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Example sentences for: shortcoming

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This shortcoming became evident following terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City, where firefighters have such a fund that helps members' families in times of need.
It was an "amazingly varied body of work" that was "unified not only by bizarre brilliance but also by its rare ability to disturb" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). His most commonly cited shortcoming is what many critics describe as "coldness," even in his most accomplished films.
Which is, as it turns out, its main shortcoming.
One shortcoming: The plot "veers into melodrama that seems a bit outsize for the scale of events that lead to it" (Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, the New York Times ). (Click here for the Le Divorce page on the Dutton site.)
Surprisingly, only a few groups have previously addressed this shortcoming [ 3, 4, 5].