibles and frailties of the characters we love the most.
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Royal patronage in China certainly had an aesthetic edge, so essential to the nourishment of art, even if generated by peculiar foibles.
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His masterpiece is Rossetti and his Circle, published in 1922, which wickedly and wittily anatomizes the foibles of the Pre-Raphaelites.
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It was in vain to argue the tyranny of some husbands, when he could turn upon us the follies of some wives; and that wives and daughters were never more faulty, more undomestic, than at present; and when we were before a judge, who, though he could not be absolutely unpolite, would not flatter us, nor spare our foibles.
Sir Charles Grandison
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Character faults and foibles surface slowly and are dealt with compassionately.
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The principle of defence, being the opposition of forte to foible, is still applicable today.
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They enjoy the same capacity for greatness and they suffer the same faults and foibles.
Times, Sunday Times
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I've enjoyed sharing the little foibles of the boat with them.
Times, Sunday Times
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Years back, when we first had Nicole, Julia would come home with hilarious accounts of the foibles of her VC partners.
PREY
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The reasonably widespread if often vague notion that super-close reading results in undecidability rather than organic unity; the not uncommon, if typically undisciplined assertion that texts predict and choreograph the foibles of their interpreters — these tics of contemporary professional critical writing bear the faint but unmistakable trace of de Man's signature.
Introduction
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Mr. Feldman acknowledges these differences — starting with his title drawn from a Frankfurter law clerk 's characterization of the Supreme Court as "nine scorpions in a bottle" — but tries to celebrate all four "great justices" equally, as if their negative estimations of each other were mere personal foibles.
The New Dealers
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Was she so completely smitten by the side-splitting antics of the fast-rising TV stars Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Eric Stonestreet that she overlooked the foibles of the irrepressibly zany Herman Cain?
Dear Barbara, Your A-List Needs Work
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They start out tough-minded, funny and unflinching in the excavation of their characters' fears and foibles.
Suburban Tensions In a Gauzy Glow
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We were not allowed to read of the Queen Mother's foibles, of course, perhaps because she achieved fame not through talent but via marriage and matriarchy.
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Just another screwy episode in a tournament filled with foibles.
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You'll laugh at Beethoven's foibles and you'll find it hard to suppress a tear as his friends do all they can to shield him from the world he was ill-equipped to be part of.
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His features were smoothly regular and extraordinarily placid, as if he surveyed the world from a lofty perch, far removed from any of its foibles and cares.
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They have foibles and desires and worries and dislikes.
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He is certainly an avuncular figure, more paternal than patriarchal, yet even his faults and foibles are masculine in character.
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Aren't there equally useful things to do with one's life than attack the foibles and weaknesses of the individual?
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In many countries, the frank assessments of their weaknesses and foibles will be seen as tantamount to espionage.
Times, Sunday Times
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Instead of stepping out of the spotlight, she offers herself up for intensive scrutiny, delving into her own foibles and failures with astonishing candour.
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Sometimes funny, sometimes poignant, this title reaches into the heart where light shines on the everyday foibles of living.
MMD Newswire: Press Release News Wire
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She camped it up about her "marvy-poo" beads and dress, and I sat transfixed, destined to join legions who enjoy following the foibles of the well-to-do.
Michael Henry Adams: Book Review: Admiring Rich Peoples Houses?
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This technique begins at the instant when the foible of the adversary's blade is against the forte of your blade.
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She was so very clear-eyed about the foibles of her peers and wrote about them in delightfully wry ways.
MIND MELD: Books That Hold Special Places in Our Hearts and On Our Shelves
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They show their foibles and failings, their gifts and talents in a way that's entirely theirs.
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The Australians were sort of, well they were self-deprecating and they sort of realized their own foibles and that sort of kind of blunted some criticism by being that way.
CNN Transcript Feb 10, 2002
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He should know them inside out by now; their foibles, their likes and dislikes and their insecurities.
Times, Sunday Times
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As Niebuhr observed, we "need a sense of modesty about the virtue, wisdom and power available to us" and "a sense of contrition about the common human frailties and foibles which lie at the foundation of both the enemy's demonry and our vanities.
Eliot Spitzer: The Need for Both Passion and Humility in Politics
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That means also that the world round them has again returned to the Greek conviction, that all nature, especially human nature, is not entirely melodious nor luminous; but a barred and broken thing: that saints have their foibles, sinners their forces; that the most luminous virtue is often only a flash, and the blackest-looking fault is sometimes only a stain: and, without confusing in the least black with white, they can forgive, or even take delight in things that are like the [Greek: nebris], dappled.
