Sentence examples for lack of mettle from inspiring English sources

Either course would have been defensible; floundering between them suggested a lack of mettle.

Camby's critics view such dispassionate quotations as evidence of his lack of mettle.

But if they were untrue, it shows an odd lack of mettle to have given up because of them.

Djokovic's dodgy conditioning suggested a sort of moral flabbiness, a lack of mettle, that made him unpopular with some of his peers.

Particularly in the morning session, they showed distinct and disappointing lack of mettle, apprehensive of what might happen rather than living in the moment and playing deliveries on merit.

In her book of essays, The Death of Adam, Robinson takes issue with the lack of mettle in modern women compared to their antecedents, all the forgotten heroines of the 19th century of whom only Harriet Beecher Stowe is really remembered.

None of the people currently running London Transport come close to matching Pick's dynamism, nor do their peers at the Royal Mail or British Telecom, and they tend to choose designers of their own mettle (or lack of it).

If they win, attention will probably turn to cleaning up AlphaGo in preparation for a consumer release, and Hassabis hopes that a highly skilled Go programme could be an important step in popularising the game in the west, where would-be stars are often hampered by the lack of opponents to test their mettle against.

Aécio Neves, the likely candidate of the biggest opposition group, the Party of Brazilian Social Democracy (PDSB), seems to lack the mettle to face a strong incumbent.

Recent days have been a test of mettle.

There's even a Science Bravery Challenge with tests of mettle, like letting a stick bug stand on your head.