Sentences with phrase «small foibles»

Small foibles and idiosyncrasies are no longer shortcomings for Haval, the brand instead showing evidence of a corporate personality, rather than simply fitting in.

You might think that a small foible, but do it a few times over the length of a day and you'll understand why I consider it impossible to call this device a phone.

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The leather watch strap a small nod to elegance, I have to admit to a strong dislike of any metal straps on a watch, just a foible of mine.

Atkinson himself attributes his character's popularity to the fact that the socially awkward, middle - aged Bean's mundane adventures, largely due to his clumsy inability to cope with even the smallest of life's foibles, mirror the feelings and experiences of people the world over.

Even when reaching for the operatic, he keeps the focus on small human foibles: a cellphone going off at a funeral; a car parked who knows where; a teenager (Lucas Hedges, in what should be a star - making breakout turn) whose mourning process is no more preoccupying than his desperate attempts to get some alone time with his girlfriend.

Unfortunately, the surrounding production is filled with so much promise that it tends to make extremely minor foibles stick out like a sore thumb — foibles that I assure small - time filmmakers are all too familiar with.

In a warmhearted novel of sweeping scope, Russo animates the dead - end world of Empire Falls, Maine, and shows an unerring sense of the rhythms of small - town life, balancing his irreverent, mocking humor with unending empathy for his characters and their foibles.

Comics is a very small pond for people who are very specialist and they have their foibles.

Missed deadlines, once a common small firm foible (at least, if you believe what the bar associations have always claimed), are no longer as prevalent, having been addressed through the introduction of inexpensive computerized calendaring systems.