Sentences with word «foible»

We can, however, report that the dash screen is very high - res and sharp, but unfortunately it's only visible to the driver — a significant ergonomic foible on a car meant to take well - heeled (read: well - aged) couples on long trips.

Sadly, the high - res screen is visible only to the driver — a significant ergonomic foible in a car meant to take well - heeled (read: well - aged) couples on long trips.

Their comedy works because the Farrellys have not only a keen eye for but also a deep sympathy with human foible; when Jack Black's Hal in Shallow Hal scolds his overweight girlfriend's father for denigrating her looks, we get the gag that in Hal's eyes, she's Gwyneth Paltrow, and we likewise understand that many of this fat girl's self - esteem issues probably do have something to do with the amount of support she's getting from the people closest to her.

Rather, the plot is more of a study on the human foible of indecisiveness.

Even with the odd little foible, inconsistency or instance of male gaze, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is already easy to recommend as some of the best that the series has to offer.

Each of these people has a very human foible, which the actors keep authentic.

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.

«Man - management is clearly not a great skill of Jeremy's,» said Smith, perhaps understating what many of his colleagues have come to conclude was not just an irritating foible but an inexcusable failure of a man who professes a desire to be prime minister.

It charts the life so far of the political celebrity that is Boris Johnson, inevitably much of it concentrated on his personal life, with no foible spared.

There is almost always a foible or two along the way.

Still, that little foible shouldn't detract too much from what has been a hugely impressive season — one which saw Alli score 10 Premier League goals as Spurs achieved their highest - ever Premier League finish.

Such barbarism becomes only but a foible of dastardism's wastelands.

Tallulah is victim of a common modern foible.

It shows the foible of art, myths and parables — the reader can take them wherever they want to go.

You may be aware that cigarette smoking was not Lewis» only, or even his worst foible.

The Facegoogs of the world hold us captive, exploiting our human foibles to draw us into their digital nets.

Lastly, and perhaps most profoundly, Dahl also discovered in writing her book that accepting your own awkwardness can help you be more attuned to and accepting of other people's foibles and anxieties.

It's perhaps not the ideal gadget to be thinking of up in snowy Canada right now, but it's actually the perfect kind of wearable computer since it avoids all the foibles I mentioned recently when I dumped on the category as a whole.

Longtime Tonight Show host Johnny Carson — along with his chief heirs in late night, Jay Leno and David Letterman — poked plenty of fun at political figures, but mainly for their personal foibles, both real and comically exaggerated: Gerald Ford's clumsiness, Ronald Reagan's age, Bill Clinton's appetites.

In her new book, QUIRKY: The Remarkable Story of the Traits, Foibles, and Genius of Breakthrough Innovators Who Changed the World, she delves deeply into the lives of eight creative geniuses to identify the traits and experiences that led them to become breakthrough innovators.

Its hardware foibles mean it's not necessarily ready for the mainstream audience it's shooting for, but techies and early adopter game aficionados are going to want to check it out.

Denton and his oily entourage purport to expose the foibles of the proud and mighty, but in reality, most of Gawker's articles are inane or pointlessly cruel.

For all its foibles, steadfastly clinging to ideology is not one of them.

This industry is not immune from the foibles of greed and human psychology.

And it's his willingness to get stuck into experiences and closely observe the world, his fellow humans, and his own foibles that populates and animates his stories.

If not, get your record keeping in shape before a tax auditor discovers your foibles.

Author Jerry Oppenheimer has built a career chronicling the foibles of the very rich.

Melissa Schilling Professor of Management New York University Discussing her book «Quirky: The Remarkable Story of the Traits, Foibles, and Genius of Breakthrough Innovators Who Changed the World.»

Central bankers, being human, suffer from similar human foibles.

Will the platform find a way to bounce back from all of its 2017 foibles, or is that a porten.

It could have been that the child was rather bright and from an early age picked up on the foibles and inconsistencies of those christians who surrounded him.

(The Native participant had no foibles about wearing his tradition's garb and brandishing his tradition's symbols, replete with white eagle feather, which he presented to Olivia.)

Madeleine L'Engle might as well take her place in line: the line up of people who somehow disappoint us terribly with their humanity and complexities, their sins and foibles, habits and hang - ups, imperfections and inconsistencies, even in the very midst of their greatest soul - stirring work.

The employer for example, who fails even to try to correct manifest abuses eventually «comes to that state which his negligence deserves, 29 eventually becoming unable even to recognize the foibles and misjudgments of business associates.

We have a great need to scandalize, to gloat over the foibles of important figures.

Archimandrite Tikhon has written a classic work of commitment and perseverance that powerfully and entertainingly illuminates the glories and foibles of striving to live a life of faith and truth.

For Auden the doctrine of the incarnation means that when the Word became a «Time Being» and was made flesh, the foibles and limits of the world became strangely graced.

During the period when a college simply functioned as a gathering of the church, with its foibles and deficiencies as well as its advantages and virtues, its Christian identity seemed not to require affirmation or reflection.

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.

God uses our foibles in powerful ways and at the time we don't understand why we have to experiece them.

At the same time, it provides grounds for a sympathetic critique of the charismatic movement's foibles, as well as of the foibles of evangelicals and social activists.

Their foibles are amusing, but what about the object of their faith?

Oh,, also do not forget that we who serve Him sin we sin as long as the day is long, but The Lord knows our imperfections and foibles just don't judge us for your sins and foibles might be even more or greater.

Each week the community changes, bringing different people with different attributes, foibles, likes and opinions.

So great, the Teller and his mate are free but we don't really have a sense of them as «persons» — motivations, history, foibles, loves — like we usually do with our Who monsters.

In the process, Barr exposes other foibles of more recent efforts to maintain that tradition of interpretation: a tendency toward specialization in historical and linguistic cognate fields that avoids theological issues and ironically reduces them to matters archaeological and historical; a style of «maximal conservativism» that approximates earlier positions taken on dogmatic grounds by a current process of selectively appropriating the most conservative elements of a variety of more critical positions; a surprising (and again ironic) tendency to offer «naturalistic» reinterpretations of the miraculous within the highly supernaturalistic inerrancy framework; and so on.

The heroes of Hebrew story walk before us not as painted figures of imagined perfection; their biographers reveal with ruthless candor their foibles aud selfishness.

Mastering the faculty's language, learning how to debate within the school's ideological limits, negotiating the foibles and passions of teachers and other students, figuring out how to be accepted in this community and then how to relate to the folks back home — this struggle can be debilitating as well as exhilarating.

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.

We can see the author smiling behind his pen at the countryman's foibles: the exquisite vizier of all Egypt casting envious eyes on those mangy, ragged creatures, worn with three grueling journeys through the desert!