For Democrats, Republicans had grossly overreacted to a personal foible.
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Trump's cloddish behavior shouldn't be seen as just a personal foible.
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His work leads him to blame an older foible: human bias.
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Other than that one foible, there's no downside to making the switch.
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It's not just a personal foible, and acknowledging it isn't an ad hominem attack.
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Now, he is hoping that ignorance can be the Knicks' weapon against their newest foible.
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Biden as foible-y front-runner: Eight days ago, Biden was fighting for his political life.
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The Jewell case is a picture-perfect example of a most pernicious investigation foible: confirmation bias.
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An interesting foible of the internet: most online creation platforms can easily be manipulated toward unexpected ends.
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Others compared Santos's bastardization of Ronaldo as the sports version of the now-infamous Beast Jesus foible.
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If he must account for any foible, it's his single-minded determination and pure love of the sport.
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Butlers are supposed to have a deep knowledge of their employers' every foible, traditionally recorded in a book.
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Such uncertainties may explain why boards often miss the moment when a founder's comportment goes from a foible to a liability.
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Season 2 didn't put much effort into making Max a three-dimensional character so much as a foible to the absent Eleven.
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A couple of people who knew just a bit about the band were amused, as if I had admitted an embarrassing foible.
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But consensus is already clear that Hudson Yards is a bust, even for the curious tourists who have come to gawk at Manhattan's latest foible.
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The other small foible, and it's a highly unusual one for Beats headphones, is that the Powerbeats Pro have a lot of treble energy in their tuning.
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As good, and big, as the display is, the laptop is still hamstrung by the greatest foible of 15-inch laptops: the size of the damn thing.
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A much more frequent foible in the writing of inexperienced students, is the habit of putting a comma between a long subject and a predicate (as here).
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For sellers, facing up to that reality, especially when there is an obvious foible to their property, can mean the difference between a quick sale and listing limbo.
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NASHVILLE — Willie Nelson's famous habit of smoking marijuana is not seen as a badge of outlaw courage here anymore, so much as the frivolous foible of an eccentric uncle.
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It is time for journalists to start doing their jobs and stop the ugly "gotcha" coverage of every foible of the man our country elected and we call Mr. President.
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Williams recounted his reaction to the foible thusly in an ESPN radio appearance Monday morning: "I said, 'He's Michael Jordan, anything he dadgum wants to say is OK with me,'" Sounds about right, really.
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DEBORAH, ATLANTA In fairness, a foible observed across a dinner table once or twice a month is of a different species entirely than one shoved in our face several times a day by an offending spouse.
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The second problem with protected areas is the result of a peculiar foible of the human mind: Politicians, like the rest of us, are suckers for numeric targets like the ones in the Convention on Biological Diversity.
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What may be remembered as the most notable foible capping the decade of growth stocks, however, was the parent company of WeWork, which has been attracting billions of dollars in private equity to open up coworking spaces across the country.
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It was also the first game back home for the Cavaliers' J. R. Smith since his well-publicized foible in Game 1, when he got the score wrong in the closing seconds of regulation and ran the wrong way with the ball.
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As you can see in the video above, it takes me about sixteen seconds to go through the motions of remembering Swype's sole foible, switching keyboards, switching to emoji, going to the correct tab, and finally—at long last—locating my beloved upside down emoji.
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Yet, while those models rely on flashes of insight, ranging from the modest to the dramatic, the pleasure of Sigler's approach is its scarcity of enlightening moments, as its narrator stumbles from foible to frustration to minor victory, such as getting a stranger to smile.
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Humor almost always found a place in his plays, sometimes expressed in vaudeville style, but behind the laughter lay shrewd, often acerbic, sometimes discomforting observations: of the family, of marriage, of human foible, of Britain's colonial past, and of the state of Britain itself.
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The cycle is born of the infeasibility of conservative goals, especially the American right's attempt to reverse the growth of the welfare and administrative state (which even the world's most right-wing parties accept) and its tendency to start unwinnable culture wars against inevitable change (a typical conservative foible).
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I thought the debt ceiling and hurricane relief was masterful, getting that done the way it did because we've created this kind of foible within our system where the government votes for a budget and then at the same time they don't vote to authorize borrowing the money to support that budget, they make that a separate vote.
