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  • He sang Lord Robert to sleep every night, and tweaked the noses of Lady Lysa's suitors with verses that made mock of their foibles.†  (source)
  • When they signed up with Hall's expedition, none of them had known that a reporter would be in their midst-scribbling constantly, quietly recording their words and deeds in order to share their foibles with a potentially unsympathetic Public.†  (source)
  • He had gathered and stacked all manner of foibles, devices, playthings of his egotism and now, between all the silly corridors of books, the toys of his life swayed.†  (source)
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  • The assertion of racial beauty was not a reaction to the self-mocking, humorous critique of cultural/racial foibles common in all groups, but against the damaging internalization of assumptions of immutable inferiority originating in an outside gaze.†  (source)
    foibles = peculiar behavioral traits in an individual -- perhaps weaknesses, but never important
  • I would read the inscriptions on walls, and carved into floors, a special foible of rich Anglicans who thought they'd get more points with God by being engraved.†  (source)
  • She worked with too many therapists, saw that they were human, full of foibles, in need of help themselves.†  (source)
  • So she headed toward Cop Central, rested, well fed, and in her newly repaired vehicle, which in under five blocks decided to surprise her with a new foible.†  (source)
  • THE ZIATYS' STORY, as well as any, shows the extent to which modern refugees can trace their displacement to the mistakes, greed, fears, crimes, and foibles of men who long preceded them, sometimes by decades—or longer.†  (source)
  • Often, almost daily, since I had known Sebastian, some chance word in his conversation had reminded me that he was a Catholic, but I took it as a foible, like his teddy-bear.†  (source)
  • Most Loonies ignored them and granted them their foibles.†  (source)
  • Everybody knew of Gawaine's foible.†  (source)
  • Young Anne Bingham, who was married to the immensely wealthy William Bingham, was, Abigail agreed, "very handsome," but "rather too much given to the foibles" of France.†  (source)
  • But that foible his father had of increasing his age to magnify his guilt had long ago become familiar to him.†  (source)
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