What is "shortcoming"

Usage examples of "shortcoming".

In the case of some early attempts, written when very little source material was available, it is now easy to spot various shortcomings and misinterpretations of what Tolkien really intended.

But Pandan, despite whatever shortcomings or flaws of character he might possess, was no coward like Xangan.

But the Core was aware of the shortcomings of absolute parasitism and knew that the only way it could grow beyond parasite status and parasite psychology was to evolve in response to the physical universe -- that is, to have physical bodies as well as abstract Core personae.

Like all other people, Slava has his shortcomings, but his intellectual origin cannot be taken into account.

To be exhorted and told of his shortcomings, and then furnished with a turkey at Thanksgiving, was a yearly part of his family program.

Like all Russian pistols, what the East Germans call the Pistole M is a crudely designed piece of machinery with a simple blowback system and a butt angle like a letter L, but its Soviet designers gave it a legendary reliability which in tight corners makes up for all other shortcomings.

Kulgan, suddenly aware the magician was not pondering Pugs possible shortcomings but his own.

From the margins of the story, she exposes the shortcomings of male textualization and even forces Havel to a higher level of introspection.

I want to look over your parcel, point out to you its shortcomings and beat your price down.

It was easier for guys like Maloney to blame the turndown on the woman rather than admit to any shortcomings.

INTRODUCTION Now that this book is printed, and about to be given to the world, a sense of its shortcomings both in style and contents, weighs very heavily upon me.

Much as liberals had attacked Chiang Kai-shek and would one day attack the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan for not being Thomas Jefferson clones, Kennedy decided the South Vietnamese premiere, Ngo Dinh Diem, had his shortcomings.

In spite of my follies and my shortcomings, I do believe that God loves and pities me, and will yet perfect that which concerneth me.

There used to be in the gallery of the Luxembourg a picture of Hippolytus and Phxdra, in which the beautiful young man, who had kindled a passion in the heart of his wicked stepmother, always reminded me of Willis, in spite of the shortcomings of the living face as compared with the ideal.

Moreover, in the end, Saddam devised a strategy that took advantage of our own missteps and the shortcomings of our allies to undermine the policy and help speed its demise.