The series, published by Kodansha Comics, is about an eighth grader named Hikage Sumino who lacks self-esteem.
In any case, their implication — that Beatrice lacks self-esteem — feels more like a snap diagnosis from Dr. Phil than a genuine insight into her inner life.
In a culture that favours the confident and outgoing, Tess has a quiet, reserved personality, carries excess pounds (grist to the mean girls' mill) and lacks self-esteem.
Your definition of success is perhaps the very social ill that has transcended in how society lacks self-esteem in their work and this has thus led to the devaluing of a more humble way of life.
For a child that is quiet, and lacks self-esteem scuba diving has given him confidence to speak about his trips with not only his classmates, but also adults.
She shows a low confidence level and lacks self-esteem.
Following this logic, if I saw someone in a wheelchair who I thought lacked self-esteem, I could insult them, to make them stronger.
Most of them, in answering questions, said they came from broken or troubled homes, lacked self-esteem or felt depressed, and craved acceptance.
The last year I lived with them, my father came to the bizarre conclusion that he lacked self-esteem and he bought a self-help program that he was meant to listen to through headphones as he slept.
Instead, it is the avaricious soldiers of empire who insult the natives as occupying forces and a nation lacking self-esteem that cannot remove them.
We know that young women have deep-rooted educational prejudices that science and technology favor male applicants (Zhu 2006), they lack self-esteem in the high technology fields despite their often much higher grades and performance than their male counterparts (ibid), and they struggle to balance family and working life often feeling that the former has to take precedence over the latter.