Lectures on Art Delivered before the University of Oxford in Hilary term, 1870
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In this Bohemian hothouse, our quirks and foibles flourished unchecked.
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This is part of his charm; the mixture of solid history and acute bitchery have proved an attractive combination to millions - by picking up the foibles of the famous, he makes them more human.
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And she amuses us with the foibles of human characters we too can recognize as belonging to the world around us.
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I noted in the Edmunds report that my wife's car had experienced many of the same foibles as their long-term tester, including sagging kick panels, several NVH sins and interior panel gaps that were as uneven as rural highway pavement.
Sam Barer's Four Wheel Drift
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They like people and are interested in their foibles, whims and capricious nature.
Times, Sunday Times
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This public justice consists of ridicule for human foibles and indignation for human vices.
The Times Literary Supplement
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For all his foibles, we need his steel spine and singularity of purpose.
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If readers can overlook Kung's personal foibles, the memoirs tell an absorbing story, most especially when the author himself is not the focus.
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Oddly enough, another word containing the same diphthong is my very favorite: "foible".
Cygnoir.net
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The film is likewise unsympathetic to their foibles.
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I do not know any man whose future character could so well be prophesied from the past as GS. whatever virtues, whatever abilities he possessed, would dilate & his foibles which instead of darkening the brighter parts of the picture served only to make the pleasant xxxx them more visible by a little shade. a thousand little incidents were recalled to remembrance by his name, & if at first melancholy — as reminding me of many friends now scattered wide “By many fates” [3] — I delighted in the thought that the best part of the flock will soon be gathered together again.
Letter 162
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He gave the impression of being perpetually amused by, and yet far above, the foibles of fellow human beings.
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But moaning about men doesn't make you a feminist – it just makes you a moaner who can't get along with men for reasons that are probably at least as much to do with your failings, flaws and foibles as they are with some imagined horridness on the part of men.
Spare me from the whining women who are giving feminism a bad name | Julie Burchill
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Though he does not succeed in the delineation of the great and grand passions of our nature, he is very successful in the sphere of its humane and tender sentiments; and though open to criticism for the jaunty audacity with which he coins dainty sweetnesses of expression rejected by all dictionaries, and for an occasional pertness in asserting opinions of doubtful truth, he is so lovable a creature that we pardon his literary foibles as we would pardon the personal foibles of a charming companion and friend.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
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But I think my only foible is really spending so long in this other world.
An interview with Michael Robotham
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A description of that admirable structure, the cathedral church of Salisbury. : With the chapels, monuments, grave-stones, and their inscriptions. To which is prefixed an account of Old Sarum.
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Again footwork is often required to create the correct distance to allow you to parry the foible of the attacking blade.
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Our other great foible was hunting down British metalware imported into Morocco at the turn of the century.
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With all his foibles and weaknefleSji he might have become a very good fubje£t, and a lifeful member to fociety, particularly t0 Ireland, his native country, when he ha4 fecn his errors; for to do the Iriih juftice, with whom the writer is well ac - quainted, ingratitude doth not feem to be among their national vices.
Thoughts, Essays, and Maxims, Chiefly Religious and Political
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Is it that people are too much alike and only have so many tricks and foibles?
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Even the Chancellor is now pinning the blame for Britain's stop-go macroeconomic problems of the past on the foibles of Britain's property market.
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He also succeeds in bringing to life the American founders not as gods, but as people with human foibles and frailties.
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As humans, we have numerous foibles and/or weaknesses.
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commonsense scholarship on the foibles of a genius
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The cringe is a successful technique for deflecting aggression … Just as we are genetically programmed to seek signs of love and loyalty, dogs are genetically programmed to exploit this foible of ours.
The Animal Kingdom
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Surely a benign and forgiving God will allow me this foible, this eccentricity.
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Her dignity became a stilted manner, her social supremacy led her into affectation and sentimental over-refinements; she queened it with her foibles, after the usual fashion of those who allow their courtiers to adore them.
Two Poets
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News editors, TV executives, and publishers insist that the alleged foibles and peccadilloes of celebrities, even those that wear the mantle of the presidency, and now in the case of Michelle, their wives, are fair game for exposure.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Dumping on The Obamas
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Dealing with conflicting interests makes it into a mass of nervous ticks, quirks and foibles, lurching haplessly hither and yon in an anxious sweat, shouting ‘Like me!’
