Sentence examples for unfortunate weakness from inspiring English sources

And he had an unfortunate weakness for bureaucrat speak.

But Woo, the Chinese-born director of martial-arts films in Hong Kong and movies like "Face/Off" and "Mission: Impossible 2" in Hollywood, has an unfortunate weakness for slow-motion sequences.

Besides a sloppy use of language ("Templeman's sharp and insulting tongue clashing with Malloch's violent temper"), Niven has an unfortunate weakness for cliche, with fateful tales, narrow escapes, hearts sinking and a sun "lifting its burning head over the earth".

Oz, however, is exploiting an unfortunate weakness that is inherent in clinical trials and standard medicine, and is doing so not to help people but to push his own agenda, pandering to industry and a willing public in order to gain the fame he clearly desires.

That, and Lee's unfortunate weakness for trite bromides and pat plot resolutions.

A considerable sensitivity to outlying observations is, however, an unfortunate weakness of Gaussian noise-based data analysis.

While today's news is unfortunate, we would use the weakness as a buying opportunity.

One might have questioned Obama's manhood, using some metaphor of weakness, which would have been unfortunate, but at least applicable to half the population.

It's unfortunate that women have kind of accepted this weakness of men.

However, the subsequent fractures may be explained by increased stress at the end of the HCS as well as an unfortunate placement of proximal locking screws in the intramedullary nail, which created weakness at the base of the femoral neck.

It's unfortunate that bold progressives like Russ Feingold got dragged down in a national rejection of Democratic Party weakness.