Sentence examples for besetting problem from inspiring English sources

The strongest dancing comes from Ashley Bouder (in apricot), despite her besetting problem of unspontaneous facial expressions.

Meanwhile, here in the U.S., were nothing more to come of Occupy Wall Street, the protesters deserve our gratitude for disrupting the increasingly brittle political conversation and forcing onto the table -- finally! -- the core cultural question: our besetting problem, what major American novelist Edith Wharton called "the custom of the country" -- money and greed.

Koch did little to address the city's besetting problems, including crime and welfare.

To such critics, Reliance represents one of India's besetting problems: a huge concentration of wealth and power in the hands of dynasties that determine the country's fate.A conglomerate spanning energy, chemicals, retail, telecoms and media (see chart 1), Reliance accounts for 15% of India's exports, 4% of its stockmarket's value and 3% of its tax revenues.

The invasion of Iraq drew attention to the malignant realities of archaeological looting and to the besetting question of who really owns what.

Rodney Waller, a senior vice president at the oil and gas company Range Resources, called the expected surge in liquefied natural gas imports part of a "pile on" of problems including plummeting demand, prices and credit besetting companies that stretched their exploration and production budgets in recent years to meet expanding demand.

In these late drawings, the besetting sin of British pre-Raphaelitism - its well-upholstered sentimentality - is of necessity burnt away.

The besetting sins of politicians are pomposity, horribly overrating their own talent and importance, taking themselves too seriously, oversimplifying complex problems, patronising us and being slippery with the truth.

The besetting weakness of politically motivated art is precisely its quotient of willed thought and feeling.

For all his strained seriousness, corn and schmaltz are Mr Spielberg's besetting weakness.

Grantham has often been early, the besetting sin of the value investor.