Sentence examples for defect of character from inspiring English sources
A clear and unambiguous political extremism is reimagined as a mere defect of character.
Horrific crimes deserve stern justice, but don't we want to be careful about criminalizing a defect of character?
His pitilessness is also made much of – as if it were a branch of truthfulness rather than a defect of character.
In suggesting that alcoholism was a chemical condition marked by irresistible craving, he anticipated the transformation of our understanding of addiction from a defect of character into a disease, and recognized the reason that it would remain, at best, an uneasy hybrid of the moral and the medical.
For that view implies, in Adams's words, that "the creator's choice of an inferior world must manifest a defect of character".
And his response to this objection is that "God's choice of a less excellent world could be accounted for in terms of His grace, which is considered a virtue rather than a defect of character in Judeo-Christian ethics" (Adams, 1972, 318-319).
Sara also has an unusual approach to romance, which involves selflessly devoting herself to a different man each month, and helping him sort out his defects of character.
But at least from the evidence of the report, you seem to have made no similarly thoughtful attempt to discover root causes of conservative behavior beyond simple defects of character.
J. Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist who oversaw the creation of the atomic bomb, was lauded as a patriot after the United States dropped the bomb on Japan, but nine years later he was disgraced, accused of Communist sympathies and "substantial defects of character".
The American sociologist C Wright Mills was later to observe that if one man in a city of 20,000 people is unemployed, his condition might be ascribed to defects of character, but that if 1,000 are out of work, the fault must lie elsewhere.