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A Word With After 60 years in the movie business — five of them, from 153 to 1982, as the top box-office star in America — Burt Reynolds might appear to be an open book, his every feat, foible, affair and chest hair chronicled so vividly that almost nothing about him could surprise you the way that naked Cosmopolitan centerfold did in 1972.
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Up until the first world war, the world was run by a collection of dynasties that possessed every human foible imaginable (from insanity to dwarfism to incestuous longings) and who spent their lives playing the game of thrones: forming dynastic alliances, sometimes even marrying their relatives, going to war over rival family claims to the throne and, above all, scheming to maximise their power.
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Do you know that you have one little infinitesimal ewe-lamb of a foible?
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By Act 5, Lady Wishfort has found out the plot, and Fainall has had Waitwell arrested. Mrs. Fainall tells Foible that her previous affair with Mirabell is now public knowledge. Lady Wishfort appears with Mrs. Marwood, whom she thanks for unveiling the plot.
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Another character, Fainall, is having a secret affair with Mrs. Marwood, a friend of Fainall's wife. Mrs. Fainall, who is Lady Wishfort's daughter, herself once had an affair with Mirabell and remains his friend. In the meantime, Mirabell's servant Waitwell is married to Foible, Lady Wishfort's servant.
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His biographer would admit that "his greatest foible, was a most irregular passion for the fairer sex". Some, however, have suggested that his relationship with brothel keepers may have allowed him to control the trade – although, if true, this association would also have given the madams some hold over him. Again, no documented evidence in known to support these claims.
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Silverman, 234–235 Willis also introduced Poe to Fanny Osgood; the two would later carry out a very public literary flirtation.Meyers, 174 Willis's wife Mary Stace died in childbirth on March 25, 1845. Their daughter, Blanche, died as well and Willis wrote in his notebook that she was "an angel without fault or foible".Beers, 276 He took his surviving daughter Imogen to England to visit her mother's family.
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Dick had not taken the filming seriously but gladly accepted the windfall. He was a teetotaler in an age when the "hard-drinking" "fun-loving" aerial adventurer was seen as the norm. Considered very easy- going yet serious, his one foible, however, was that he was an inveterate gambler throughout his life. Merrill blew his entire salary from the film at Santa Anita the weekend after shooting wrapped.Cooper. Ralph.
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Sultan Al-Ghuri (Raad Rawi) came to power following the untimely death of his brother, the previous Sultan. Having taken his brother's first wife Shajar as his own, he dotes on her son, his nephew Madu. Al-Ghuri's other foible is his love of perfume. Yet he wears the burden of office heavily, obsessively aware of the ever-present threat of assassination and of the fragility of the dynastic line.
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Shearer depicted both spiritual visions and human foible in her works, which were predominantly solo concerts. She created "In a Vacuum" in 1941 and "Let the Heavens Open That the Earth May Shine" in 1947. She created "Once Upon a Time" in 1951 which was a suite of solos for fantastically named characters. Shearer choreographed group works, among them "Fables and Proverbs" (1961) and "The Reflection in the Puddle Is Mine" (1963).
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Act 1 is set in a chocolate house where Mirabell and Fainall have just finished playing cards. A footman comes and tells Mirabell that Waitwell (Mirabell's male servant) and Foible (Lady Wishfort's female servant) were married that morning. Mirabell tells Fainall about his love of Millamant and is encouraged to marry her. Witwoud and Petulant appear and Mirabell is informed that should Lady Wishfort marry, he will lose £6000 of Millamant's inheritance.
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Sir Rowland is, however, Waitwell in disguise, and the plan is to entangle Lady Wishfort in a marriage which cannot go ahead, because it would be bigamy, not to mention a social disgrace (Waitwell is only a serving man, Lady Wishfort an aristocrat). Mirabell will offer to help her out of the embarrassing situation if she consents to his marriage. Later, Mrs. Fainall discusses this plan with Foible, but this is overheard by Mrs. Marwood.
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In fencing, forte (from the Romance root meaning "strong") is "the strong part" of the blade—the one third-closest to the hilt. The "strength" refers to the control established over the opponent's weapon upon contact of one's forte with the opponent's foible (a situation of favourable leverage). Fencer Ridolfo Capo Ferro defined the forte as the blade from the hilt to the middle. From the middle to the top is known as the debole.
