Sentences with phrase «for lack of a better»

The influence of such titans has created the expectation that to be successful in business, one must be able to be, for lack of a better term, mean.

Loki is the, for lack of a better word, emo adopted son of Odin and Thor's brother.

Sometimes in a leadership position you have to, for lack of a better term, bust some balls.

It has a certain level of immediacy and, for lack of a better buzzword, authenticity.

Change takes time, but for lack of better words: Time is simply up.

She told us that she didn't mean to be ignorant, for lack of a better word.

In 1987's Wall Street, when Gordon Gekko tells the shareholders of Teldar Paper that «greed, for lack of a better word, is good,» he wears a double - breasted suit.

«I think what this taps into is the consumer who wants to save money but doesn't necessarily want to buy, for lack of a better expression, cheap s — t.

Yesterday was yet another interesting - for lack of a better word - day for the markets.

So what are some things you can do to keep your profiles fresh, accurate and, for lack of a better term, «alive»?

Pruitt is «not the first person to be the victim of, for lack of a better term, Washington politics,» said former House Energy and Commerce Chairman Joe Barton (R - Texas).

The «sale,» for lack of a better word, is on setting the appointment, and therefore receptivity is overvalued and appointments are often set with people that are not ready or qualified.

Because of this, we have an agreement that she gets an «allowance» (for lack of a better word) from me.

It is an «energetic time», for lack of a better word.

I became (for lack of a better word) a mentor to many advisors, where they'd bring opportunities to me that were stuck (or they'd actually lost) and I'd work with them to recover the opportunity.

The fact that we are here proves there must be something supreme, or above us, for lack of a better term, or a «God.»

unlike the empty chair inviting people to invent their own version, the God of Abraham is a real «person» (for lack of a better term), and it's his way or the highway.

I guess... I guess I'm just ready to compromise, to «accept», for lack of a better word, positions that I would disagree with, even find offensive.

and for lack of better terminology got lost in translation.

Even though you don't believe this happened, you'll have to admit that today, if Jesus Christ appeared to you and said «touch me if you don't believe I exist» - and you touched the apparition - your state of intelligent evolution (for lack of a better way of describing it) would leave you unsatisfied you touched God.

And I would like to apologize for their poor bedside manner, for lack of better terms.

Keep it fair and at some time some folks have to own up to the fact that their non-belief system for lack of a better term is a belief system unto itself.

Also, It doesn't matter if they have 4,000 members or 400 members, they just don't want religion shoved in their faces from all of the (for lack of a better word) Holy Rollers.

for lack of good talking points, you concoct 2 straw men arguments.

This why you can see a differences today between Jews, like Jon Stewart who has a very European look and guys like Benjamin Netanyahu who has a very distinct (for the lack of a better term) ethnic look to him.

Love and the unity it manifests aren't just something the Spirit creates, but something the Spirit endows, for lack of a better word.

Paradoxically the more atheists I come into contact with the more strength I find in my belief that they, for lack of a better term, lack a certain gene (yes, I get the irony).

But Martin is primarily interested in what, for lack of a better formula, I shall call the problem of faith and history.

This objection is, for the lack of a better name, nothing more than «egg mysticism»: the belief that eggs are somehow so potently driven to create zygotes that no scientific manipulation will prove capable of deflecting the egg from its preordained path.

What I meant is that the initial creation of the first cell capable of life was, for lack of a better word, a miracle either way.

From my admittedly limited vantage point, the gravest dangers for us seem to be not legalism but antinomianism, not intellectualism but sentimentalism, not scrupulosity but laxity, not despair but presumption, not all - out retreat but all - out assimilation, not pharisaic ritualism but anti-liturgical iconoclasm, not missionary timidity but evangelical over-hastiness, not self - referentialism but self - forgetfulness (and not the good kind), not stifling uniformity but disjointed miscellany, not clericalism but, for lack of a better word, laicism.

As I got out into the world myself, I was stunned by how petty and (for lack of a better word.)?

It was during the doldrums when people got restless, impatient, ambitious and, for lack of a better word, bitchy.

Still too many voids, unobservable processes and missing, well for lack of a better term, «links» for me to accept it as fact.

My brothers response for lack of a better excuse was the devil made me do it.

I think that (and this is where I would like input from a greek scholar) Romans 1:5 and Romans 10:16 link belief as a agreement of the report, and then also links belief in the Gospel report as obedience, which would then be for lack of a better term - the lowest common denominator of faith.

Creationism is based on the belief in God (the unknown being a higher «power» for lack of a better term).

The larger problem at play here is people largely as a whole are for lack of a better word, stupid, and I'm not talking about either evolutionists or creationist - what I actually mean is both sides!

Those who believe in a «purpose» «greater good» or «intelligent design» for a lack of better man made terms, use the verbiage and concept of God.

And for anyone blaming evolution for the lack of good parenting and the overall lack of common sense and common decency in this world today, quit it..

I only call myself a Christian for lack of a better word.

Well, that's a separate issue, it is for the lack of better term the word «Personal» is used.

Ground Zero is kind of «sacred» for lack of a better word, to the families and supporters of the men and women who lost their lives trying to save life and are protecting our rights to say what we want.

And you're asking us where you are incorrect, but your statements are, for lack of a better term, scattered.

Khalid Latif's veiled threats of violence in a letter to NYU's President if he were to allow a student organization to display Danish cartoons of Muhammad is evidence that he is no fan of freedom of speech and believes in defending sharia law's blasphemy statute (for lack of a better word).

For lack of a better word, I use the word atheist to describe where I am currently at.

I know this by his presence for lack of a better word to describe it.

That's just, for lack of a better term, retarded.

If someone in politics said that today, on either side, they'd be (for lack of a better term) politically crucified.

Honestly, do you really buy that all that you see was formed coincidentally from all the right «particles» for a lack of a better word?