Sentences with phrase «own peccadilloes»

And these were not lies as a private citizen, or about private business or personal peccadilloes.

But that's a peccadillo.

In July 2016, during the presidential campaign, when Comey publicly announced that Hillary Clinton should not be prosecuted for her email peccadilloes — but strongly criticized her behavior in setting up a private email server while in her role as US secretary of state — Trump did not complain that Department of Justice (DOJ) norms were being violated.

Even had Woods» peccadilloes remained unreported, the tour would be scrambling to deal with the fallout from the past few years of chaos in the financial system.

One should add that, while he is filled with ambition to be the leader of the USA and all that that entails, he doesn't appear to have grandiose weirdo expectations of his own world historical significance, nor does he (as do most of the professing Mormons I have I known) have any of the minor peccadilloes of ordinary vice that cause embarrassment for candidates and elected officials alike.

Despite the fact that I once taught a course (one credit, for freshmen) on love, sex, and politics from Aristophanes to Bill Clinton, I wasn't going to say anything about Anthony Weiner's peccadillos.

One year, I scoured the Old Testament in search of an exotic peccadillo.

An individualistic, introspective, subjective approach to worship makes it easy to forget that we have something far more important to focus on than our peccadilloes; we have the joyous Easter faith to proclaim.

I remember a Calvinist preacher I heard in 1976 who would say stuff like «God is a hoooOOOOOoooly God who can not look upon sin» and condemn his congregation for the merest peccadillo.

Our defects, our weakness, our failures to follow and to attain what we know to be right — all are now recognized for what they are: not harmless peccadilloes, but thoughts and words and deeds that tend to kill God who is active within us.

Here, then, is a sin that is no atrocity, and indeed in her circle is considered at most a peccadillo; «everyone does it.»

Pardon my impatience, but it seems to me that heterosexual peccadilloes often get a free ride, but anything smelling of gay gets 40 lashes minus one.

So it may just be a personal peccadillo that I find «patient endurance» in Revelation 1:9 unendurably bland, preferring something guttier, like «iron intransigence» or «resolute resistance,» or «firmeza permanente,» as the Brazilians like to put it.

Although the young Graham refused to countenance segregated seating in his crusades (often at the price of sullen resistance from white supporters), he seems to have expended equal energy urging civil rights protesters to go slow — giving credence to Reinhold Niebuhr's charge that he expected Christians to give up peccadillos like smoking and cussing overnight, but overcoming racism might understandably take a while.

Womanizing in the White House is not socially approved, but it is, after all, only a personal peccadillo.

This implies that we human beings do not have the ability or right to change or manipulate this immutable and eternal reality based upon our own desire, whims or peccadilloes.

Because your financial situation isn't the best reason to move in together; you should only cohabit if you're prepared to live with your partner 24/7 and all his or her peccadilloes, and not because you want to save money.

The peccadilloes of the ruling classes have long been of fascination and as shadow secretary for media culture and sport, Chris Bryant, has written, sex scandals of all sorts — including adultery, homosexuality (when illegal) and murder — have gone hand - in - hand with political power for centuries.

Politicians are expected to behave differently, yet attempts to hide their peccadilloes, or even to explain away sloppy financial behaviour, suggest that members of these professions do not believe that.

Or the free communal «yabis», to put it in Fela - speak, of the Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State, Udi Iroko yearly festival of yore, in which not even the Ewi, the town's paramount ruler himself, escaped the all - seeing eyes, and free - lashing tongue, against any secret peccadilloes!

New York State Senator Greg Ball's re-election campaign is caught up in a web peccadillo that might put Ball on the wrong side of a law he himself supported.

Why is a dog walker commenting in the media on her client's alleged peccadilloes?

We all have our little peccadilloes, which may include things that sound like various parts of the word «peccadilloes.»

The security that stems from knowing your partner treasures the quirks and peccadilloes you might be self - conscious about around others is empowering.

