The only thing Pilniak was incapable of taking from his model was Bunin's wonderfully rich and full Russian, a shortcoming which is least likely to be felt in translation.
If all this shortcoming and disappointment cause them lie in the dust, and humble themselves more and more before the Lord, the grace of humiliation is growing, and that is no small advantage, to be growing downward.
The sociologists who have thought seriously about the American type of civilization have practically agreed in the conviction that the shortcoming of the American mind lies in its lack of desire for harmony and unity.
To be sure, until recently we had the same shortcoming in industrial enterprises of the factories.
Is it in theory or in practise where the real shortcoming is to be found?
There is no far-reaching educational failure to admit, nor is there any serious shortcoming from which the educational forces of the country have to redeem themselves.
Should any accident or shortcoming have marred the pleasure of the party, the host would sooner repeat the entertainment than have any slur rest upon his great social venture.
Let nobody dream for a moment that what is wrong with the Censorship is the shortcoming of the gentleman who happens at any moment to be acting as Censor.
Not from any shortcomingon your part, you know: I don't mean that.
The shortcoming which most frequently keeps individuals outside of the family, and keeps them incomplete and imperfect members of the family after they enter it, is the self-sufficiency which is induced by a life of protracted independence.
So he fenced with her sympathetic inquiries, and she, womanlike, began to search for some shortcoming on her own part to account for her lover's gloom.
Squire Bartley had a growing sense of shortcomingin his farming operations.
If you find no shortcoming in them, we shall manage to treat the remainder.
Otherwise he [Melanchthon] knew of no shortcomingor complaint in all the articles.
But thanks to a certain shortcoming in my temperament, I am condemned to remain a decent man--and what is still more painful perhaps: to hear everybody say that I am one.
What must appear as a more serious shortcoming from an American viewpoint is the local nature of the evil attacked, which lessens the universal validity of the work.
I have for some time been aware of a shortcoming in the earlier work, which it is the purpose of these two Concord addresses in some measure to remedy.
That shortcoming was an imperfect appreciation of the goal toward which the process of evolution is tending, and a consequent failure to state adequately how the doctrine of evolution must affect our estimate of Man's place in Nature.
This shortcoming of Marxism is cured by Dietzgen, who made the nature of the mind the special object of his investigations.
Now let the reader apply this shortcoming of language to the distinction between physics and metaphysics, or between thought and reality.
That Drew's family should overlook any little social shortcoming in her and seek to meet her on an equal footing, did not interest her in the least--she wanted to be alone, and for the most part she was.
Her love shielded her from any shortcoming that could possibly lower her.
He was not able to show his full worth, was not able to take all the work from the official bodies, he lacked the rest of the strength he needed and this final shortcoming was the fault of whoever had denied it to him.
His incompetency and shortcoming thereby became known and suspected, and this caused the adherence, confirmation, and edification of many.
They acted not kindly, nor was there any shortcoming in the display of evil.
The command stands in its integrity, that he may be convinced of shortcoming and inability, and so may believe in Christ.
And the command comes out in perfection, and discovers his shortcoming and inability, and therefore he is put to Jesus for strength.
Nor are the companies chargeable with any neglect or shortcoming in not giving their ballet departments the relative importance of ballet in European opera organisations.
It is this lack of love that causes so much shortcomingin prayer.
Let me begin, for the sake of those who have never had their attention directed to the matter, by stating some of the facts that prove how universal is the sense of shortcoming in this respect.
Let each thought of feebleness or shortcoming only make you the more urgent in prayer for others; as the blessing comes to them, you too will be helped.
Any blemish or shortcoming which I discover in myself or other people I immediately publish over half the town in a universal German gazette, as ladies do the witnesses' depositions of evidence concerning strangers.
But this is not a shortcoming in my eyes, dear Leibgeber: on the contrary, it is an excellence.
Their only shortcoming is that they are mainly enjoyed by the possessing classes alone, while they ought to be for the common enjoyment of all.
One shortcoming of this institution is that the assistants frequently are not given the autonomy that is needful in their position, and their pay is not what it ought to be, either.
