Sentence examples for lacking the grit from inspiring English sources

Among politicians and policymakers there seems to be a sense that children are lacking the "grit" required in the modern world.

The new version lacked the grit and humor of the old Creem and soon folded.

The eldest Stark daughter has always lacked the grit of her siblings and Turner has played the role woodenly.

The willowy, big-eyed Ms. Di Tolla lacks the grit of the movie's Lelia Goldoni, but Jessica Jelliffe, in three small roles, is a radiantly vivacious presence.

Sure, "Truck Yeah," a renegade power-country number in the Kid Rock vein, is a stretch for Mr. McGraw, but he lacks the grit to pull it off.

The new songs are agreeable enough, but lack the grit of rock and their usual knack for naff, lyrical catchiness that made "Sing" and "Driftwood" such big hits.

We may think they lack the grit necessary to deal with the consequences, good or bad.

Matthew McConaughey has the look, but 'Free State of Jones' lacks the grit to be good.

Does it want perfection like Barack Obama, who rarely stumbles but lacks the grit to get American out of the morass of crushing debt and joblessness, or does it want men and women who can dig us out but who have dirt under their fingernails?

She lacks the Stark grit of her siblings and has been downright annoying at times and a change is needed.

Elliot Teaford writes on CBSSports.com that the Lakers showed they lack the necessary grit and Bill Livingston writes in the Cleveland Plain Dealer that it's too early to call Cavs-Lakers a rivalry, but it does qualify as an event.