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Example sentences for: shortcomings

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I think I have dwelt on such shortcomings enough.
To quote Woodward: "Granting that 'the wishes of democracy are capricious, its instruments rude, its laws imperfect,' granting as well an appalling list of shortcomings that he abhorred--minds 'so petty, so insipid, so crowded with paltry interests'--Tocqueville still regarded democracy 'not as the best, but as the only means of preserving freedom.
Siegel clearly wrote this book out of a frustration, which I share, with a general failure to face up to the shortcomings of the policies of the 1960s.
Our failings, shortcomings and hesitations, are on display, as are the remarkability of our spirit and energy.
If you apologize for your nonexistent shortcomings, you harvest sympathy and blind folks to your genuine shortcomings.