Sentence examples for small weakness from inspiring English sources

There is, however, a small weakness: chocolate eclairs, which are "her absolute favourite".

And he had one very small weakness, which was that he wasn't nearly as successful with women as you would have thought.

It's a relief to find out that someone who scares everyone else and seems untouchable has a small weakness, although I don't think it will be much use to England tomorrow.

They can be remarkably resilient and self-healing, yet at times quite vulnerable to some specific, seemingly small weakness — as if a tiny tear in a crucial artery were to cause someone to suffer heart failure.

The test results also showed that Chen and Teng's [J. Struct. Eng. 127(2001) 784] bond strength model is slightly conservative when the FRP-to-concrete width ratios are at the two extremes, but this small weakness can be easily removed when more test results of good quality become available.

Expressing a willingness to learn more or admitting a small weakness will make you appear honest.

Brock Cole's illustrations more than compensate for small weaknesses in the text.

But, she concluded, "these are small weaknesses in what is a bounding, vibrant, richly imagined and thoroughly engaging whole".

But such small weaknesses are outweighed by the potency of other relationships, which feel rich and terrifying — the Tower of London looms behind even the most innocent chitchat.

(I should mention that she used my collection of personal essays, Learning to Drive, to illustrate the double standard by which women autobiographers are slammed for revealing small weaknesses while men are praised as honest and bold for chronicling their addictions and wife-beating. And as long as we are on the subject, let me add that my shocked, shocked reviewers were women).

Kubota is trying to increase sales of larger tractors and expand market share in Thailand, China and Europe to offset small tractor weakness in America.