Sentence examples for greatest fault from inspiring English sources

'Stories never filled my belly!'" Such wastebasket-fodder is symptomatic of Mitchell's greatest fault: he explains too much.

Madison's greatest fault was delay in discharging incompetent subordinates, including Secretary of War John Armstrong, who had scoffed at the president's repeated warnings of a coming British attack on Washington and ignored presidential orders for its defense.

In Oliver Hirschbiegel's 2004 film "Downfall," Braun has a little more pluck mostly, she just wants to party but again, her greatest fault is her blind loyalty to the Fuhrer, not bloodthirsty anti-Semitism.

In Oliver Hirschbiegel's 2004 film "Downfall," Braun has a little more pluck--mostly, she just wants to party--but again, her greatest fault is her blind loyalty to the Fuhrer, not bloodthirsty anti-Semitism.

"Ruben's greatest fault," said Daniel Murphy, a fellow firefighter who has been the Correa family's liaison with the Fire Department since Sept. 11, "was that he never learned to take the first pitch".

Often the greatest fault of these teachers lies not in their pedagogical approach but in their refusal to yield to the unreasonable dictates or mercurial personalities of the principal.

Star Trek has always shone a light on mankind's noblest qualities, but it also reflects our greatest faults.

He rates this tendency, and the need to sharpen her killer instinct, as her greatest faults, and believes she will not mature enough to achieve her full potential until 1974.

Religion is one of the great fault lines in Nigeria, an ambitious creation of British colonialists.

That is the great fault of postmodernist historiography: it cannot distinguish past from present or future.

Americans "live on the far side of a great fault line" separating them from all prior human experience.