Yeltsin, for all his obvious failings, felt himself to be a president.

Still, despite such obvious failings, "Lie to Me" holds the reader's attention, to say the very least.

There's nothing more obnoxious than someone calling attention to our obvious failings.

In recent months, the Legislature and state judicial officials have been scrambling to fix some of the courts' more obvious failings.

Despite the obvious failings of the show, Mark constantly brags about his high income.

He had always been--despite his other obvious failings--a man of his word.

Mlen Monkeyshine, in an eff-ort to understand, pointed out his mothers obvious mental failings, they spoke evasively of "wounds- or "injuries.

This film could use a skeptic, though it's eventually to be commended for refraining from bashing Brando too hard for his obvious personal failings.

Despite his obvious failings.

One of the obvious failings of the current proposals, in my view, was the almost complete lack of any reference to developing democratic citizenship.