Sentences with phrase «worst foibles»

You may be aware that cigarette smoking was not Lewis» only, or even his worst foible.

Not exact matches

Akiva Goldsman, Brian Grazer and I just kinda stuck to our beliefs that if you're detailed enough about a character, and you offer enough dimension, and the person isn't a bad person, that the audience will begin to accept the foibles and even be fascinated by them.

Taking the good for granted and moaning and groaning about the bad is without a doubt, our biggest human foible.

So, for example, even if a superior repeatedly points out to the person that he should ditch the here - and - there words and other forms of legalese (as The Lawyerist's Andy Mergendahl has advised here), or that nominalizations and buried verbs should be reworked into active voice, or that Enclosed please find (PDF) is silly and should be stricken from all correspondence, a month or two later the superior will see these legal - writing foibles in a letter, memorandum, or, worse, a brief filed with a court.