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Fibber McGee and Molly with Ted Weems and his Orchestra broadcasting from Chicago in 1937. If Smackout proved the Jordan-Quinn union's viability, their next creation proved their most enduring. Amplifying Luke Grey's tall talesmanship to Midwestern braggadocio, Quinn developed Fibber McGee and Molly with Jim as the foible-prone Fibber and Marian playing his patient, common sense, honey-natured wife. In its earliest incarnation, Fibber McGee and Molly put focus on Fibber's tall tales and extended monologues.
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Cadwallader in the 'Author,' Floretta in the 'Quaker,' and Foible in the 'Way of the World.' Viletta in She Would and She Would Not, Fatima in 'Cymon,' Lucetta in 'Two Gentleman of Verona,' and Mrs. Haughty in 'Epicœne,' were given during the next season, in which she was on 8 Nov the first Corisca in the 'Magic Picture,' altered from Massinger; Miss Juvenile in Mrs. Cowley's 'More Ways Than One' (6 Dec.); and 17 April 1784, Annette in 'Robin Hood.
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It is with such materials that much of the importance of the epistle for our understanding of early Christianity and its late-Jewish heritage rests."Robert A. Kraft, The Apostolic Fathers, vol. 3: Barnabas and the Didache The author's style was not a personal foible: in his time it was accepted procedure in general use, although no longer in favour today. Andrew Louth says: "Barnabas seems strange to modern ears: allegory is out of fashion and there is little else in the epistle.
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Born February 1, 1894 at Iuka, Mississippi, "Dick" Merrill was born into a family that prided itself as being descended from the famous frontier pioneer, Daniel Boone. Although his full name was Henry Tyndall, the name "Dick" was a childhood moniker that stuck with him for life. Brought up as a devout Catholic, he was a teetotaler in an age when the "hard-drinking" "fun- loving" aerial adventurer was seen as the norm. Considered very easy-going yet serious, his one foible, however, was that he was an inveterate gambler throughout his life.Cooper. Ralph.
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It tends to point out "an irritating foible about modern society" including celebration days or famous mythical figures. Additionally, there are references to several historical figures with a few characters from the story being based on them. Besides the series' comedy, the aliens' invasion of Japan brings several social issues between them and the humans with the most recurring one being the lack of social equality. As a result, one of the main themes involves society trying to preserve their own way of living rather than fulfilling a dream like in other shōnen series.
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Bishop Fraser's opponents said of him that, "Omnipresence was his forte, and omniscience his foible", reflecting his restless activity in preaching the gospel, reform and activity in civil society. He was a common sight on the streets of Manchester, hurrying to address workers of all kinds several times a day. He was a vocal opponent of Charles Darwin’s ideas and in an address of 1871 said that they were, “merely guesses, conjectures, and inferences resting upon remote analogies”.Bishop Fraser on faith and Darwinism, Preston Chronicle 29 April 1871, page 2.
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Millamant appears in the park and, angry about the previous night (when Mirabell was confronted by Lady Wishfort), she tells Mirabell of her displeasure in his plan, which she only has a vague idea about. After she leaves, the newly wed servants appear and Mirabell reminds them of their roles in the plan. Acts 3, 4 and 5 are all set in the home of Lady Wishfort. We are introduced to Lady Wishfort who is encouraged by Foible to marry the supposed Sir Rowland – Mirabell's supposed uncle – so that Mirabell will lose his inheritance.
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In the creation and criticism of fictional works, a character flaw or heroic flaw is a bias, limitation, imperfection, problem, personality disorders, vices, phobia, prejudice, or deficiency present in a character who may be otherwise very functional. The flaw can be a problem that directly affects the character's actions and abilities, such as a violent temper. Alternatively, it can be a simple foible or personality defect, which affects the character's motives and social interactions, but little else. Flaws can add complexity, depth and humanity to the characters in a narrative.
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This, Platoff argues, "draws comedy from human foible rather than mechanized display of patter declamation", suggesting that Leporello is telling us as much about himself as he is about Giovanni. Leporello's aria contains no epigram—the Andante section takes its place. C. Headington, R. Westbroook, and T. Barfoot in Opera: A History (1987) say that "Ho viaggiato in Francia, in Spagna" "must surely be ranked as the forerunner of Leporello's... aria", but they seem to have gone to the next most familiar piece of music rather than digging into research. Platoff notes that catalogue arias were a particular specialty of Bertati.
