Sentences with phrase «foibles in»

The line from the show DD kept quoting at me all weekend was about how you only reveal a few of your flaws and foibles in the first few months and then wait until the other person falls in love with you before exposing the rest.

So, for example, even if a superior repeatedly points out to the person that he should ditch the here - and - there words and other forms of legalese (as The Lawyerist's Andy Mergendahl has advised here), or that nominalizations and buried verbs should be reworked into active voice, or that Enclosed please find (PDF) is silly and should be stricken from all correspondence, a month or two later the superior will see these legal - writing foibles in a letter, memorandum, or, worse, a brief filed with a court.

In closing, we urge our readers to set aside any negative ideas thay may have gotten about fuel cell foibles in transportation.

Rockwell's art brought a self - recognition to a broad American public who perhaps saw their own passions and foibles in his illustrative vignettes.

Goha, a character in Middle Eastern folklore, imparts wisdom, tricks fools, and exposes human foibles in fifteen amusing stories.

Fitting that a film about a play with a problematic ending would itself fix all of its characters» follies and foibles in the end and wrap it up in one tidy, crowd - pleasing bow.

An ensemble of characters popping in and out despite focusing more attention on the characters of Sarah and Brad, it's one of the more in - depth studies of human behavior and their foibles in a gated community.

Enough Said is a unique film in that it isn't about the man having to overcome his foibles in order to be worthy of the woman he wants, it's about a woman who must look within and come to terms on whether she can accept someone else into her life who has a set of flaws that someone she regards highly finds unacceptable.

Livio will detail some central foibles in the history of science in a public lecture tonight at 7 P.M. Eastern time to be broadcast live below.

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

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.

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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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 oIn 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 oin 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.

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.

Obama tried to do right by her by employing the composite, and had Dreams only been the book it was initially presented as, he might have done well - enough by her, but since all along he was hoping that it could also benefit his political ambitions, his inclusion of the play - incident will probably eventually result in exposing her foibles to the largest possible audience.

He's received Coach of the Year push for keeping the decimated Boston team in good playoff position, but that honestly had a lot to do with the Cavaliers» foibles and how big a cushion the C's had built up when (relatively) healthy.

I new someone intellergent would point out my spelling foibles — they're are always clever people you can relay on to help with a spelling bee, and even yew and Chas chip in two.

Humor, funny, ha ha... satire uses both in reference to every day human weaknesses and foibles to make us THINK or simply to share the experience of being human!

I'm not sure why we insist politicians resign in the heat of the moment when we're so willing to accept their foibles, and repentance, after the fact.

I revel in the cathartic aspect of admitting all manner of embarrassing mom foibles.

But as much as Saraki (using the Senate to play the Samson, that would rather take everybody down for his personal foibles) kids himself he is the real deal, he is only a tool in the crafty and evil hands of the electorally vanquished, up in their fond game of blocking positive change in the lives of the people.

I will probably never feel the same way I did it in that first blush of ardent devotion for this place, but I might learn to live with its foibles.

If a politician with foibles has managed to last in public office for a few years without getting busted, it's amazing the kinds of shady doings they can rack up.

What would David Cameron have said about the financial foibles of an individual such as Maria Miller who sat in high office while he was in opposition?

In the end, the history of zoology reveals as much about our human foibles as about the animals we study.

The occasional foibles and forgetfulness we associate with normal aging could, in fact, be the earliest signs that the brain is losing its ability to fuel itself effectively.

Doing everything, in fact, with a fondness for one's foibles.

Equally important is to resist the temptation to bring up the foibles of your fellow co-parents in front of the children, whether you are talking about the ex of your new partner, or your own ex.

In fact, you may even be easier to get along with once you accept that life comes with foibles, flaws and even failures.

Dating is a stage of romantic relationships in humans whereby two people meet socially with the aim of each assessing the other's suitability as a This hit comedy chronicles the foibles of disgruntled office workers — led by deluded boss Michael Scott — at the Dunder Mifflin paper company.

Even with some foibles, Hell is Empty does a fantastic job filling in the blanks of what happened before Chloe was reunited with Max.

He has a way of glossing over his once real candidate's foibles, Bobby Kennedy and Gary Hart, while pretending to have answers that he doesn't have or, at least, doesn't present them that well in the film.

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.

Bridget's still awkward and prone to embarrassing foibles, but she's older, wiser, comfortable in her own skin.

It's here that the movie spends most of its time and focus, charting the personal foibles and back stories of its young charges (the neurotic, the hottie working her way through med school by stripping, et al) by bouncing them off one another in randy and / or otherwise charged fashion, all while also still allowing for some showcase fun from Thomas» considerable roster of friends, including Dave Foley, Matt Frewer, Saul Rubinek and Maury Chaykin.

There's none of the contrived bullying one expects, in its place being a general pay - no - mind indifference, from peer and adult alike, to the pair's respective obsessions and foibles.

As in Demme's best early work (Handle With Care, Melvin & Howard), there is both an affection for a uniquely American type of oddball and a clear - eyed sense of their foibles.

Great pains were no doubt exerted to make these entities as grotesque and nightmare - inducing as possible, yet, there is still some humor in their interaction with humans as well as their own foibles and relationships with each other.

Mighty Aphrodite's affectionate Greek chorus is the obvious point of analogy, and so we expect another heavy, forgiving sigh about human foibles, this time in the eternal city, as per Allen's European funding.

Just remember that it's only a fantasy, and you should have no problem finding enough amusement in Twisp's foibles to justify the twisted life lessons pushed forth.

She's helped considerably by a fine cast (including the too seldom seen Marie Riviere and Andre Wilms), but in the end it's Bruni Tedeschi's sure grasp of the milieu — and in particular her acute understanding of the specific foibles of a rich, arty but out - of - touch class nostalgic for an earlier era — that makes the film a modest but surprisingly substantial delight.

Lake Bell holds the thing together through sheer charisma, and in fact the foibles of the movie only start to show when she absents herself for extended stretches of time.