Sentence examples for psychological failings from inspiring English sources

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Permit me to make a relevant digression into my own psychological failings.

"It's about the personal and psychological failings of a man, a prime minister, who was not able to curb a woman who became hungry with power," he said of Mr. Necas.

And, if last week's toolbox assault showed his capacity for exploiting physical weakness, this week it's the psychological failings in others that Cohle pokes and prods at, be it the sex offender he gently breaks down in interrogation by using the comforting language of faith, or Hart himself, whose fragile home life Cohle undermines through the simple act of mowing his lawn.

( Thanks, guys!) It's also easy to blame them for your psychological failings, especially if your parents aren't together.

Thanks in part to Donald Trump's media diagnosis, Narcissistic Personality Disorder has overtaken "psychopath" and "bipolar" to emerge as the number one label for others' perceived psychological failings.

Thanks in part to Donald Trump's media diagnosis, Narcissistic Personality Disorder has overtaken "psychopath" and "bipolar" to emerge as our number one label for others' perceived psychological failings.

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Bootstrap thinking tells me that I should dismiss as a psychological failing the unique panic I feel when I'm in front of an all-white audience, or my worry that I'll seem like an "ungrateful black writer" at a fancy venue at which I've been conditioned to feel unworthy (as BuzzFeed's Saeed Jones put it), or the fear I feel whenever I encounter police even in passing.

The capitulation is a low point of his presidency, exposing the limitlessness of Trump's moral, psychological and geopolitical failings.

Mr. Urban makes Woodrow's judgment of Maggie so genuinely priggish that what should resonate as a psychological and moral failing seems instead like a breach of etiquette, analogous to a man who keeps forgetting to bring hostess gifts to dinner.

Ferrero had to save two set points to win the second set, shrug off the loss of the third set, then overcome the psychological fallout of failing miserably when he first served for the match at 5-3 in the final set.

It's his weight, it's the blood clot, it's his attitude, it's the lingering psychological impact of failing after convincing his manager to send him out for the ninth inning in Game 5 of the World Series, and of course, it's his body's blowback from a busy 2015 post-surgery season.

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