At this holiday season, my kids consider it one of my great shortcomings that I am ignorant of how to spin a dreidel.

The great shortcoming of the reform of local government in the 1970s is that the problem of finance was ignored.

This was the great shortcoming of the phaerimm, their inability to work toward a common cause.

While he admired the republican system, Tocqueville found what he considered a great many shortcomings.

The Federation had a great shortcoming, however, that hurt it morally and probably reduced its effectiveness in the long run.

It's been our great shortcoming in the past centuries that we've been unable to recognize that fact.

The one great shortcoming of all these methods was that none could reproduce color.

In the West, one great shortcoming is they have not gotten this training.

The earthquake made people painfully aware of the great shortcomings of the ostensibly powerful state machinery in Turkey.

The great shortcoming throughout the campaign was the utterly inadequate transportation.