Each time I read a book from someone who's a brilliant writer (yes, you Brene), I find myself feeling incredibly deficient.
Virtue, then, is a reliable disposition whereby one reacts in relevant situations with the appropriate feeling — neither excessive nor deficient — and acts in the appropriate way — neither excessively nor deficiently.
And though the narrator coddles his own melodramas, and tries to convince us that he is a kind of modern French version of the nineteenth-century Russian "superfluous man," deficient in feelings and proudly isolate, he is not without sympathetic understanding.
I have always been a thinker, and feeling is what had been deficient in my life.
While they now outnumber first families in the U.S., many stepfamily members report feeling second-best or somehow deficient when our thoughts turn to turkey, yultide, and latkahs.
When everyone takes it for granted that you've done the dirty – when, in fact, you haven't – it's difficult to shake the feeling that you're slightly deficient as a human being.
Maybe I was just feeling dreamy after an oxygen-deficient week in the high altitude of the Himalayas, or maybe I was genuinely contemplating a goal that would remain just as urgent and possible after my descent back to earth.
Aufderheide has a congenitally deficient sense of smell.
It is a very deficient ideology in my opinion.
