Sentence examples for downfall i from inspiring English sources

I, for one, have long known that if I ate only potato chips sliced and fried by my own hands (potato chips being my particular downfall), I would not eat very many potato chips.

Now it's turned into an odd mixture of things that I watch with my daughter, such as Fantastic Mr Fox, and stuff on late-night TV like Downfall – I was there at 3am, watching the unravelling of Hitler's regime.

Here's the original scene from "Downfall" (I haven't seen the film in its entirety): it's written to capture a moment of world-historical significance, but it's charmingly overacted by the great Bruno Ganz and directed with a merely generic competence by Oliver Hirschbiegel, in a style that would be equally appropriate (and silly) in a prime-time romance.

As one investor said to him in a tense meeting before his downfall: "I've been listening to what my distinguished colleagues have been saying.

Gmail's greatest strength (openess) is also its downfall i.e. random emails from [email protected].

The only downfall I've come across so far is that you can't actually create one POI.

Engineer a downfall Is another great British company about to hit the buffers?

No matter how much success I've had, no matter how many downfalls, I still believe I can be better".

"No matter how much success, how many downfalls, I believe I can be better".

"I think my biggest downfall is I'm trying to do too much and make it bigger than it really is," Parnell said.

"I think that was his downfall and I wonder if, in the end, he realised that, because just after Christmas last year, I heard from my aunt that he'd asked how I was.