(n.) A moral weakness; a failing; a weak point; a frailty.
(n.) The half of a sword blade or foil blade nearest the point; -- opposed to forte.
Example Sentences:
(1) Many of the patients anthropomorphise the seal, enjoy pretending that it is a real, living creature, with all the associated foibles.
(2) This week's edition of the FT's How to Spend It, suggests some Christmas foibles – £625 gloves, £705 Black Amber perfume, a £10,000 Boodles bangle.
(3) We're given a vivid description, details and foibles, before the town is populated with a cast of characters to rival any soap opera.
(4) If the mot juste was always a priority – "I suppose we all have our foibles.
(5) The sharp-witted late-night TV star, who regularly skewers the foibles of other celebrities, found himself on the end of the same treatment after being at the centre of a bizarre blackmail plot over the sexual affairs he had with younger female staff members.
(6) Children and their services have been prey to causes célèbres, fashion and the exaggerated fads and foibles of the media and politicians; they have thrived best when society and their carers were tolerant, and loving, sought good qualities to augment, not evil to exorcise, and succeeded in balancing structure and control with flexibility and freedom to grow.
(7) While cables exposing the foibles of Pakistan's civilian leaders triggered a media feeding frenzy, the press largely ignored revelations that cast the powerful military in a bad light, including its alleged support for Islamist extremist groups such as the Taliban.
(8) This is not about the exposure of one man's alleged foibles.
(9) We tend not to pin that badge on Ukip because of a paradoxical foible of Britishness that makes imagined immunity from aggressive identity politics a point of national pride.
(10) I'm afraid I didn't enjoy either Django Unchained or Inglourious Basterds – they were too self-reverential for my taste – but, as a writer, nobody in the world has a better ear for the foibles and vulnerabilities of his bad guys than Tarantino.
(11) Gray was as funny and vicious about his own haplessness as he was about the foibles of others.
(12) WS: That Bafta routine of yours in the show was the crux for me – a perfect exemplar of your character’s foibles, because the ambiguity is absolute: Does he care about not winning one or not?
(13) By contrast, this collection – which will be available online immediately and in shops in July – celebrated British foibles and eccentricities, in the animal-motif knitwear and eclectic mix of town and country fabrics.
(14) The well done steak is not simply a personal foible, like preferring pepperoni pizza to a margarita.
(15) And, for all his foibles, Mad-Eye Moody from Harry Potter is a man you'd follow, too.
(16) This essay on the last years of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's life exhibits all of Sebald's strengths as a writer – and all of his strange, gnomic, secretive foibles.
(17) For example, I've never heard him acknowledge that, in joking about Georgina Sachs's sexual foibles and menstrual cycle , he was demeaning to her.
(18) Over the years, scrutiny of Westminster has gradually come to rest on personal foibles, grudges and coups both real and imaginary - a kind of higher office-politics.
(19) The emphasis was always on the comedy, the foibles and peccadilloes of the characters, a gentle cynicism about the ways of the world, a joy in puns, a love of irritating footnotes, a relish for the bathetic puncturing of the bombastic – and above all an irrepressible and infectious silliness.
(20) None of us is free of foibles and peculiarities that the patient notices sooner or later.
Forte
Definition:
(a. & adv.) Loudly; strongly; powerfully.
(n.) The strong point; that in which one excels.
(n.) The stronger part of the blade of a sword; the part of half nearest the hilt; -- opposed to foible.
Example Sentences:
(1) In patients who had undergone gastric operations, the efficacy of a parenteral rehabilitation with plasma, human albumin and Aminofusin L forte was determined by assessing the extravascular albumin pool.
(2) In 2009, a US army major shot 13 dead in Fort Hood, Texas .
(3) A new long-acting nitrate, Isomak R (forte), has been shown to be an effective antianginal drug; it increases physical stress tolerance, prevents attacks of angina of effort or angina at rest, significantly decreases pulmonary arterial occlusion pressure, peripheral arterial pressure and total peripheral resistance.
(4) It was shown that six pesticides induced a statistically significant increase in the number of chromosomal aberrations: Bi 58 EC, Metasystox (I) forte, Sadofos 30, Nogos 50 EC, Foschlor 25 and Thiodan 35.
(5) About 250 flights were taken off the Friday morning board at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and Dallas Love Field.
(6) The Bears put together a 74 yard drive capped off by a Matt Forte run to give the Bears a one point lead... rather than "run" as I said earlier.
(7) Experience with 240 midface (Le Fort and zygoma) fractures in multiple trauma patients has emphasized that superior aesthetic results are obtained by immediate extended open reduction with primary bone grafting.
(8) In 12 patients with coronary heart disease and increased left ventricular filling pressure the pressure lowering effect of an oral long-acting nitroglycerin preparation (Sustac-Retard forte) was investigated at rest (n = 6) and during exercise (n = 6).
(9) Also the fat absorption with Creon was superior to that with Pancrex V Forte.
(10) The system involves a description of the highest level of Le Fort fracture on each side, a description of the fragment that carries the maxillary dentition, and a description of accompanying nasoethmoidal or mandibular fractures.
(11) A double-blind randomized study to compare the plasma cortisol values at both 9.00 a.m. and 12 midnight following topical application fo 10 g daily for 7 days of either diflucortolone valerate 0.3% (Nerisone Forte) ointment or clobetasol propionate 0.05% (Dermovate) ointment in 20 hospital inpatients suffering from severe psoriasis, showed that clinically both compounds behaved as potent, highly active topical preparations and caused rapid clinical improvement.
(12) In 2010, while he was based at Fort Worth in Texas, he was arrested after discharging a firearm.
(13) Hylak forte proved to be effective in the therapy of enteritis in infants; the period of excretion of salmonella was significantly reduced.
(14) Fort Hood spokesman Chris Haug said the search continued after teams late Thursday night found the bodies of two soldiers who had been in the vehicle.
(15) Side effects such as nausea, intermenstrual bleedings, and absence of menstruation were most often observed with Femigen forte; about 30% of these users.
(16) Sawyer, William D. (U.S. Army Medical Unit, Fort Detrick, Frederick, Md.
(17) In 1985 the families of 137 passengers killed when a Delta Airlines jet crashed at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport stayed in a secluded hotel while waiting for the victims' bodies to be retrieved and identified.
(18) The skeleton of an adult man, recovered from an eighteenth century French fort site in Indiana, exhibited a series of sharp force wounds.
(19) Le Fort I and sagittal split osteotomies were associated with a mean decrease in MIO of 28%, while Le Fort I and vertical subcondylar osteotomies had a mean decrease of 9%.
(20) Fort McMurray is the hub of Alberta’s oil sands region .