Sentence examples for lack of grit from inspiring English sources

In talking about this I have been attacked for blaming youth unemployment on a lack of "grit" in young people.

A minister was the target of criticism after he suggested that a lack of "grit" was one of the reasons why young people were failing to find jobs.

Absent my hoped-for revolution, they will get lost in the public-school system, condemned, perhaps, for a lack of grit that they cannot be responsible for.

Bryant was frustrated by his team's lack of grit in the loss to the Cavaliers and seemed to carry a foul mood to the Garden.

It is shown that the lack of grit blasting prior to HVOF deposition does not seem to compromise the functionality of the coated system, while it avoids the introduction of further sharp stress concentrators for the nucleation of fatigue cracks.

Jones has constructed a team that is always dancing on the edge of selfishness — Terrell Owens and Adam Jones are two prime examples — and now the lack of grit has caught up to the Cowboys.

But the place more than makes up for its lack of urban grit with a wholesome blend of parks, a well-educated, well-traveled population and excellent cultural outlets, including the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and the Ordway Center for Performing Arts in downtown St . Paul

Nadal did not lack for grit but there was a deficit of imagination as, time and again, Federer found the angles.

His accounts, if occasionally repetitive, never lack for grit.

Bruno Mars' "Locked Out of Heaven," which purports to be about sex but lacks any hint of grit or grunt.

In a previous post, I discussed the problem of children's lack of motivation and grit.