The phrase "faults and failings" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's shortcomings or imperfections, often in a reflective or critical context.
Example: "We all have our faults and failings, but it's important to learn from them and grow."
Alternatives: "flaws and shortcomings" or "deficiencies and weaknesses."
"We share the faults and failings of society in a broader way: fewer opportunities for women, lesser pay, less respect.
2. Whether, whatever Obama's faults and failings, his attempts, such as they are/were, to raise tax rates on rich people and maybe curtail some of the swinishness on Wall Street make him a socialist.
I like the way Judaism flags up a day to take stock of our actions, moral or otherwise, admitting responsibility for our faults and failings and promising to be better people.
She rues the fact that she has won five times, because although she's had all the treats, she would rather have been in the boardroom, spending valuable time with Surallun telling her what her faults and failings are.
In any case, what if we all tried to go our own way, distanced from the faults and failings of those we felt were dragging our names into the mud?
Whether, whatever Obama's faults and failings, his attempts, such as they are/were, to raise tax rates on rich people and maybe curtail some of the swinishness on Wall Street make him a socialist.
Earnest to a fault and failing to ignite passions as a film about the suffragette movement really should, it's been notably absent during awards season.
Such complacency is akin to living on a geologic fault line and failing to take precautions against earthquakes and tsunamis.
One of the chores I had had to do always was read every word of the X issue (just out), point out faults, repetitions, typos, merits, and failings.... Apparently my reports (or a report) became too burdensome and worst of all carried queries I should have asked of someone else.
So, everything from the Russians did it to Bernie Sanders fault and really failing to grasp the ways that Hillary Clinton was not just a bad candidate even though you know, she clearly was a bad candidate but the failure of the party to really understand the- the political dynamics and really how do you activate the 108 million people who were eligible to vote but who didn't vote.
Understand that it is not your fault and that failing to relactate does not, in any way, make you a bad mother.
