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Example sentences for: shortcoming

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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.)
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.
Surprisingly, only a few groups have previously addressed this shortcoming [ 3, 4, 5].
For all the drama of Tripp's appearance at the federal courthouse, since for a change there were no leaks of testimony, the story has one shortcoming that should have thumbnailed it inside next to the corset ads: it produced no news.
Although this book contains much excellent material, it suffers from a most serious shortcoming, probably to be laid at the door of the publisher rather than the authors: it lacks an index of words and phrases (which might have fit neatly into the thirteen blank pages at the end).