Of course she understood such a thing: it was her own besetting vice.

But then, Diana, even ministers are human and have their besetting sins just like everybody else.

I dislike boredom, and curiosity has always been one of my besetting sins.

Curiosity about such matters, as perhaps you have guessed, was always one of my besetting sins.

He rang off and went on with his work, while Mary settled down to her besetting sin, the telephone.

She felt keenly the satisfaction of seeing Madeleine charged with her own besetting sins.

It is our besetting national vice to ignore what is happening on the Continent until almost too late.

My besetting sin is imagining too much and forgetting my duties.

But its besetting problem remains that it may overfeed what it seeks to support.

And you lack my besetting sin- foolish pride.

My besetting sin, the way Tsion described it, was pride.

Her besetting problem has been lines around her mouth that give her a puckered look.

His besetting difficulties were enough already.

"That's my besetting sin, you know, pride in healing.

Perhaps he had tired of the game; perhaps under its besetting pressures, invention had failed.

"Females are my besetting sin, I admit it."

"That is my besetting sin," the priest sighed, "overweening pride.

Curiosity was her besetting weakness.

Laziness would be her besetting vice, thought Kronsteen.

His besetting sin is curiosity.

Weapons to use against armor, he guessed, the besetting vice of Frankish tactics: eager to kill, reluctant to die.

(You see, I am not wholly free, after all, from the besetting British vice of prudence.)

(Whimsy was always her besetting weakness, as sentimentality was for Cummings.)

A besetting fear that fast German steamers would be converted into commerce destroyers haunted the British before the war.

My Besetting Sin!

His life as a young man is beset with problems.

But his time on the series was beset by problems.

"When can you think of a time that a guy has been beset with more problems?"

For the past 10 years, the station has been beset by significant money problems.

Like all the best people, he was beset by doubt.

Still, for the first time he was beset with doubt.

You will be beset with failure, but never give up hope.

Construction began in 1987, but the project was beset with problems.

During his short life he was beset by many difficulties.

The house is now beset with drainage problems, he reported.

But the 1994 season has been beset by larger concerns.

He says his black patients and students are similarly beset.

She was beset of a sudden by a great fear.

He was beset by doubts for the first time in his life.

But I tried three, and was beset with frustration at every turn.

However, as the depression hit, the company became beset by Union problems.

What began as a vocational project has been beset by problems.

Its construction stage and early history were beset by many problems.

Certain problems have beset the use of groundwater around the world.

He was beset with financial difficulties for much of his life.

And here the way is not beset with such dangers.

All my life I have been beset by constant fear.

New York's schools are beset by similar problems, though on a far larger scale.

Science and technology are the key to dealing with the major problems that beset human society.

He was beset by health problems in the later years of his reign.