Sentences with phrase «personal peccadilloes»

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.

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

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.

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