Sentences with phrase «common foible»

It could be that you're taking every client that comes through your door, which is a common foible of lawyers hanging shingles, as well as general practitioners.

A little due diligence (finding out what's in that ETF) and some trading restraint (watch the brokerage costs) and you'll avoid the most common foibles.

Not exact matches

In «The Christmas Oratorio» his comic witnesses of the Nativity train attention on our common human foibles and show that the general drudgery and pettiness of our lives may contain an underlying dimension of significance and worth.

the possibility and necessity of living in a dimension of meaning in which the urgencies of the struggle are subordinated to a sense of awe before the vastness of the historical drama in which we are jointly involved; to a sense of modesty about the virtue, wisdom, and power available to us for the resolution of its perplexities; to a sense of contrition about the common human frailties and foibles which lie at the foundation of... our vanities; and to a sense of gratitude for the divine mercies which are promised to those who humble themselves.

Tallulah is victim of a common modern foible.

Slow and mournful, it does not seem to have much in common with the work of other directors who emerged during the decade, especially vivid stylists with urban preoccupations like Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Brian De Palma, Paul Schrader, and William Friedkin, or a caustic observer of human foibles like Robert Altman.

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.

During the optional sharing time, we realize that we are not alone in the marriage journey and that some of the issues and foibles are common to others in the group.