Dyson gives us a thoroughly contemporary King, an enigmatic hero whose flaws and failings make him more, not less, relevant to our times.
But Mr. Gbagbo's claim to the presidency rests on an election whose flaws ran deeper than General Guei's attempted rigging of the final vote count.
Their guide is the maddening Stephen Meek Bruce Greenwoodd), whose flawed navigational skills have left them plodding from one parched and featureless plateau to another as supplies and energies dwindle.
Fleabag's brother-in-law, played with sinister brio by Brett Gelman, of "Married," is a charming drunk whose flaws mimic her own.
The ones whose flaws hang out freely, skimming their crumpled shirts, the ones too hungover or too righteous to ever adopt a slick veneer.
On one of my last days in Belgium, Tom took me to meet his grandmother, whose flaws Godelieva had described so relentlessly that Tom had trouble seeing her as a person in her own right.
More than a few readers wrote to me to say I was making a false equivalence between Fox and MSNBC, whose flaws or sins or slants or whatever you'd like to call them aren't quite the same.
The woman in question, Carla Gugino, was once a model, yes, but she now enchants to more complicated ends in film and television, as alpha female characters whose flaws are explored with absolutely no pity.
Coe's approach to Johnson is just right: endlessly patient with a mass of material, affectionate, humorous, making no attempt to idealise his subject, whose flaws of character were all too obvious to everyone who knew him.
