Thus on one count only could I blame Terri herself for my increasingly deficient friendship.
Years ago, when I had only two children, I visited my Zoloft-deficient sister at her beach house with my three-week-old baby and my four-year-old, "Boots" who actually wore his winter boots to the beach that day.
As I grew more accustomed to my minority-deficient surroundings, I learned that I was not living in a display box inside someone else's world.
For one thing, my Rolodex is deficient in billionaires, and for another, I have a day job -- in which a global campaign to leverage the power of lifestyle as medicine figures prominently.
Readers are much more likely to remember a byline with Teddy, my somewhat gravitas-deficient nickname since birth, than one with my more common legal name, Derek.
I don't like to jam, because I am highly deficient in my scales, but I am able to pick within arpeggios well enough to develop a melody through the selfish nonsense that characterizes most impromptu guitar work.
In recent years, thanks to the work of Times journalists like Andrew Ross Sorkin, the reporting on actual business and finance has improved, but, in my opinion, is still deficient.
"I was rather deficient in my knowledge of French opera," Jellinek said, and when he went on to attribute this deficiency to the Francophobia by which Hungary was gripped between the world wars, I felt yet another stir of childhood memory.
Several essays were much more deficient, in my estimation.
