Sentence examples for Want of imagination from inspiring English sources

The problem is a want of imagination.

'Across the country we have great museums which are withering, not for want of imagination, but for want of resources which can unlock new opportunities,' he said.

But still across the country, we have great regional museums that are performing below their potential, not for want of imagination but for want of resources.

In "Letters on the Study and Use of History" (1752), Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke condemned those who "store their minds with crude unruminated facts and sentences; and hope to supply, by bare memory, the want of imagination and judgment".

She'll look at everything as an outsider as a customer refusing to tolerate problems that have lasted so long I've forgotten they're there, re-considering initiatives we already passed over for want of imagination or energy.

These mental functions, regardless of how they are referred to, have several qualities or modifications, including desire, imagination, doubt, faith, want of faith, memory, forgetfulness, shame, reflection and fear [BSBh 2.3.32] as well as love, aversion, pleasure and pain [BSBh 2.3.29].

I didn't want the lack of imagination to get in our way.

Dr T. G. Powell: A fig leaf or well-placed pinny, one item wanting a bit of imagination (anag. less i).

"It was Seth who wanted the ship of imagination throughout the series, which was so smart," says Druyan.

We want to put the body into the imagination, and we want the imagination to replace the laws of physics.

You want people to have this kind of investment and you want their imaginations to run wild.