Sentences with phrase «with foibles»

That's why people form teams; colleague teams that are fraught with foibles, loyalty issues and who owns what, exactly.

It seems like the system is fraught with foibles.

Personally, I really like the larger face size and overall look, but many more won't put up with the foibles of the Q Founder just because it looks nice.

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

It would certain help some institutional investors with their foibles.

But with those foibles set to one side, we've revelled in the entertainment experience on the Nexus 7.

Berg's book took me into the office of Perkins and sat me down at his desk and let me pretend to also be a big - time New York editor faced with the foibles, foolishnesses and insecurities of even the best writers in the world.

'» [58] This kind of lesson often takes the form of hero worship, with larger - than - life characters — or real historical figures presented with their foibles airbrushed away — held up to students to encourage imitation of their actions.

The director just about pulls off this delicate balancing act, although he occasionally risks having a bit too much comic fun with the foibles of the film industry.

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

So overall, not a great movie but when it comes to SyFy Lake Placid: The Final Chapter even with its foibles is one of their better overall movies.

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

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.

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.

During the period when a college simply functioned as a gathering of the church, with its foibles and deficiencies as well as its advantages and virtues, its Christian identity seemed not to require affirmation or reflection.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

(The Native participant had no foibles about wearing his tradition's garb and brandishing his tradition's symbols, replete with white eagle feather, which he presented to Olivia.)

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.

Each week the community changes, bringing different people with different attributes, foibles, likes and opinions.

So great, the Teller and his mate are free but we don't really have a sense of them as «persons» — motivations, history, foibles, loves — like we usually do with our Who monsters.

The heroes of Hebrew story walk before us not as painted figures of imagined perfection; their biographers reveal with ruthless candor their foibles aud selfishness.

We can see the author smiling behind his pen at the countryman's foibles: the exquisite vizier of all Egypt casting envious eyes on those mangy, ragged creatures, worn with three grueling journeys through the desert!

As long as we live with human beings, we will always have to deal with all those annoying little human foibles we all carry around with us.

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.

But it is the period from the 1870s when the first «descriptive writers» like Henry Lucy began to convey the tone and feeling of debates and comment on the personalities and foibles of MPs that we see the origins of the parliamentary sketchwriter as compared with the political reporter.

But according to Martin Sheen, who played the president, the character was drawn largely from Bill Clinton: «He's bright, astute and filled with all the negative foibles that make him very human,» Sheen once told the Radio Times.

But, the effect of the Ensign and Sanford stories is to draw national attention to the foibles of a party already struggling with its own identity.

It's quite a test for our young republic as we grapple with a much closer up view of human foibles than was ever available before, thanks to social media and the ever powerful electronic communicative forces that have shrunk the news cycles to minutes and have allowed for, and disposed of surprises, instantly.

Even when you think you've considered every condition that a piece of software will encounter, the rebellious nature of reality (including the foibles of human users) will come up with something to violate your assumptions.

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.

If all women are empathisers, and men are systemisers (excuse the generalisations here) what hope can there be, except to accept each other with all our foibles and try to manage as best we can, which is what men and women have been doing for centuries.

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.

I love buying them, playing with them, learning their foibles and working within and around their limitations.

(This time nothing to do with 48 fps, and everything to do with storytelling foibles and concerns):

And Larry (Kevin Spacey) is a bundle of energy who likes to drink, smoke, and start arguments; he's openly confrontational with Phil and Bob and quick to pick up on their foibles and failings.

Atkinson himself attributes his character's popularity to the fact that the socially awkward, middle - aged Bean's mundane adventures, largely due to his clumsy inability to cope with even the smallest of life's foibles, mirror the feelings and experiences of people the world over.

Denis films the men around Isabelle with the same tenderness that she affords her heroine — though this doesn't blind her to their myriad foibles and failings, any more than she is tempted to make a martyr of the self - pitying, often oblivious Isabelle.

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.

Even with the odd little foible, inconsistency or instance of male gaze, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is already easy to recommend as some of the best that the series has to offer.

Although this sounds convoluted, Married Life manages to introduce its characters and their foibles with dexterity.

The British film was made with the cooperation of both parties and their three (now - grown) children, yet it doesn't gloss over its subjects» flaws or foibles.

Paloma carries an old video camera and films the world of her family and the other inhabitants of their wealthy apartment building with a critical eye, narrating their foibles with a sharp tongue.

l loved the way the director moved between each character showing their foibles and lies and sense of self destruction.The 13 year old is the star of this film with her sad, cold desperation but allied to a very sharp intelligence..

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.

Even when reaching for the operatic, he keeps the focus on small human foibles: a cellphone going off at a funeral; a car parked who knows where; a teenager (Lucas Hedges, in what should be a star - making breakout turn) whose mourning process is no more preoccupying than his desperate attempts to get some alone time with his girlfriend.

And the film's climax, with an array of staggering mascot performances, ups the bar on Guest's physical humor and makes this a worthy addition to his catalog of mild - mannered but wicked explorations of the foibles and flaws that define us all.