Sentence examples for mentally lacking from inspiring English sources

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American sportswriters, a heavily white group, have a long and sordid history of depicting black athletes as physically gifted and mentally lacking, while attributing the opposite to whites: Isiah Thomas, a black former basketball star, once said that commentators emphasised his natural talent so much that their coverage sounded "like I came dribbling out of my mother's womb".

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Moss feels women have the necessary physical strength to race but thought they would be lacking mentally.

Under-supervised by her guileless, mentally ill mother and lacking the well-loved child's reflexive suspicion of strangers, Fragoso finds a playmate with "bowl-cut, sandy-silver hair," who "didn't even seem adult in the sense of that natural separateness adults have from children".

Nature informs us that women are physically frail, mentally feeble, and generally lacking in the necessary leadership virtues.

Predigested and filling, it lacks mentally nutritional value while giving readers a serious case of brain gas.

As he wrote, "Systemic failures persist in the form of inadequate suicide prevention measures, excessive administrative segregation of the mentally ill, lack of timely access to adequate care, insufficient treatment space and access to beds, and unmet staffing needs".

I think the resiliency we're lacking right now is due to a weakness mentally".

"These marriages, according to Dr. Braz, produce generation after generation of mentally disabled individuals who lack the capacity to function successfully and independently," investigators wrote.

Those who oppose the execution of the mentally retarded say they lack the moral culpability to justify their receiving the ultimate punishment.

No one consciously decides not to win, no one ever thinks that they don't much fancy winning the World Cup, but this was a team who were mentally fatigued and subconsciously lacked something intangible: conviction, necessity, intensity, concentration, joy, enthusiasm, unity.

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