Sentence examples for a confession of weakness from inspiring English sources

The nomination has been hailed as a masterstroke, but it is also a confession of weakness.

"It is almost a confession of weakness to go into the media business.

Indiana Democrats objected that the proclamation was "a confession of weakness — an acknowledgement that twenty millions of white people … can not conquer six millions of whites" without black help.

Jane wanted love, sexual and every kind; she said so all her life, and she was bold in saying so, because it is always taken as a confession of weakness.

For many seeking help is still tantamount to a confession of "weakness" that feels inappropriate to military men and women.

Would it not be a confession of weakness to demand a favorable regime while, at the same time, calling for equality?

The book includes a number of frank disclosures, including a confession of his weakness for alcohol.

The Hollywood mogul makes a rare confession of weakness: his greatest mistake, he said, was to have sold the company to the Japanese in 1990 a decision that ushered in a time of instability for Universal which continues to this day.

Ernst's painting, too, is a confession of frailty, of the weakness of reason and selfhood in a mind that is only part conscious, part knowable.

Digging into Randy Newman's abject ballad, "Guilty," a substance abuser's groveling confession of weakness and failure, Ms. Dexter brings out its lurking subtext.

A girlfriend once interrupted my confession of weakness with "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me" (Philippians 4 13).