Sentences with phrase «personal foibles»

For example, the interviewer might let personal foibles get in the way of selecting the best candidate.

Family secrets, company secrets, personal foibles and indiscretions all must on occasion be revealed to the lawyer by the client.

His art embraces personal foibles and important events in American history, such as the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights movement.

His paintings have taken on subjects ranging from embarrassing personal foibles to important events in American history such at the Vietnam War, the civil rights movement, and the atrocities at Abu Ghraib.

Kurt creates derelict montages of embarrassing personal foibles.

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.

(Democratic leaders fumed behind the scenes last week as Weiner struggled to explain himself, insisting that his personal foibles were making it difficult to keep the focus on Republicans» Medicare woes.)

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.

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.

[I don't buy them, but that's just a personal foible.]

Not exact matches

When it comes to personal attacks, I'm sure that particularly on the Democratic side they have a lot of answering to do for their own foibles.»

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.

That meant test subjects would have to expose everything — their genes and traits, their strengths, foibles, and personal idiosyncrasies — on the Web for all to see.

This title, penned by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli — a long - time interviewer of the iconic Apple founder and the editor of Fast Company, respectively — not only sheds new light on the personal relationships in Jobs» life and his rise to building Apple into a powerhouse empire despite some of its early foibles, it also undoes a number of previously held beliefs about Jobs that have been published in earlier biographies.

But like any good personal financial blogger plagued with the foibles of human emotion, I wanted to get the best price possible.

I mean, ideally I would prefer if they realized I was not trying to hurt their feelings or w / e and that a couple of one - liners gently pointing out one's foibles does not merit the same level of personal offense as their mother being called a prostitute or something.