Sentence examples for shortcomings something from inspiring English sources

Instead, the bidders often highlight the perceived strengths of their bids to note delicately what they believe to be their rivals' shortcomings, something known in the communications industry as counter-positioning.

This well-placed endorsement (from a man who, whatever his shortcomings, knows something about yarns) helped make the book a national best-seller.

I think that the characters' flaws and shortcomings are something that people can relate to.

That shortcoming is something I want to discuss at greater length this week.

Whatever the shortcomings, there is something authentic and bold about this Russian orchestra's Mahler.

Chvrches' shortcomings tonight have something to do with the venue's PA, or the sound man, who struggles initially to frame Mayberry's vocals; she is still easily overwhelmed by the boys' noise, which hits club frequencies.

This shortcoming may owe something to clashing egos.

"Maybe Jonathan has spotted something about my shortcomings as a father – and as the progenitor of Northern Broadsides".

It may say something about the shortcomings of Ascot's great edifice of a grandstand that the 80,000 who watched Black Caviar in the Diamond Jubilee Stakes could not generate the same atmosphere as 32,000 at Town Moor.

Suddenly, she finds herself open to the world anew, no longer derisive of her neighbors' garish Christmas decorations but "grateful for the sheer silly exuberance," and increasingly aware of both her culpability in her children's struggles and her own shortcomings, her restless desire for something larger, for perfection, for the impossible fulfillment of her ideals.

Mr. Ryan did not shy from offering pointed advice well before he was named running mate: for months, he had urged Mr. Romney to focus his campaign as much on a "a positive vision" as on the shortcomings of the Obama presidency, something Mr. Romney has since emphasized.