Sentence examples for lacking grit from inspiring English sources
"Glee" may love music, but often it abuses it, with performances wholly lacking grit.
If lacking grit means I go out of my way to avoid trying, unpleasant situations, that sounds like me, too.
Begin Again lacks jeopardy; it lacks grit.
"The other side lacked grit, it lacked energy," Ms. Staiger said.
"A two-star film," reckons Dinning, who says such mistakes are rare and dismisses accusations the magazine lacks grit.
May 10-13: The highly touted singer Kate McGarry lacks grit, but her musical instincts and taste in supporting musicians are sure; her band includes the saxophonist Donny McCaslin and the drummer Gregory Hutchinson.
We find that the people who lack grit tend to be those who believe that abilities are fixed, that you sort of either win the DNA lottery or you don't.
New York Times commentators, best-selling journalists, the producers of "This American Life," Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, educational policymakers and administrators all saw the development of grit as a way to improve American education and, more pointedly, to improve the achievement of poor children who, everyone seemed to assume, lacked grit.
Individuals who lack grit struggle to finish school and cannot keep up with credit card debt.
That he was perceived as lacking in grit was another irony in the life of Mr. Bush.
