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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

“He used to tell me that every joke has a message. Whatever you’re laughing at, you’re laughing at some foible of yours or somebody else’s. What is learned from laughter is learned well.”

From Washington Post ● Dec. 8, 2022

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

Humility towards those who are called to any honour amongst us is my foible.

From The Law and the Poor by Edward Abbott Parry

“It is infectious to play a character who sees the best in people and isn’t mad at the world for all its foibles and bullies and shadows,” Sudeikis recently told the Hollywood Reporter.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026

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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

The foibles of the Mets are so many and so weird that Mets fans themselves have embraced a term for them: LOLMets.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026

After that, as products of very different backgrounds they were continually scared stiff of hurting each other’s feelings; hence they understood and tolerated their respective foibles almost to the point of obsequiousness.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols