Sentence examples for chief defect from inspiring English sources

The Chief Defect of Henry King Was chewing little bits of String.

Its chief defect is that it can quickly become dull and mechanical for the student.

While criticizing prolixity as the chief defect of the book, he said that the author "abundantly reminds us of the contradictory, variously colorful, prosaic and at times moving outer record of Ibsen the man".

The chief defect is theatrical: despite Gelb's promises of modernization, stagings are less sure-footed, less cohesive, than they were in the Joseph Volpe era — no golden age, to be sure.

The chief defect is theatrical: despite Gelb's promises of modernization, stagings are less sure-footed, less cohesive, than they were in the Joseph Volpe era no golden age, to be sure.

I harp on that dropped thread, the chief defect in an otherwise lively and intelligent report about a crucial event in the culture wars, because Slack is otherwise so good at presenting the story's personal and political elements.

The chief defects of both bazookas were their cumbersome weight and length and their short effective range (about 120 yards [110 metres]).

The task is no easy one, for the opera has merits which are likely to be interpreted as its chief defects; that is to say, Puccini offers us, in this last effort of his, music that is both better than and different from what the public has come to expect of him – an admirable and a fatal thing for a popular composer to do.

Its newly appointed Navy chief defected after barely 24 hours on the job.

New Ukraine navy chief defects Jump to media player The newly appointed head of Ukraine's navy has sworn allegiance to the Crimea region, in the presence of its unrecognised pro-Russian leader.

However, in this context I can address only what I see as the two chief defects in his account: he misconstrues (1) the conceptual relation between Semmelweis and his predecessors (including his teachers in Vienna), and (2) Semmelweis's role in the sea change that swept medicine during the middle decades of the century.