Sentence examples for own character flaws from inspiring English sources

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His own character flaws, however, sealed his fate.

Some are strangely passive even in the case of their own character flaws.

Loosely structured on John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, the girls also learn about their own character flaws and how to overcome them, from Meg's discovery that money does not bring happiness to Jo's struggle to keep her temper in check.

The most dramatic moment in "Kepler," which has a libretto by Martina Winkel drawn largely from Kepler's writings, is his accounting of his own character flaws, and how he made enemies of most of his colleagues.

A steely smile playing at the corners of her mouth, her eyes glinting with a covert self-awareness, Ms. Rampling's Ranevskaya projects the psychological acuity of someone painfully aware of her own character flaws, yet stubbornly set in her self-defeating ways.

She dubbed him a tragic hero, "screwed by his own character flaws", and argued that this hamartia added to his depth.

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It is full of self-referential nods Peter refers to his own "character flaw"—and frat-boy transpositions, such as the moment when, having broken into Mr. McGregor's garden, Peter deals out lettuce leaves like a high roller making it rain in Vegas.

"This trial is a classic case of an amazingly brilliant policy maker who has ascended to incredible heights, but he is eventually brought down, not by some strong opponent, but by his own family pettiness and his own personal character flaws," said G. Terry Madonna, a professor and director of the Center for Politics and Public Affairs at Franklin and Marshall College.

Sometimes the best characters are created from your own ideals, character, flaws or strengths, and those of family members and friends/foes.

Within minutes he had pivoted from his own "arrogance" and other character flaws to the article on flawed forensic science within the F.B.I. that he was working on when his career began unraveling, at one point likening his own corner-cutting to the overconfidence of F.B.I. scientists who fingered the wrong suspect in the 2004 Madrid bombings.

When Finkel looks at Longo, he sees the flaws in his own character (egomania, manipulativeness, deceit) mirrored and magnified.

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