Sentence examples for fault of character from inspiring English sources

Some letters to close friends reveal intimate feelings of self-doubt: "I wish I didn't worry so much myself: worry about not writing books, worry about writing books when I have written them, worry about what people will think, worry about the fact that other people write good books … I'm sure this is a fault of character".

Undoubtedly, La Salle was hampered by faults of character and lacked the qualities of leadership.

For all the faults of character voice, the tone of the narrative is pitch-perfect.

In all this, his opponents showed faults of character far worse than any that can be attributed to Bill Clinton.

As a novelist, Russo habitually turns glaring faults of character into comic tours de force, reveling in the vanities of human nature.

Mr. Wilson even tosses in a dose of Sophocles for good measure, the Sophocles wherein faults of character lead to the most horrible sexual crimes imaginable.

Mental illness, alcoholism, depression, anxiety are not faults of character or weakness in self-control.

Reading guides sometimes encourage us to diagnose the faults of characters who display their "unlikability," as if diagnosis might helpfully lead to dismissal.

But then Hazlitt along with Bradley was censured for displaying faults of the "character" school of Shakespearean criticism, primarily that of discussing dramatic characters as though they were real people, and again Hazlitt's contributions to Shakespearean criticism were deprecated.

Whatever the faults of his character, he certainly was never idle.

Although Walter Map declared that Geoffrey was "full of faults and devoid of character", he remained loyal to his father until Henry's death.