He understands that people know they aren't characters from a movie or book or game, even if they're emulating or inspired by them, and he seems to write with a sense of aspiration in mind — that people are always trying to be their best selves, or the ideal «self» they fantasize about, but the realities of life, and peccadilloes of personal choice inevitably get in the way. (indiewire.com)
Against this backdrop, director Sacha Gervasi depicts the artist as a brilliant, shrewd, canny and compulsive man with no end of personal peccadilloes (overeating and obsessing over elegant blondes top the list) and renders a portrait of a marriage that was at times strained but resilient enough to last 54 years. (filmnoirblonde.com)
Now that the market has matured and ebooks are competing for the attention of mainstream readers, those little peccadilloes become serious problems. (draft2digital.com)