A "prodigious" drinker ("Hangovers," he wrote in a letter to Jessica Mitford, "were drowned like kittens the following morning"), Fermor also never relinquished what Cooper terms "his weakness for the sleazier pleasures of the night".
Paraguayans appreciated his weakness for horse racing.
They all worry about his weakness for pragmatism.
In the nineteen-sixties, Friedman was nearly ruined by his weakness for craps, baccarat, and blackjack.
His jokes, his quarrelsomeness and his weakness for digression are a drawback.
You can tell he's old school because of his weakness for playing chess with his rivals.
Doing a TV interview, he decides his weakness for approbation is a personality flaw.
At times, Komunyakaa veers off into harangues, where his weakness for punch lines is most evident.
The book includes a number of frank disclosures, including a confession of his weakness for alcohol.
It was his weakness for a foreign seductress that debased and undid Antony.
His weakness for jumping left that day would be less of an issue at Aintree.
