It is much easier to spot the shortcomings of others than to see our own.
"Maybe Jonathan has spotted something about my shortcomings as a father – and as the progenitor of Northern Broadsides".
He wrote: "Any reviewer with more than a high-school knowledge of chemistry and the ability to understand a basic data plot should have spotted the paper's shortcomings immediately.
Maybe not; the very idea that Churchill had "blind spots and shortcomings" might get them stirred up all over again.
It's hard for me to care about characters who don't have any blind spots or shortcomings, because they can seem too perfect and bland.
"They were keen observers of each other's blind spots and shortcomings, if not always their own, and they were hard-headed about their ability to remake the world," who had "a shared belief in the ultimate triumph of human freedom and human dignity — a conviction that we have a say in how this story ends".
"For all our blind spots and shortcomings," President Obama said, in last year's State of the Union address, "we are a people with the strength and generosity of spirit to bridge divides, to unite in common effort, to help our neighbors, whether down the street or on the other side of the world".
The truth will also free anti-gay Christians from their own heterosexist prejudices and theological blind spots -- shortcomings that would otherwise prevent them from entering fully into the reign of God.
Because I want this chamber, this city, to reflect the truth — that for all our blind spots and shortcomings, we are a people with the strength and generosity of spirit to bridge divides, to unite in common effort, and help our neighbors, whether down the street or on the other side of the world.
One shortcoming of this method is that all nests that are spotted on the original survey are excluded from the analysis, resulting in a relatively small sample size for a given survey effort.
