It has just given people the tools to practice the same human foibles with greater speed and less expense and to expand our social network to the entire world instead of the small neighborhoods in which we grew up.
Different personnel, same foibles.
The stories in "Mere Anarchy" deliver the same joys and foibles that have been with its author from the start.
Here was a callow teenage superhero with the same doubts and foibles as the audiences reading the comic, desperately trying to balance his duties to the people of Manhattan with his studies, chores and need to earn enough pocket money to take Mary Jane out on a Saturday night.
They have all the same faults and foibles.
Talese made athletes human, which is not the same as exposing their foibles.
Obviously it's a massive problem, but the human foibles are the same".
But the tendency of both principal characters to analyze their scholarly obsessions and their personal foibles in the same microscopic detail, contemplating every single "exponentially branching" possibility, eventually wears on the nerves.
He was able to empathize with his characters while at the same time exposing their excesses and foibles; he could project himself into the fictional realms he created, even as he stood back and wryly commented upon them.
