Sentence examples similar to is lacking in virtue from inspiring English sources

In short, if you don't eat clean you are lacking in virtue.

If these considerations are correct, then the unjust are lacking in virtue tout court, whereas the just possess all of the virtues.

From the president on down there is an accepted belief in America — black and white — that African-American people, and African-American men, in particular, are lacking in the virtues in family, hard work, and citizenship.

Now I'm not saying for a minute that Jews and Moslems and Chinamen and blacks are lacking in any of these virtues, but it so happens that they put them together in a different showcase".

If our students are lacking in character, perhaps we should examine more closely those people we look to as models of virtue.

"We are lacking in initiative.

In short, the appearance of courage may be mistaken for actual courage whenever the rational component of virtue is lacking.

Doshi acidly called them "pure imitation," quick to be erected but lacking in "virtue".

The accused are almost always young high school dropouts from surrounding villages, where women who work outside the home are often seen as lacking in virtue and therefore deserving of harassment and even rape.

The great virtue of these books is that they offer Chinese people a voice, something that is often lacking in news coverage.

He makes the point that aspects of Muslim culture - modesty, piety, manners - are virtues lacking in Western society.