tragic flaw

It's a tragic flaw in him because of his childhood.

Perhaps the lack of imagination had always been the tragic flaw.

To her, his tragic flaw was simply being too trusting.

Yeah, Tony, and our tragic flaw is adherence to human rights.

It was his tragic flaw, his point of no return.

This, to be blunt, is the tragic flaw of the modern liberal.

I mean hero as in he whose tragic flaws will be his undoing.

As Picard watched, he saw before him a man who was his own tragic flaw.

We must face the unpleasant reality that otherwise good, even great, people may harbor tragic flaws.

And like the gods of Greek tragedy, they have a tragic flaw.

That, Mark, in a nutshell, is probably your tragic flaw.

Now he finds his handiwork threatened by that system's tragic flaw.

Lear, of course, has more than his fair share of tragic flaws.

The hero had to have a tragic flaw, had to drive himself to his fate.

That, though, is not the tragic flaw Lumley means.

It's not a terrible trait, just a tragic flaw.

He's got a tragic flaw to struggle with.

The city's needs and Mulholland's determination together amounted to a tragic flaw.

"The tragic flaw in the Tory approach is that, without work, it won't work."

No public official should be so rigid or inflexible as to turn a blind eye to scientific evidence of tragic flaws in our system.

Often the protagonist of the play has a tragic flaw, a trait which leads to their downfall.

What's the tragic flaw in our hero?

The message: Most fictional tragedies occur because of some kind of tragic flaw.

It could be that fatal flaw is rooted in tragic flaw.