Sentence examples for inability to please from inspiring English sources

In some individuals, the perceived inability to please a distant and demanding divinity can lead to overwhelming guilt and neuroses.

Soon enough, the hostage will start concentrating on his captors' "good side" and develop psychological characteristics to please them — "dependency; lack of initiative; and an inability to act, decide or think".

The researchers wrote that volunteer trainers on youth and lower-tier junior teams reported "pressure to please coaches, parents, players and management" and "an inability to sustain the scrutiny of their decisions for excluding injured players from play".

If overeagerness to please is a defect in Mr. Gore, Mr. Bradley possesses an even more disturbing inability to convey a real hunger for the opportunity to serve.

Now left with a demoralizing inability to make passengers happy, some of them now describe that aspect of their personalities as "the disease to please".

This little fracas around YouTube comments, and my inability to use the website as I please except by using Google's own identity-hiding techniques against it reminded me of that.

"Please know that my inability to attend in person does not reflect any lack of respect for you, your important committee or the City Council," Dolan said in the letter.

Will you now please send some fighters?", receiving the reply, "Regret inability to supply fighters.

Included here is a fair sampling of the multisyllabic: aprosexia (an abnormal inability to pay attention), dangleation (dallying with girls; flirtation), mellisonant (sweet-sounding; pleasing to the ear).

A persistent effort by a college student complaining about her inability to get information from the famously reticent P.R. staff finally elicited a testy, "Please leave us alone".

And as far as progress goes, please fire any public servant who utters those words to cover their inability to produce results.