Word: flaw
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...however, Britain's House of Lords (acting as the country's highest court) discovered a fatal flaw in an Irish arrest warrant. According to an 1851 British law, the warrant required endorsement by an officer of the Royal Irish Constabulary, the British-paid police force that was replaced in 1922 by Ireland's own Garda Siochana (Peace Guard). Because the old constabulary was defunct, the House of Lords ruled that Irish warrants were no longer valid in Britain...
...years ago, Britain helped lash together a sprawl of Asian real estate into a federation called Malaysia. It was born in the high hope of providing economic unity, political stability, and a bulwark against expansion by Red China or Indonesia. But there was a fatal flaw that doomed the scheme from the start. Last week Singapore, fifth largest port in the world, broke away, and once again a British-backed regional federation was in tatters.- The flaw was a clash of peoples, of religions, of languages, of cultures. Put in the simplest terms, the Malays-largely rural, uneducated and unenterprising...
This is what the reader sees at the outset through the author's acute eyes. But abruptly the quality of vision changes; instead of saying, "Look, deep within this character is a flaw," Novelist Frame begins to say, in effect, "how opaque is the soul, how futile to examine its surface." From this point the novel becomes a series of aimless events and objectless soliloquies. Although no one seems insane, the tensions of madness, which have preoccupied the author in her earlier writing, are injected in a mechanical and unconvincing way. Son Alwyn murders an Italian farm laborer...
PRECIOUS STONES AND OTHER CRYSTALS, text by Rudolf Metz. 191 pages. Viking. $25. Dr. Metz, a mineralogist, has assembled the handsomest collection of minerals, precious, semiprecious and just plain beautiful, to be found anywhere outside a museum. The 89 flaw less color plates run the gamut from gold just as prospectors sometimes find it to the canary-yellow Tiffany diamond, 128.51 carats cut into 90 facets and worth $900,000. Dr. Metz's running comment is on the textbookish side, but no matter. With such cool splendors to survey, who wants to read...
...medias res. The pimp he works for calls him "professor," and it vaguely suggested in other places that he once held such a position. Lumet's failure to clarify this point or indeed to provide his audience with a strong picture of Nazemann before his fall constitutes a major flaw of the film...