Sentence examples for a lack of worthwhile from inspiring English sources

But this, he says, has little to do with Islam and Islamism, and everything to do with discrimination, harsh policing and a lack of worthwhile jobs.

Ligon has to drive her 12-year-old car wherever she goes, both for safety and due to Detroit's lack of worthwhile public transit.

Mr. Pelecanos also treads a thin line between cogent argument and oversimplification when he ascribes the woes of young men in "Soul Circus" to the lack of worthwhile father figures -- and lets Derek try to pick up that slack.

Critics had long deplored the lack of worthwhile modern English drama, and toward the end of the century William Archer was one of many writers who called for an equivalent of the Théâtre-Libre that would bring the "theatre of ideas" to England.

We can comment on the half-baked BlackBerry PlayBook and the lack of worthwhile apps.

Today, the lack of worthwhile programming — not looking for new and better ways to broadcast the existing programming — is the problem.

But far more important than the visual whiff is the by-the-numbers screenplay is the lack of worthwhile characterization or even clever dialogue.

There is just a lack of understanding that to be authentic, to be worthwhile, and to be personally rewarding, individualism has to serve a higher cause than the self.

"Let's just say that I found such a lack of enthusiasm for restoration of lost patents that I did not deem it worthwhile to pursue.

A lack of entrepreneurship.

First, a lack of competition.