Word: flaws
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...central, irreducible flaw in Focus is that nothing really happens. The only movement in the play is polemical, and that is more lateral than ascendant. It resembles what was called in grade school parlance a Vegetable Play: "I am a carrot... I am a string bean... I am a cranshaw melon." The characters announce their problems rather than portray them, and then move to renounce them, rather than resolve them. When Toni's friend Nina announces "I have confidence, I'm wild, I'm radiant, I'm magnificent" one wants to grab her and shake her, shouting...
Kissinger must have been too preoccupied and slightly fuddled with the increasingly apparent downslide of his mentor to be able to look seriously at Cyprus from the outset, many analysts are now saying. But if that is so, it represents a fundamental flaw that has now been exposed to the world...
...answer lies in what I consider the major flaw in the film, namely Sontag's almost complete ignorance of the realities of Israeli politics. She doesn't tell us anything because she doesn't really know anything. Her quick montage shots are feeble attempts at providing authenticity through naturalistic detail...
...Watergate debacle has pointed up yet another flaw in our system of Government: with a four-year presidential term, you just don't have enough time to impeach...
...containing, in the Chorus' Prologue, the playwright's own view of the overall import of the sad outcome, which he attributes to evil destiny and the parents' feud. Romeo and Juliet themselves are not tragic figures in the classical sense. It is the parents who exhibit a "tragic flaw," and thus are made to suffer through the needless loss of their children...