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Example sentences for: shortcomings

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Our failings, shortcomings and hesitations, are on display, as are the remarkability of our spirit and energy.
He has made Austin's "shortcomings" the man's strongest suit and the act of showing them off both smashingly funny and--yes--attractive.
Besides, taking potshots at Washington is often good local politics: Blaming a faraway caricature of the United States can deflect attention from shortcomings, or worse, closer to home.
Watching this sequence, I thought of the late David Niven, who, during the 1974 Academy Awards ceremony, saw a streaker charge across the stage and brought the house down with an ad-lib about the fellow "showing off his shortcomings."
These objections conflate complaints about this president's personal shortcomings with the question of how any president should represent the United States abroad.