4692 examples of weaknesses in sentences

Pity for the Belgians suffering through Germany's brutal war of aggression does not appear to be one of Dr. Mittelmann's weaknesses.

We are weaker, smaller than menwe have all the weaknesses and diseases they haveand then some of our own.

"I am a man," said he, "though you may not think it, and I have my weaknesses.

We can tolerate certain great defects and weaknesses, but no one ever got reconciled to pride.

The three weaknesses to be overcome are Fear, Indulgence, and Jealousy.

Honest differences of opinion as to the extent of power, arising from different points of view make this inevitable, to say nothing of those weaknesses and faults of human nature which lead men to press the exercise of power to the utmost under the influence of ambition, of impatience with opposition to their designs, of selfish interest and the arrogance of office.

We men are alternately delighted, humiliated, and terrified when women anticipate our wishes, perceive our weaknesses, and detect our shortcomings, whether we be frisky young colts in the field or sober stagers plodding along between the matrimonial shafts in harness and blinkers.

The small weaknesses of celebrities are sometimes amazing.

He has the knack of subtle argument, of twisting facts and preying upon human weaknesses.

But the past, with all its weaknesses and sins, has gone beyond recall; and I must try to write a better record on the present.

Fear of personal danger was not one of the king's weaknesses.

But this difficulty is one of the most serious weaknesses of large undertakings; precise detailed measurement is the great prophylactic of business efficiency, and, where it is lacking the bacilli of waste will enter in and multiply.

He is a fellow commonly guilty of some weaknesses, which he might conceal if he were careless:now his over-diligence to hide them makes men pry the more.

It arrests priests, stops newspapers, wishes to incorporate us, in spite of ourselves, in the National Guard; robs usso we are told; lies inveteratelythat is incontestable, and altogether makes itself a great bore; but what does that matter?human nature is full of weaknesses, and prefers to be bored than bombarded.

When we are overcome by such soft Insinuations and ensnaring Compliances, we gladly recompense the Artifices that are made use of to blind our Reason, and which triumph over the Weaknesses of our Temper and Inclinations.

Every one has his Flaws and Weaknesses; nay, the greatest Blemishes are often found in the most shining Characters; but what an absurd Thing is it to pass over all the valuable Parts of a Man, and fix our Attention on his Infirmities to observe his Imperfections more than his Virtues; and to make use of him for the Sport of others, rather than for our own Improvement?

It is not innate love and goodness that make us social, but our passions and weaknesses (above all, fear); man is by nature self-seeking.

" "So even the greatest men have their weaknesses," Juliet moralised; "but I wish I had known Dr. Thorndyke's sooner, for Mr. Hornby had a large box of Trichinopoly cheroots given to him, and I believe they were exceptionally fine ones.

With the keen eye for the weaknesses of his fellow-worshippers which always characterized him, Martineau said, 'The Unitarian takes with him [to the study of the Bible] the persuasion that nothing can be scriptural which is not rational and universal.'

er me, Mis' 'Livy, but you're ove'ly ole ter be havin' yo' fus' baby, an' you'll need somebody roun', honey, w'at knows all 'bout de fam'ly, an' deir ways an' deir weaknesses, an' I don' know who dat'd be ef it wa'n't me.' "''Deed, Mammy Jane,' says she, 'dere ain' nobody e'se I'd have but you.

" "It cannot be altogether that, Miles," Lucy added, in an appealing, but touchingly confidential manner, "you and I have known each other from children, and, whatever may be the weaknesses of one who is so dear to me, and who, I hope, has not altogether lost his hold on your own affections, we can still rely on each other.

It was the weaknesses of Germany that made this war, and not her strength.

The weaknesses of Germany are her Imperialism, her Junkerism, and her intense, sentimental Nationalism; for the former would have no German ascendancy that was not achieved by force, and, with the latter, made the idea of German ascendancy intolerable to all mankind.

Let us consider its weaknesses at the present time, let us ask what changes in its circumstances are desirable in the public interest, and what are likely to come about.

Waugh, who had risen from the ranks, Howells, who had begun as shipping clerk, despised those above whom they had risen, regarded as the peculiar weaknesses of the working classes such universal failings as prejudice, short-sightedness, and shirking.

4692 examples of  weaknesses  in sentences