root of the trouble
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The root of the trouble lies in the intuition that at bottom he is incapable of thinking about anyone but himself.
From Time Magazine Archive
His columnist colleague on the New York Herald Tribune, Pundit Walter Lippmann, tartly observed that the President's predilection for postponing world political decisions until after the war was the root of the trouble.
From Time Magazine Archive
Intellectuals are apt to consider themselves somewhat more intelligent and sensitive than most people, and in Poe's case, the root of the trouble seems to have been that he was.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Epstein-Barr virus is active in some, but not all, sufferers, and experts doubt it is the root of the trouble.
From Time Magazine Archive
She understood the root of the trouble, and knew that it had been on account of what Baptiste had written and intimated in the letter regarding the Elder.
From The Homesteader A Novel by Micheaux, Oscar
