Word: weaknessness
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Benn's story, that of a comfortably aging man pulled into the muck of life by an avid and avaricious young wife, was hilarious when Chaucer included it in The Canterbury Tales, and it still seems none the worse for wear. Bellow's contribution to this hoary tale lies in...
This crisis of faith in old ethical codes has been brewing for a long time; the current scandals serve to illustrate the weakness of the old system, experts on ethics say. "Ethics are so prominent right now because of the wild coincidence of people in pulpit, people in politics and...
His Kremlin schedule leaves him without any free time, Gorbachev said, but his interests are so wide-ranging as to amount to what some might call a "weakness." The list includes physics, mathematics and literature. "To this day, I remember by heart poetry I learned at school," he bragged. Gorbachev...
Such are the scenes of morning in the scandal-scarred spring of 1987. Lamentation is in the air, and clay feet litter the ground. A relentless procession of forlorn faces assaults the nation's moral equanimity, characters linked in the public mind not by any connection between their diverse dubious...
All adulterers are not the same, whatever Dante's lurid punishments by the appropriate circle of hell. A sinner is not only his sin, but many other things. Strength and weakness coexist. People struggle on through complex weather.