Sentence examples for total lack of confidence from inspiring English sources

In the background a slew of personal problems – divorce, alcohol, inappropriate behaviour and total lack of confidence – took their toll.

"I saw from this affair the total lack of confidence management had in me," Mr. Balthazard added.

When I was a young artist, I had incredible confidence on the one hand and total lack of confidence on the other.

Bloggers demonstrate a total lack of confidence in the government's ability to address corruption, which is particularly rampant at a local level.

"There is a total lack of confidence in Washington to do anything to get us out of this problem," said Ryan Detrick, senior technical analyst at Schaeffer's Investment Research.

"The big problem with the European economy at the moment is that there is a total lack of confidence in households," said Peter Westaway, chief economist for Europe at Vanguard Asset Management in London.

"There was a total lack of transparency to the process that allowed the public to lose confidence that competence, credentials and integrity were being evaluated in an independent way," said City Councilman Lewis A. Fidler of Brooklyn.

Business and the military are two fertile breeders of excessive self-confidence, but the only essential qualification for a white-horse candidate is a total lack of experience in running for or holding elective office.

Total lack of perspective.

They have a total lack of experience.

Once again, a total lack of understanding.