Sentence examples for foibles from from inspiring English sources

He tolerated all kinds of foibles from his musicians, as long as they delivered when he wanted and needed.

However, the foibles from the solo game remain: controls feel counter-intuitive, and the grappling hook and weapon-change buttons sporadically refuse to function.

Mums and dads have learned their own foibles from their parents, so I would like to make a few suggestions about parenting, on behalf of schools … and children. 1 Your children love you and look up to you.

This annual discipline removes human foibles from the equation.

This means knowing people well enough to be able to make fun of their little foibles, from their obsession with chocolate to their clumsy nature.

Herring is both a pendant and a perfectionist, and much of his comedy, and his foibles, come from that obsessiveness.

We've already dismissed the show's attempt to make him the troubled vagrant whose foibles stem from selfishness.

Where writers from Martin Amis to John Lanchester have covered the capital with a level of remove, as though circling the city from above to record its foibles, Smith writes from the bustling high streets of her youth, moving through the crowds purposefully like the native Londoner she is.

— repeatedly spoke only one word: "murmel," which means "mumble," as they engaged in slapstick foibles: constant tumbles from the stage, a hilariously pathetic inability to pull up their pants.

I used to think it was this latter outburst that, more than any of his other foibles, disqualified him from ruling – now, pace Mayer, I'm inclined to think it's precisely this aspect of his character – at once passionate, surreal and whimsical – that renders him fit to be our king.

Who are you, Mystery MobileMe Man? Regardless of its foibles, the communication from Apple is a nice gesture.