Sentences with word «peccadillo»

He understands that people know they aren't characters from a movie or book or game, even if they're emulating or inspired by them, and he seems to write with a sense of aspiration in mind — that people are always trying to be their best selves, or the ideal «self» they fantasize about, but the realities of life, and peccadilloes of personal choice inevitably get in the way.

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.

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

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

[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 British establishment has a history of looking after its own and hushing up peccadillos in the interest of what they see as national security.

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

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.

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.

The dinner menu features many of the same dishes as lunch but with an additional selection of sharable internationally inspired small dishes such as the Lacquered Spare Ribs with kung pao glaze, crushed peanuts, scallions and cilantro; Stuffed Yellow Plantains with beef peccadillo and queso fresco; Prosciutto Crudo & Tomatoes; Jerked Pork Slider with house made jerked pork and pickled chayote; and Vietnamese Mussels in a herbed spicy broth.

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!

During the time he was sidelined from politics, Spitzer poured his energy into his father's real estate business, which didn't seem to mind his past 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.

Omatseye, in a gratuitous intellectual peccadillo, called Pa Adebanjo a «turncoat.»

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.

There's hope that Zatoichi brought an end to the days of Kitano's films going unreleased in the U.S., but if I tend towards the cynical, I also tend to be possessive of my little cult peccadilloes.

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.»

Although longer testing might flush out other peccadilloes, the two that stand out are poor rear - view visibility (at least there's a standard backup camera) and the coarse exhaust note.

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.

Like the photos, these objects make wry jokes about consumption, materialism, and art - world peccadilloes.

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.

If you think about it, these are just small and excusable peccadillos, but your insurer might see them differently.

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.

Other lame attempts at humor involve sexual peccadilloes.

Sharply written by Aaron Sorkin, the new drama from NBC adroitly mixes political machinations with personal peccadilloes and keeps the action in both areas moving smartly.

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

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

As with all new software, updates need to be made, and likely will, to address the various gripes and peccadilloes of users.

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

But that's a peccadillo.

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.

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.

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

Unfortunately, we often respond by urging people to sit quietly in lavender churches, reflect upon the state of their souls and feel sad about their peccadilloes.

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.