foible

“He used to tell me that every joke has a message. Whatever you’re laughing at, you’re laughing at some foible of yours or somebody else’s. What is learned from laughter is learned well.”

Mice, it turns out, can’t puke — a little foible that typically makes it difficult to use them to study nausea.

"Never For Ever" ultimately produced three Top 20 singles, including the indelible foible "Babooshka."

“Nathan for You” was zippy, and loath to waste a minute, especially when it could reveal a charming or dumbfounding human foible.

Only once does she talk of their offscreen life together: In the fourth episode, she tells her mother, “Every time I think my marriage has become simple, Simon and I find some new stone to turn over, a new foible that one of us needs the other to tease out and inspect,” she says.