Sentence examples for deficiency of character from inspiring English sources

In each of us there is something unfulfilled, some ache or deficiency of character that leads us to fill a hole in the heart with the love of strangers.

Paul Tough, the author of the 2012 best-seller, How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity and the Hidden Power of Character, would undoubtedly advance this explanation and place the blame on a deficiency of character skills.

Their study, called the Pathology in the Hundred Acre Wood: A Neurodevelopmental Perspective on A. A. Milne, was one in which the authors describe the various deficiencies of each character.

What's most important in the making of a terrorist is not some kind of character deficiency, nor psychopathic or sadistic tendencies, but something much more banal: who you spend time with and what they say and do.

The novel is told with elegant detachment, allowing us to organize and judge the eccentricities and deficiencies of its characters.

"Our greatest deficiency is in the development of character of young people," Mr. Quinones said, adding that the schools had to teach students to be caring about others.

Although unplanned, the theme of the campaign, which starts with a mobile-first debut of the ad on Facebook, coincidentally dovetails with Craig's comments earlier this month lamenting the moral deficiencies of the Bond character.

It will depend on his industry, sobriety, diligence and virtue; and if he do not succeed, in nine cases out of ten, the cause of the failure is to be found in the deficiencies of his own character.

One of the earliest references to dignity is in Aristotle's Eudemian Ethics [ 18] where it appears as one of fourteen virtues or mean states of character between an excess of unaccommodatingness and of deficiency or servility [ 18].

A listener messaged to inform me that "cats are a renowned judge of character" and that Harry's difficult behaviour was therefore a reflection of my deficiencies.

He made up for this deficiency by the careful study of documents, by an extraordinarily retentive memory, and by being a shrewd judge of character.