Sentence examples for lack of worthwhile from inspiring English sources

Ligon has to drive her 12-year-old car wherever she goes, both for safety and due to Detroit's lack of worthwhile public transit.

But this, he says, has little to do with Islam and Islamism, and everything to do with discrimination, harsh policing and a lack of worthwhile jobs.

Mr. Pelecanos also treads a thin line between cogent argument and oversimplification when he ascribes the woes of young men in "Soul Circus" to the lack of worthwhile father figures -- and lets Derek try to pick up that slack.

Critics had long deplored the lack of worthwhile modern English drama, and toward the end of the century William Archer was one of many writers who called for an equivalent of the Théâtre-Libre that would bring the "theatre of ideas" to England.

We can comment on the half-baked BlackBerry PlayBook and the lack of worthwhile apps.

Today, the lack of worthwhile programming — not looking for new and better ways to broadcast the existing programming — is the problem.

"Give me frappuccinos, an MI5 officer laughing at my Candy Crush Saga score on state-surveilled technology and the abject lack of any worthwhile future, or give me something else, I dunno," is my attitude.

The Lizard is not visually appealing nor is Dr. Conners particularly interesting once his transformation takes hold (Rhys Ifans is no Willem Dafoe), and this lack of a worthwhile antagonist is fatal to the film's action-filled second half.

One of the most successful forms of advertising ever is the yellow pages: its costs are low enough to make its relative lack of effectiveness still worthwhile to the advertiser, and there are enough advertisers, and yellow pages are cheap enough to produce, that it's profitable for the publisher, too.

Though the problem involves numerous simplifications that may lead to the lack of reality, it is worthwhile to mention that the optimum shapes look similar to those of tooth roots.

A qualitative study of UK service personnel's opinions on the potential introduction of screening found that whilst screening was considered worthwhile, lack of confidence in military health care, along with lack of trust that results would be confidential, stigmatised beliefs and concerns about impact on career would prevent service personnel from answering honestly [ 14].