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If one had to nail down the central theme of “The Audacity,” aside from pure human foible, it would be the perils posed to privacy by the profitability of data.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026

Jones happily recites the joke using the other word, and the two men laugh, having been caught in a foible of their profession.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2021

This was practically why “Seinfeld” was created; it seems there’s a “Simpsons” reference for just about every human foible.

From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2021

This is not merely an eccentric interpretation of the facts or an interesting foible, nor is it an irrelevant example of anguished post-presidency chatter.

From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2021

Listening to other people was not a foible of his.

From A Knight on Wheels by Hay, Ian

Throughout his career, Neill pitted himself against creatures both real and imagined — or, even more often, somewhere in-between — to reveal humanity’s foibles in the face of the freakish and fantastic.

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026

His new special is filled with jokes about his childhood in New York and as a sharp-tongued Gen Xer commenting on the foibles of both his own generation and those of young adults.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026

The river itself becomes a kind of character, silently and impartially overseeing the foibles of humanity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

Martin Amis, a merciless observer of foibles, puts one writer’s envy of another at the heart of “The Information.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025

I could see liking that: You’d get to know a small group of men, their characters and foibles, and they’d get to know you.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover