Sentence examples for deficient character from inspiring English sources

Not to do so would, in Aristotle's view, indicate the morally deficient character of the inirascible person.

Because of the imperfect and deficient character of the sensible objects one cannot derive from them objects that are as perfect and as precise as mathematical objects are.

So one architectural design may be aesthetically compelling as it reflects its ethically upstanding character, whereas another design may be aesthetically compelling as it reflects its ethically deficient character.

To the contrary, close scrutiny of their articulations will reveal that each was convinced that the civilizational inferiority of continental Africans, and of the ignorant, brutally constrained Negroes of deficient character in the United States, was due to conditions of deprivation fostered by the enslavement and racism fostered by White people.

From INT5 a 1,2-hydride shift takes place (TS5), which is driven by the electron-deficient character at the 2-position.

The subsequent step of the reaction is the key 1,2-hydride shift (TS5), driven by the electron-deficient character at the 2-position in INT5.

An Anglican Journal review described the movie as reasonably faithful to the adventure elements of the book, much lighter on the religious faith aspects, which they found integral to the novel, and deficient on character and emotion.

The duration information is still mostly disregarded in HMM-based automatic cursive handwriting recognizers due to the fact that HMMs are deficient in modeling character durations properly.

Criminality is viewed more as a natural developmental process, and less as deficient, anti-social "character".

In the cases considered by Sorensen, Effort Required plausibly detracts from moral worth because it reflects some "deficient state of character that makes the action hard" (p. 94).

The Guardians John Crace expressed his belief that most of the programme's male characters are deficient in some way, writing: "surely it must be possible to make a show with women lead characters without having to make every male a complete dork?