Sentence examples for chief fault from inspiring English sources

Alanna's chief fault is a hot temper.

The work's chief fault is that, using only five Foster numbers, it was too short.

It is this lack of restraint in writing which is the chief fault of The Mistressclass.

If the chief virtue of Merriman's book is that, taking the Communards seriously as people, he humanizes their resistance to power, its chief fault is its single-minded advocacy.

"The chief fault of the book," she writes, "is that it describes a descending curve; the life of a successful artist in the full tide of achievement is not so interesting as the life of a talented young girl 'fighting her way,' as we say.

And even if Mr. and Mrs. Miniver or Pestle-Packing Mama and the Curie with the Fringe on Top are the characters designed to play it, it is still a high accomplishment on the screen.Destination GraustarkThe chief fault, in our estimation, with the Warners' "Destination Tokyo" is that there is just too doggone much of it and is all too conventionally crammed in.

In announcing Annan's resignation, the U.N. chief faulted both the government of President Bashar al-Assad and the Syrian opposition for refusing to embrace Annan's six-point peace plan.

Some critics have considered Dvořák's chief faults to be an overly discursive and repetitive manner, occasional lapses in taste, and a weakness of design in his larger works.

One of his chief faults was his tendency to subordinate his own judgment to that of the generals surrounding him; at every critical juncture, before Boston, before New York, before Philadelphia, and in New Jersey, he called a council of war and in almost every instance accepted its decision.

If the chief faults with this book are its looseness and its failure to set the Scottish Enlightenment in its European or even British context, then another is its almost complete dependence on secondary sources, though that is perhaps excusable since its aim is to introduce Scotland to an audience only dimly aware of its existence.

State insurance chief faults health exchange for cancellations.