Sentence examples for Lack of aptitude from inspiring English sources

His style has always been that of the backroom politician and he is conscious of his lack of aptitude for the glad-handing aspect.

Above all, however, he could go back and establish whether his original lack of aptitude over fences was temporary or chronic.

He graduated cum laude from the College of the City of New York, where a lack of aptitude for mathematics had influenced him to switch from engineering to the law.

Roberts pointed out that only one in five girls take physics at A-level, not because of lack of aptitude but because it is seen as an unfeminine subject.

But the heart of the piece is the searing disappointment of Bennett's father, a self-taught violinist for whom his son's lack of aptitude on this or any other instrument no number of international hit plays could atone.

In his autobiography The Breaks Are Off, for example, published two years ago at the start of an England one-day international tour of India, he caused a stir with his appraisal of Kevin Pietersen's lack of aptitude for captaincy.

Not a lack of skill, aptitude, application or collective momentum: but of simple heart.

At the same time, I was always forced to make excuses for my lack of physical aptitude.

She figured it would fizzle out because she thought her lack of math aptitude would stop any programming ambitions in their tracks.

I feel sorry for Harvard's president, Lawrence H. Summers, and his unfortunate remark about women's possible lack of inborn aptitude for math and science.

His lack of academic aptitude became a source of joking trivia in the district attorney's office, where he spent 15 years prosecuting criminals.