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Перевод: foible

[существительное]
слабость ; слабая струнка; недостаток ; причуда ; слабая часть клинка; гибкая часть клинка

Тезаурус:

1. My explanations of this foible have become increasingly baroque of late: I find myself announcing everything from a rare eye disease to undying homage to the early Auden.
2. Mosley in his autobiography made only one reference to Joyce, his sometime Chief of Propaganda, as a deserter and as one who was "intensely vain; a quite common foible in very small men."
3. Attempts to provoke adverse judgements on canonical works tend to be resented as "finding fault with" or "picking holes in" these works of established merit, the result of a tiresome foible on the part of the teacher, and leading to disorientation if persisted in.
4. Is it Robin Culley, newly sensitive, newly observant of human foible?
5. I say a foible that any man is entitled to."
6. The chansons, mostly published between 1564 and 1576, vary in style from the mostly note-against-note of "Margot labourez" and the setting of Ronsard's "Bon jour, mon coeur" to the graceful polyphony of "Le rossignol", l from three such different scherzi as "Fuyons tous d'amour", "Quand mon mary", and "Sauter, danser" to the grave du Bellay settings "O foible esprit", a pure madrigal, and "La nuict froide et sombre".
7. This latter is possibly a misplaced human foible.
8. What do two foils make - a foible?
9. The Reverend Theodorus, anxious about the spell this demon artist might be casting on his younger son, wrote mildly to Theo advising him "not to let yourself be influenced into doing things which are not practical, for alas, that certainly is his foible."
10. "Stands with Thackeray's Vanity Fair as an exploration of human foible, with Eliot's Middlemarch as a story of courtship and Tolstoy's War and Peace as a commentary on the fate of nations," gushed the publicity material.
11. The myth of a woman taking the blame to protect the male foible should not be perpetuated.
12. I am assuming that this identity business is a foible of John's, of Tod's, of Hamilton's, and not universal.