Sentence examples for defectiveness from inspiring English sources

When I look at photographs of my 22-year-old self, so convinced of her own defectiveness, I see a perfectly normal girl and I think about aliens.

"I want to eat healthful, nourishing food like Gisele" on the other hand, achieves the same end without bolstering a sense of your own defectiveness.

Among the works is James Balmforth's Failed Obelisk, with its detached apex flailing on a spring, and a ziggurat-like piece from Molly Smyth called Motion Towards Collapse: both names suggest defectiveness but the pieces couldn't look more assured of their own clout and strength.

Andrew Chevalier plays the wicked Franz as a snickering demon who uses physical disability to justify moral defectiveness, and Tom Radford as Karl has more than a touch of Hamlet's mix of dither and danger – he even greets his imprisoned father as if he were a ghost.

In commuting the death sentence of Percy L. Walton, Governor Kaine said a new sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole "is now the only constitutionally appropriate court of action" in view of Mr. Walton's continuing mental defectiveness.

Obviously this argument would be valid only if the link between degrees of belief and betting ratios were identity (in which case there would be no difference between pragmatic and doxastic defectiveness) — and we have already seen that it is not.

We are urged to transform our values by taking to heart the greater reality of the forms and the defectiveness of the corporeal world.

Defectiveness in this context is a straightforwardly factual matter.

It is this incorrection or defectiveness that the idea that truth is a norm of assertion is trying to capture.

The general culture usually associates disability with defectiveness, insufficiency, and imperfection, in other words, with states that philosophy throughout its history has mainly aimed to transcend or overcome.