The phrase "central shortcoming" is correct and usable in written English.
This phrase can be used to refer to an important flaw or deficiency that affects the overall success of something. For example, "The central shortcoming of the plan was that it did not take into account the environmental impact of the proposed development."
The central shortcoming of this cliche-ridden, chocolate-boxy film is not the endless ways it distorts (actually flattens out) the facts.
HP still does some basic research, adds Dick Lampman, who heads HP Laboratories, but when people "celebrate the other model, they lose sight of what it takes to take a good idea and make it into an exciting product".The fusion of research and development is meant to solve the central shortcoming of Bush's plan: how to turn ideas into commercial innovations.
The twee lyricism and self-consciously ethereal voice they are sung in point to the central shortcoming of "Murder of Crows".
Its only central shortcoming is that it does not yet provide the structure(s) of what the authors clearly demonstrate is the key mediator of the structural signaling across the membrane: the HAMP domain (i.e., "with the HAMP domain driving the main regulatory effects").
The construction process of the concrete item formulations to integrate the referred subconstructs addressed a central shortcoming of some of the existing inventories: the lack of clarity concerning the targeted subconstructs (e.g. mixed contents) and/or the inappropriateness of the formulations for self-assessment in adolescents (e.g. too complicated).
Two central shortcomings are found in these theories, namely universalism and separation of learning from instruction.
This approach of placing several, positively as well as negatively connoted items on both ends of each scale aims at addressing two central shortcomings of alternative short personality measures: First, it takes several facets of one personality dimension into account.
"There are shortcomings, but not fundamental shortcomings," he said.
Goaltending is another shortcoming.
But he noted a shortcoming.
There is another shortcoming.
