Sentence examples for lack instead of from inspiring English sources

I don't want her to miss out, I don't want to be the mean mom, and what's more, I don't want her to look back at her childhood and see lack, instead of love.

I used to focus on lack instead of abundance.

So we tend to dwell on what we're lacking, instead of what we have".

It positions whiteness as weak and lacking instead of "privileged" or "supreme" while acknowledging the damage and violence this "fragility" has the power to cause.

Before going shopping, if you have the skills needed, try to make what is lacking, instead of going straight to shopping.

However, the situation of group B was different from group A. From the suggestion of the diagnosis results, the "sets in" link became the most number of lacking links instead of the "pass through" link.

Then you can play more than one part if you are lacking cast, instead of subtitles that could go too quick for your watchers to read.

It was a lack of sharpness instead of a lack of fitness.

But for the ones who are presumably supposed to benefit most from this system – who eat too much or not enough – what this labelling feeds into is a negative and guilt-ridden idea of compensation, which makes exercise sound like paying off a lack of willpower instead of the life-enhancing and life-changing pleasure it has the potential to be.

"Yet this contagious happiness has its dark side: Feeling dejected or unhappy in a place like Stanford causes one to feel abnormal and out-of-place, so we may tend to internalize and brood over this lack of happiness instead of productively addressing the situation".

They appear to lack suitable terms – instead of society, they use Volk; instead of talking about social inequality, they scapegoat those who are allegedly workshy, or foreigners who want to live on what we've worked hard for; politics' permanent genuflection to the demands of the business lobby is reduced to complaining about outside regulation by Brussels, etc, etc.