She presents the model of a sublime pativratha, a woman who is completely devoted to her husband, and is especially venerated because the object of her wifely veneration was Ravana, a man with many unfortunate faults and evil tendencies, someone widely regarded as a demon.
Paterno wasn't King Arthur, but a man with a seismic fault and too much power, which as Thomas Boswell of The Washington Post writes, was destined to become his downfall.
Previous biographical accounts of Erasmus Darwin's life have indicated that he was a complex man with many faults along with his virtues, but the author suggests that he was some sort of monster.
To choose as narrator an austere and alienated intellectual, a man who find fault with Einstein's prose, repudiates love as a matter of dopamine and neurotransmitters and calls solitude not second nature but "first nature … no more than an enactment of being human" is a risky strategy; Hendricks is not easily lovable, in particular when dealing with women.
It's unlikely a man would fault you for being savvy and safe.
"I want to say, 'Stop.' He was a man like any other, with good qualities, faults, weaknesses.
There's nothing more attractive than confidence, and his openness in discussing sex and drug addiction not only suggests a man at one with himself but through his willingness to acknowledge his faults, a sense of humility.
Gates, a Republican, writes about Obama with an ambivalence that he does not resolve, praising him as "a man of personal integrity" even as he faults his leadership.
Trumbo was an incredibly complicated man, with a wide range of both virtues and faults.
An aging comrade, Michele was a good man, despite his faults: not very courageous, not entirely in line with the Party.
Like many other devotees, Ms. Bridges had a difficult time finding fault with a man she regarded as a virtual god beyond law and morality.
