Sentence examples for personal foibles from inspiring English sources

In many democracies, depictions of the corruption and personal foibles of politicians scarcely raise an eyebrow.

And vigorous attacks on the records and personal foibles of Republican challengers can do only part of the job.

She lacks Mr Gingrich's personal foibles as well as his eccentric genius (though her reliance on Mr Murtha is troubling).

Perhaps he tried to outlast the election in order to shelter Obama from the fallout of his own personal foibles.

It wasn't hard to see why: the humor was gentle and apolitical, making light of minor personal foibles.

It should play up splits and divisions and any personal foibles (your own vices, meanwhile, must remain state secrets).This makes the next stages easier.

Her decision seems to have been tolerated as a personal foible and a matter for gossip.

But in the field of damage control, the rapid shifts in access to every personal foible and ill-considered phrase of the rich and famous is the equivalent of flying without a net.

They have forgiven him everything -- every moral failing, every political duplicity, every personal foible -- in trade, in thanks, for the moral high ground he helped to clear, where no side wins but none is vanquished.

As the newly released papers of the late Justice Harry Blackmun demonstrated, Supreme Court justices are human beings with intellectual and personal strengths, foibles and frailties.

But do the personal strengths and foibles of leaders map so neatly onto world-historical developments?