Sentence examples for lacking bravery from inspiring English sources

Fighters from Misurata who favor virile phrases to describe their town — like "factory of men" — chided their colleagues from the eastern city of Benghazi for lacking bravery.

"We got criticised two years ago in the Euros for lacking bravery, lacking a cutting edge in the final third and not creating enough, surrendering possession to the opposition," said Gerrard.

Does that make me a person lacking bravery?

… I am ashamed to work for the BBC when it lacks bravery to admit it is making a mistake".

We probed but lacked bravery.

Eventually I had to confront the fact that I wasn't Kerouac, lacking the bravery to do things in his pure, unprotected way.

Eventually I had to confront the fact that I wasn't Kerouac, lacking the bravery to do things his pure, unprotected way.

Therefore those who can't do it, particularly in a dramatic way, those who choke, lack courage, lack bravery".

The Chinese authorities, he says, lack the bravery or ability to "break through the restraints of ideology".

The United States is sending a succession of envoys to engage with Hamas but lacks the bravery to talk to the Islamist movement openly, its leader, Khaled Meshal, said in an interview with the Guardian.

Henley's characters are lost and eccentric, women familiar from the roster of the Southern gothic, but her work lacks the bravery of writers who have mined similar territory to sharper effect: the West Virginia-born short-story writer Jayne Anne Phillips, for example, whose tales about drifters and speed freaks are capable of vulgarity and ugliness — and much greater emotional reach.