Sentence examples for character failings from inspiring English sources
After running through the character failings of Gov. Clinton, Pres.
Hence their readiness to blame the disappointments of the Administration's first two years mainly on Obama's alleged moral or character failings — cowardice, spinelessness, insincerity, duplicity, what have you).
David Edmonds and John Eidinow, who have also written about the row between Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper, have a liking for the character failings of big minds.
Batmanghelidjh said it was "a cheek" to suggest it was character failings on the part of young people that led them to join in the rioting, rather than wider social issues such as deprivation and unemployment.
The main lesson of this match is that no side, let alone England, can afford to deprive themselves of their most talented performers on largely spurious suspicions of character failings or, worse still, of not fitting in.
An increasingly marginalised Scott left No 10 in 2003 for the City, and the following year he published his book Off Whitehall, which created a stir because it was a first-hand account of the rows between Brown and Blair and highlighted the former's "destructive and deceitful behaviour" and character failings.
That trait can be a character failing in politics.
My favorite project is Formers Anonymous, which is based on the model of Alcoholics Anonymous, and which treats hateful street thuggery as an addiction rather than a character failing or an ideological predilection.
You could also point out a character failing, such as saying things like "Oh that's just plain arrogant of you to say that,"or "Well, I'm now thoroughly convinced of your ignorance in the matter".
He's so honest about his characters' failings or weaknesses or mistakes, and so compassionate towards them – as the Monster says in this book, most people aren't good guys or bad guys, but somewhere in between.
Seen closely enough, much of the book is about characters failing not to feel bad about what they've done.