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The small sword is considered to be a descendant of the "transitional rapier", which itself evolved from the rapier due to the demand for a lighter sword, easier to wear. The shape of a colichemarde blade features a wide forte, which abruptly tapers to a much narrower form at a point varying between a fifth to a third of the blade length from the hilt. The blade cross section was most often triangular and hollow-ground. This configuration combines good parrying characteristics, due to the wide blade forte, with the good maneuverability and thrusting characteristics imparted by the narrow blade foible.
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Maurice Healy praised O'Connor as "the greatest gentleman at the Irish Bar" and an extremely popular judge, even if he did not fully live up to expectations.Healy, Maurice, The Old Munster Circuit, 1939 Mercier Press reissue, pp. 269–70 O'Connor was modest about his own abilities, noting in Egan that if he differed from colleagues with more experience of criminal law, it was not because he thought himself in any way superior to them. His main personal foible is said by Healy to have been his pride in belonging to the Clan O'Connor and a tendency to bore listeners with its history.
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The Renaissance humanist scholar Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam may have coined the word. A mumpsimus () is a "traditional custom obstinately adhered to however unreasonable it may be", or "someone who obstinately clings to an error, bad habit or prejudice, even after the foible has been exposed and the person humiliated; also, any error, bad habit, or prejudice clung to in this fashion". Thus it may describe behaviour or the person who behaves thus. For example, all intensive purposes is a common eggcorn of the fixed expression all intents and purposes; if a person continues to say the eggcorn even after being made aware of the correct form, either the speaker or the phrase may be called a mumpsimus.
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Updike remarked in an interview collected by the Poetry Foundation that "I began as a writer of light verse, and have tried to carry over into my serious or lyric verse something of the strictness and liveliness of the lesser form."John Updike: The Poetry Foundation, archive The poet Thomas M. Disch noted that because Updike was such a well-known novelist, his poetry "could be mistaken as a hobby or a foible"; Disch saw Updike's light verse instead as a poetry of "epigrammatical lucidity."Poets.org: John Updike His poetry has been praised for its engagement with "a variety of forms and topics," its "wit and precision," and for its depiction of topics familiar to American readers.
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That evening, Heitor finds that Penélope has stolen a small memento of every wedding she's been to, including the wedding photograph of his own mother. Heitor is shocked, but says that his love for Penélope is strong enough that he can live with his foible of hers, and that he hasn't taken an antidepressant since he met her. The next morning, Alice wakes up to find that Fernando put her in his bed to sleep it off while he slept on the couch. Alice presents Fernando with a business card with his name on it, welcoming him into the wedding-shooting business, calling it a family, and Heitor gives Penélope a business card with her name on it.
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His temperament as a hipster also reflected Kubrick's likes and dislikes in everyday society. Among those, writes Herr, were his aversions to "waste, haste, ... [and] bullshit in all its proliferating manifestations, subtle and gross, from the flabby political face telling lies on TV to the most private, much more devastating lies we tell ourselves." According to Herr, Kubrick felt that "hypocrisy was not some petty human foible, it was the corrupted essence of our predicament ..." After he moved to England, Kubrick especially enjoyed watching his favorite TV shows, including The Simpsons, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Seinfeld, and Roseanne, thinking they were excellent comedies that portrayed American life. He had friends in the U.S. send him tapes of television shows, along with sports events and news broadcasts.
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Foils have standardized, tapered, rectangular blades in length and cross-section that are made of tempered and annealed, low-carbon steel—or maraging steel as required for international competitions To prevent the blade from breaking or causing harm to an opponent, the blade is made to bend upon impact with its target. The maximum length of the blade must be 90 cm, The length of the assembled weapon at maximum is 110 cm, and the maximum weight must be less than 500g; however, most competition foils are lighter, closer to 350g. The blade of a foil has two sections: the forte (strong) which is the one third of the blade near the guard, and the foible (weak) which is the two thirds of the blade near the tip. There is a part of the blade contained within the grip called a tang.
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