Voorbeelden van foible

• Aware that he possessed a temper and other foibles, he sought to correct his mistakes and bridle his anger.

• Detachment is the ultimate sin and the foible of an earlier generation of researchers.

• It's a community which, for all its foibles, is worthy of our respect.

• But this non-bureaucratic style was itself more than just a personal foible or eccentricity.

• Chopin wore his beard on the right side only-not a foible which anyone but a pianist could conceal.

• The dullest developments, the most perplexed transactions, statistics of overpowering dreariness, were all reduced to a brisk narrative, enlivened by wit, paradox and a sharp eye for human foibles.

• They also looked on with knowing smiles as if wryly aware of the both the foibles of the upper classes and the limitations of their own social striving.

• The foibles and quirks of musicians also shine through the anecdotal snippets of stories, and these sit well alongside the solid professional advice which is on offer here.

• Mosteller was always interested in discussing the foibles of assessment of education.

• I was there a long time; and, with all its foibles and its frailties, it is a good place.

• He knows my own personal dislike for using over-strong adjectives, but that is a mere foible of mine.

• He has a wide knowledge of men and, in this modern age, of women and of their foibles.

• The service gives a superb education, a great self-belief and a good understanding of how to deal with the foibles of others in constricted circumstances.

• The appointment of a medical officer of health or a chief sanitary officer is not the result of any quirk or accident or foible.

• The trouble is that as the years go by the foibles of youth fade, but the tattoo does not.