Sentence examples for unpleasant traits from inspiring English sources

Churchill was a great but flawed man (think of his more unpleasant traits, such as opposing votes for women, or colonialist jingoism, or a reported desire to machine-gun striking miners).

In other cases, a pet can provide an outlet for more unpleasant traits, like a need to control others, a refusal to compromise or an inability to grant other people autonomy.

A decade later, Abram Blau, head of child psychiatry at Mount Sinai Hospital, condemned left-handedness as "an expression of infantile negativism" leading to rebellious stubbornness, secretive superstition, parsimony, obsessive cleanliness and other unpleasant traits — all due, it was believed, to an unloving "refrigerator mother".

Neale and Rowse also idealised the Queen personally: she always did everything right; her more unpleasant traits were ignored or explained as signs of stress.

He wants you to know every unpleasant trait.

While engendering an admirable idealism, it also created Swartz's most unpleasant trait, an exaggerated sense of self-importance, which the film does not hide.

Unpleasant personality traits are almost required of young entrepreneurs trying to build something lasting.

No. He'll see a herd of flawed men and a few women who regularly exhibit unpleasant character traits; who abuse people, facts, and furniture; and who are yet successful and admired.

Unpleasant effects usually resolve spontaneously.

Runners high in self-report trait emotional intelligence also reported higher pleasant and lower unpleasant emotions than runners low in trait emotional intelligence.

It's definitely not comforting to watch a character who represents traits that a person can find unpleasant in others and certainly not themselves.