Sentence examples for ordinary weakness from inspiring English sources

These facts provide us with some grounds for thinking that ordinary weakness of will may often involve a loss of control mediated by judgment shift, and that addicts who find themselves consuming against their prior considered judgment that they ought to refrain typically have lost control in this manner.

It is worth emphasizing, however, that both the loss of control seen in addiction and ordinary weakness of will involve reason-responsive behavior; behavior, that is, that seems to be under the control of doxastic states (as Austin (1979: 198) notes, we may "succumb to temptation with calm and even with finesse").

Ross (2013) argues that Ainslie ignores the neuropsychological differences between ordinary agents and addicts; whatever the merits of his view as an explanation of ordinary weakness of will, it cannot account for the more spectacular pathologies of action seen in addiction, he claims.

They're brilliantly assembled, brutally effective, airtight machines of plot and observation in which ordinary weaknesses and desires have inevitably dire consequences.

Freud, Jung, all the psychoanalytic pioneers and every psychoanalyst since them, were and are ordinary humans with ordinary weaknesses and frailties, but the core of the psychoanalytic message remains supremely important and is ignored at our peril.

Although "S's" highly developed power of concrete visualization made possible feats of memory far beyond the ordinary, he exhibited weakness in abstract thinking.

(A person shows signs of synesthesia when he reports that stimulation through one sense leads to experiences in another sense; for example, such a person may say that he sees vivid flashes of colour when he hears music). Although "S's" highly developed power of concrete visualization made possible feats of memory far beyond the ordinary, he exhibited weakness in abstract thinking.

Do not confuse an Achilles heel with an ordinary shortcoming or weakness that can be worked on and improved.

Evidence from social psychology is adduced, to suggest that a similar process may be involved in ordinary cases of weakness of will.

And then there is also the monosyllabic vocabulary — "I like words of one syllable," she tells us, but has no need to tell us — and the lovable weakness for ordinary American idioms, as in her famous assignment of Paris as her "home town".

Ordinary Muslims' feelings of weakness and a sense of disconnection with and lack of support from the regimes that have ruled the Arab and Muslim world grew over time and was inherited by members of the Muslim millennial generation who wanted to belong to an entity that blends power, religion and modernity.