Everyone, no matter what their peccadilloes, deserves to find someone special.

We all have our sexual peccadilloes: weird places to do it, offbeat positions, porn or no porn, the list goes on — and Katharine Gates knows all about Not registered yet?

Other lame attempts at humor involve sexual peccadilloes.

It also reminds us of classic road - trip movies, such as 1991's «Thelma and Louise» (directed by Ridley Scott and written by Callie Khouri), and is reminiscent of the days when American movies featured authentic, fleshed - out characters with human flaws and quirky peccadilloes.

He commands a small army of seamstresses executing his vision and, at any given moment, one live - in girlfriend subject to Reynolds» fussy and unreasonable peccadilloes and iron - clad routine — until, that is, they just can't take it anymore.

The Little Death: Little seen (sadly), The Little Death is an often hilarious comedy that touches on a wide variety of unusual sexual peccadilloes - with the movie benefiting substantially from a final stretch that packs one hell of an emotional punch.

Potentially trite, About Schmidt's American gothic is an edged document of life after conventional productivity — a picture interested in core questions of identity and progeny that finds humour in the peccadilloes of Jeannie's hippie in - laws (Kathy Bates and Howard Hesseman) and a bridging narrative of Schmidt's continuing correspondence with an anonymous African orphan sponsored through a weepy infomercial.

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.

Sorkin glibly blames Molly's penchant for self - destructive peccadillos on her incessantly demanding, tough - love psychologist father (Kevin Costner), culminating in a pivotal reconciliation scene in which he supplies «all the answers.»

Pop was always one for taking the road never traveled, a trait — or peccadillo — I've inherited.

Some may have peccadilloes that the «generic» car doesn't.

Never mind that the 911 has had its engine in the wrong place for 54 years — we all have our little peccadilloes.

As Davis chronicles it, the tour was a transcontinental bacchanal, in which each member of the band had his own peccadilloes and flash points; imagine Spinal Tap with higher IQs and better management.

Despite a couple of minor peccadilloes, such as the lack of power adapter, I'm very impressed by the Kindle Touch.

Now that the market has matured and ebooks are competing for the attention of mainstream readers, those little peccadilloes become serious problems.

He would do very well in a home with another cat for company yet he is very shy with people and would do best in a calm, quiet home with people who are very patient and understanding of his peccadillos.

[The Aberrant Gamer is is a biweekly, sometimes NSFW column by Leigh Alexander, dedicated to the kinks and quirks we gamers tend to keep under our hats — those predilections and peccadilloes less commonly discussed in conventional media.]

[The Aberrant Gamer is a weekly, somewhat NSFW column by Leigh Alexander, dedicated to the kinks and quirks we gamers tend to keep under our hats — those predilections and peccadilloes less commonly discussed in conventional media.]

[The Aberrant Gamer is a weekly, sometimes NSFW column by Leigh Alexander, dedicated to the kinks and quirks we gamers tend to keep under our hats — those predilections and peccadilloes less commonly discussed in conventional media.]

Publication of deliberately false climate change data literally ought — i.e., MUST — be treated, not as a peccadillo, but as a Crime Against Humanity.

The role of the press in exposing the private peccadilloes of the politicians, etc, is very different in a country such as France, where the right to privacy of the individual is enshrined in the Code Civile.

Regardless of your sexual peccadillos and preferences (and people are free in Canada to have them), if someone tries to force non-consensual sexual anything, it will come back and bite them on the bum one day when their chicks come home to roost, so to speak.

We included this variable based on the theory that repeat players before a particular judge may develop a reputation with the judge or may have a better grasp on a judge's protocol peccadillos.

These two gladiators are trained to search out and exploit the peccadilloes of the opposing party.

asks the despondent romantic, as the puritan furrows his brow and mutters something about sexual peccadilloes.

I don't have the stomach for brekkie at the moment, so I've reverted to that peculiar peccadillo of my twentysomethings and slurp on increasingly antique chicken noodle soup every morning.