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We take the mickey out of human foibles and how people react to things.
The Sun
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Insofar as this is a human foible, a mere unsightly blemish on the doctrine of RC, I give it a lot of slack.
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Isherwood's bright-eyed alertness, his lack of malice, his genial delight in the foibles of others all make him lovable.
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They think that they finally have men nailed: that, after 50,000 years, the superior female mind has winkled out every foible and fantasy lurking in the murky recesses of what passes for the male brain.
May 2007
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This public justice consists of ridicule for human foibles and indignation for human vices.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Where they part company is in their treatment of human foibles.
Times, Sunday Times
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But such foibles are useful only if they are exploited.
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At this distance—not just from France but from the France of the '60s—the film's social criticism seems quaint: Jean-Louis, his wife Suzanne Sandrine Kiberlain and their rigid friends and associates could be fugitives from a Jacques Tati sendup of bourgeois foibles.
Beware 'Ides of March'; Viva Maids of 'Women'
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It is three pages long and goes into quite a lot of detail covering all of James' little eccentricities and foibles.
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Their bedroom doors closed, and suddenly our foibles became the topic of dinner conversation.
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Upon these considerations, he met with a most engaging reception from the entertainer, who was a well-bred man, of some learning, generosity, and taste; but his foible was the desire of being thought the inimitable pattern of all three.
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
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His foible was his admiration for the poets, and his belief that he could write poetry and was a first-rate critic.
The Pirate of the Mediterranean A Tale of the Sea
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The parties will not be sharing the personal foibles or shortcomings of their members.
Times, Sunday Times
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To read him, one feels, is to know him, foibles and all.
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The Inspectors all know each other extremely well and sometimes have to tolerate each other's little foibles, too.
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Add the complexities and foibles that come between ambition and despair and stir into the apprehended but uncomprehended All Thing known as god (or the gods) and untangling what is from what seems to be had to wait until someone came along crazy or brave enough to say "You know, this looks suspiciously like a made up explanation based on our own Self.
A Dark And Hidden God
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With his sharp eye for human traits and foibles, his comments about people were delightfully piquant.
Times, Sunday Times
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Do you think they just have a screenwriting computer programme that builds in all these character flaws and foibles?
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But we owe so much to him that we can forgive his human foibles.
Times, Sunday Times
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The promising premise soon falters, with the striking central character's foibles never really fully realized or explained.
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I act as a buffer between him and the rest of the world when he needs it, and in return I get somebody who's a tremendous amount of fun when he feels good, and who is very good at understanding my own emotional foibles.
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That said, I think there is a genuine warmth and gracious embrace of humanity - with all its flaws and foibles - among most Mexicans that seems to be lacking, or layered in cynicism, among people from the U.S. or people from most western European countries (with which I am most familiar).
Dialect and Language discussion - pulled from another thread . . .
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Men of large vision often display outsized foibles as well.
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So, how to live with the lovable quirks and foibles that so quickly will become the grit in the Vaseline of your relationship?
Times, Sunday Times
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For a farce to be effective, it has to caricature some known human foibles.
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Let even Clarendel have a care of himself! or, when least he suspects any danger, some fair dairymaid will praise his horsemanship, or take a fancy to his favourite spaniel, or any other favourite that happens to be the foible of the day, and his invulnerability will be at her feet, and Lady Clarendel be brought forward in a fortnight. '
Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
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He who exposed the gallantries of a Lady of Quality, or the faults and foibles of a Patrician, was, forsooth, deemed to bear hostile purposes against the Commonwealth: for this is the construction of Treason by the Lawyers.
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There is more diversity in Europe and, with that, a greater tolerance for any little foibles and eccentricities that a player may have.
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My grandfather always carries his watch in his pocket; it's a foible of his.
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Ms. Wharton, one of America's great authors, captured old New York society foibles in prizewinning novels such as "The Age of Innocence.
Landmarks Haunted by Debt Consult the Spirit World for Help
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Eca de Queiros exposed the vices and foibles of the middle classes in Portugal and the Maias is a classic example of this.
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With his flair and instinct for comedy, he became famous in the ‘screwball comedy’ genre, which was all about the foibles and eccentricities of people.
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These foibles include our urge to chase the latest investment fad and doggedly hanging on to losers.
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For all his foibles, Russell was a superb wicketkeeper and a doughty batsman.
My glove affair with keepers of the lost stumpers' art
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Centre Court samples the understated foibles of the Henman character
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The CEOs of underperforming companies do tend to develop all kinds of foibles, tics, and unpleasant mannerisms.
