"flawed human nature" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It refers to the idea that all human beings have inherent imperfections or weaknesses. Example: Despite his efforts, John couldn't overcome his greedy tendencies - a result of his flawed human nature.
For at its base, of course, is flawed human nature: which is, unfortunately, a statistical constant.
Since our flawed human nature is difficult to shrug, perhaps you should remember this principle when planning your estate.
In "2001: A Space Odyssey," HAL inherits our flawed human nature and goes mad.
Some sex scandals, like Mark Sanford's, fall into the realm of flawed human nature, and some, like Weiner's, fall into the realm of "Seriously, what is wrong with you?" Huma gained renown, movie star suitors and a Vogue spread as the stylish Muslim Garbo silently and efficiently parting the waves for Hillary.
It will always be a flaw, human nature will always push back, but gradually, bit by bit, with two steps forward, one step back, I think that our better angels can push back against our limitations and flaws.
Traffic jams are not, by and large, caused by flaws in road design but by flaws in human nature.
Mr. Shattuck, drawing on an impressive degree of erudition, shows some of the sources of Proust's deliberation on these deep flaws in human nature, and he links those flaws to another concept, which Proust called "intermittence," the inability of people to be all of themselves at any given time.
Later in the conversation, Palumbo suggests there may be a flaw in human nature which combines with a flaw in democracy itself to leave us open to being manipulated in just such short-termist ways.
He asserts that many of the problems we face today are the consequences of the increasing democratization of our government and that the flaws of democracy, being ultimately an expression of the flaws in human nature, are unlikely to be corrected.
Or maybe the source of the McCormick scam isn't a tragic flaw in human nature but a specific quirk that predisposes us to believe in the ability of sticks to point at things.
As Markus Jakobsson, chief scientist at email specialist Agari, explains in this interview, the technology and techniques involved in online scams have evolved – and so have our responses – but the underlying flaw remains human nature itself.
