D. Salinger: A Life," which draws liberally from Salinger's letters and a memoir by his daughter, Margaret, is flawed by a tendency to assume direct correspondences between the author's life and work.
Automated genotyping systems, to the degree that they are flawed, have a tendency to overcall homozygotes and undercall heterozygotes, but there is no reason to assume that bb or BB genotypes would be differentially miscalled according to any exposure, including menopausal status.
David Brooks puts his finger on our innate tendencies toward flawed perception as the cause of the current problems in the global economy.
Recall biases, flawed recollections, and any tendency to rationalise early choices with hindsight are impossible.
This means questioning the uses of the state, and whether its structures, rather than having "undemocratic tendencies", are inherently flawed.
He had a natural and gifted sense of the comicalness of people, of their flaws and tendencies and nature.
We should accept that we are flawed humans and as such we will have a tendency to use material things or status and the like to attach our own identity to.
Add to that our tendency to embellish the truth or our often flawed memory, and the natural erosion of facts that occur when stories are told through the Whisper-Down-the-Lane generations.
Both have a tendency to manifest moments of startling brilliance while remaining deeply flawed, a pattern which reached its apotheosis for Tarantino on 2009's Inglourious Basterds.
As president and commander in chief of the Confederate forces, Davis revealed many fine qualities, including dignity, firmness, determination, and honesty, but he was flawed by his excessive pride, hypersensitivity to criticism, poor political skills, and tendency to micromanage.