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Her comments about his foibles were meant to prevent "deifying" her husband, she says: "He's a gifted man -- one of the most brilliant politicians you'll see in this lifetime -- but in the end, he's just a man.
Michelle Obama Solidifies
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With his sharp eye for human traits and foibles, his comments about people were delightfully piquant.
Times, Sunday Times
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I have said already that he had his weak points; but in speaking of these, I must not be understood as referring to his obstinacy: which was one of his strong points -- "assurement ce n 'etait pas sa foible.
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 3
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When I bring up the latest Palin foible, my GOP co-workers ask me if I am afraid of Palin.
Axelrod: I'm not thinking about Palin's next move
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I have very good friends who are tolerant of each other's foibles and quirks.
Times, Sunday Times
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Apparently his foible was a fondness for cats; one of them, a superb brindled Persian cat, is a great beauty, and seems a particular favourite.
The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford
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Dexter also addresses the rumors of his father's womanizing by saying, he was human with all the foibles and shortcomings of any mortal, yet he denies any real tomcatting around on his father's part.
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Yours, true to your blood (for you are _Scot Scotorum_), is the humorist's way: how many passengers you have warmed and tickled with your genial chaff, hiding constant kindness under a jocose word, perhaps teasing us Americans on our curious conduct of knives and forks, or (for a change) taking the cisatlantic side of the jape, esteeming no less highly a sound poke at British foibles.
Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned
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Character faults and foibles surface slowly and are dealt with compassionately.
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We all have our little foibles.
Times, Sunday Times
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If racism is far less prevalent in English stadia nowadays, it seems to have become open season on anything to do with opposing players, whether personal foible, physical appearance, family matters or off-field indiscretion.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
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He parries with his foible when a feint is close but his real defense is his feet.
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He is more interested in passing comment on the personal foibles and conduct of elite men.
The Times Literary Supplement
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No other titles weave their magic in quite the same way, and you almost suspect Call of Pripyat's foibles are an integral part of how that magic works.
Evil Avatar
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I have very good friends who are tolerant of each other's foibles and quirks.
Times, Sunday Times
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In many countries, the frank assessments of their weaknesses and foibles will be seen as tantamount to espionage.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is three pages long and goes into quite a lot of detail covering all of James' little eccentricities and foibles.
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Aristotle's idea that a tragic hero acts from a hamartia or mistake rather than evil intent was distorted into a theory of the so-called tragic flaw and was applied to describe foibles of Hamlet and Othello (jealousy).
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Let even Clarendel have a care of himself! or, when least he suspects any danger, some fair dairymaid will praise his horsemanship, or take a fancy to his favourite spaniel, or any other favourite that happens to be the foible of the day, and his invulnerability will be at her feet, and Lady Clarendel be brought forward in a fortnight. '
Camilla
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Sometimes human foibles are key in drug discovery.
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They like people and are interested in their foibles, whims and capricious nature.
Times, Sunday Times
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I'm certainly not immune to this kind of foible, and I think any reporter worth the skin he or she occupies would say the same.
Aspen Times - Top Stories
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Now I should point out that all three did have English as their second language and each with their own cultural quirks and foibles.
Times, Sunday Times
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Expressions basses, & fait ramper le fort avec le foible.
A Critical Essay on Characteristic-Writings From his translation of The Moral Characters of Theophrastus (1725)
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The Horizon was clearly intended to be a miscellany with a particular emphasis upon the foibles and strengths of the press.
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Her prose is sharply on-point when she trains her unforgiving eye on human foibles at large, skewering scholarly attempts to legitimize the series ( "You Hold Your Gun Like a Sissy Girl: Firearms and Anxious Masculinity in BtVs" was one memorable academic paper title); the unwritten rules of "netiquette"; and the persistent irritation of online "trolls.
Jennifer Ouellette: A Buffy Fan Gets a Life... Online
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They like people and are interested in their foibles, whims and capricious nature.
Times, Sunday Times
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We're unwilling to accept the foibles and flaws of others, and loath to admit our own.
Times, Sunday Times
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My grandfather always carries his watch in his pocket; it's a foible of his.
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We have to tolerate each other's little foibles.
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He can capture a physical moment in time; capture human foibles and frailties so that we can see our vulnerabilities and are able laugh at them.
Times, Sunday Times
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Both characters have their foibles and strengths; both have suffered greatly; both deserve the house and a second chance.