Word: flaws
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...adjust to lost world influence. The frustrating impotence of vanished power masquerades as the moral virtue of a troubled conscience. Going off on tangents, staging diversionary incidents, piling on self-indulgent rhetoric: all these would have been enough to spoil the play. But Arden has a much more drastic flaw. He tries to practice consensus drama, a contradiction in terms. For Serjeant Musgrave's Dance to possess any intrinsic vitality, there would have to be a respectable body of thought holding that war is heavenly. As it is, Arden is merely preaching sermons to the converted, and universal agreement...
...crimson novel about the Hollywood prize scramble into a vatful of whitewash. The book described a rat race in which the victors were merely the best of breed. The movie describes a demiparadise besmirched by Stephen Boyd as a vicious nominee ("That rot inside" is his tragic flaw) who forgets that truth and beauty are the Only Real Rewards...
...Pilot" of modern art. He discovered Soutine and, the story has it, once sold a hundred of his paintings in a single batch to the U.S. collector Albert Barnes. But as one of Paris's most successful art dealers, the late Paul Guillaume had one flaw: he would not part with what he loved best. For this the Louvre Museum expressed its heartfelt thanks last week, as it installed 145 paintings from the collection he had founded in its Orangerie pavilion...
...article in the April 1965 issue of Foreign Affairs magazine President Azikiwe, whose party controls the Eastern and Midwestern Regions, alluded to this flaw and suggested the breaking up of the country into small units rather like those in the United States of America. The post of Prime Minister would be abolished and a strong executive President ("I have no personal ambitions," Azikiwe said) would head a powerful central regime...
...Wild Bill. Other physical aspects of the production deserve credit, and certainly the direction can only be hailed as superb. The fault, then, lies in the play itself. Like the little girl, it is often very good and very sharp, and its humor and satire strike home. Its main flaw, perhaps, is that the three central characters really don't amount to much. Time drags on the Desert, even if it is only an hour. And worst of all, the entire conception doesn't quite come off. The wild west notion is certainly a good topic for satire, but when...