foible

Example Sentences

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This image, of a young woman with dreams, goals and a few foibles, is what historian William J. Mann sketches in his sensitive new book, “Black Dahlia: Murder, Monsters, and Madness in Midcentury Hollywood.”

From Los Angeles Times

They focused instead on human experience as it unfolds, moment by uncertain moment, capturing everyday foibles, errors and foolishness in the face of quotidian ruthlessness.

From Los Angeles Times

But the tone is often more satiric than somber, Park highlighting Man-su’s foibles and insecurities.

From Los Angeles Times

But the film itself is far from your average rom-com, more interested in the mechanics and machinations of modern dating than its lovable foibles.

From Salon

Martin Amis, a merciless observer of foibles, puts one writer’s envy of another at the heart of “The Information.”

From The Wall Street Journal