Word: flaws
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DEFENSE AGAINST THE DARK-ARTS TEACHER: Remus Lupin, a sympathetic and skillful wizard with a magic--er, tragic flaw...
...Dogs of Babel is a neatly, almost perfectly constructed novel, but its flawlessness is also its biggest flaw. It's too pretty: it lacks the messiness of reality, and as a result it feels smaller than life, like a nifty short story spun out to feature length, a tragedy staged in a shoebox. It's the difference between cute and beautiful. What The Dogs of Babel lacks is the raw, sobbing rage that powered The Lovely Bones, that left it with ragged edges, that made it howl and that made it great--and that left readers, reviewers and editors alike...
...some of you have realized that this parting shot itself presents a lesson of sorts: that there are few lessons to be taken from Harvard in any broad sense. Some of the more intellectually-playful types among you will undoubtedly see a contradiction in this, and announce the fatal flaw in this article with a typical “I’m-the-smart-guy-in-section” flourish...
...speaking his mind, I welcome his desire to invigorate the sciences, and I think he is a dynamic leader who effects change. My worry is that Summers is overly concerned with Harvard’s role in society as a research institution, which leads him to the deeper flaw of failing to appreciate the importance of the humanities...
...plant is now a model of Detroit lean and mean. Its vehicles rate second, to Lexus, in initial quality. Suppliers deliver components every four hours (vs. every two weeks at some GM plants), and management lets workers freeze the lines if they notice a component or assembly flaw...