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How to use foible in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word foible? Here are some examples.

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The obvious absurdity of the comparison between them appears as a strange foible of human nature.
Again footwork is often required to create the correct distance to allow you to parry the foible of the attacking blade.
He parries with his foible when a feint is close but his real defense is his feet.
The principle of defence, being the opposition of forte to foible, is still applicable today.
Insofar as this is a human foible, a mere unsightly blemish on the doctrine of RC, I give it a lot of slack.
Our other great foible was hunting down British metalware imported into Morocco at the turn of the century.
This technique begins at the instant when the foible of the adversary's blade is against the forte of your blade.
The trial developed that administering arsenic and croton oil to old men was by no means the defendant's only foible.
Surely a benign and forgiving God will allow me this foible, this eccentricity.
This application of forte to foible provides the defender with the domination over the attack without using undue physical strength.
And so more and more men are openly admitting their foible for plush toys, too!
You will teach has have a total vision, has foible of as nice activity as useful, that the drawing can etre.
Though many people around the world think of the death penalty as being an American foible, the annual report points out that it has receded into a rump of hardline states.
Equitable's chief financial officer, Charles Bellringer, resigned on November 25th. Unwisely guaranteeing a set level of returns is not merely a European foible.
The full list of London museums includes more than 250 entries and caters to almost every industry, religion, ethnicity, profession, enthusiasm, or foible.
Because the coach is usually standing up and is therefore higher than the pupil, the swordarm should be extended below the shoulder so that the pupil can meet the blade forte to foible in the parry.
There is only the need to state that, because of the cutting action in sabre, it is perhaps more difficult to always apply the principle of opposition of the defending forte to the attacking foible.
The principle of defence is the opposition of the forte of the defending blade to the foible of the attacking blade deflecting the attack clear of the target.
A foible these artistic courses, in the middle of cities and of villages, a Holiday of musical creation takes shape so, an unique event which is lived at the same time by millions of persons across the world.
Examples from Classical Literature
All the greatness of each is kept back and every foible in painful activity, as if the Olympians should meet to exchange snuff-boxes.
You know vanity is not my foible, therefore I need not fear your censure.
Mrs. Vint had pricked his conscience, but she had wounded his foible.
I have a foible for the English in spite of that vilain petit Boulby.
Do you know that you have one little infinitesimal ewe-lamb of a foible?
Omniscience may be a foible of men, but it is not so of books.
But simplicity is not a foible of the religious mind of India.
His foible was omnipotence, and he aped the gods of Greece in turn.
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