Sentences with phrase «for lack of a word»

We use it only for lack of a word to show our meaning better.

Since God Created, He can also «manipulate» (for lack of another word) His Creation.

So basically you are denying to yourself it has Hindu roots and for the lack of words belongs to Hinduism so you can practice it?

The situation is even better (for a lack of word) in DC, where the figure is 74 percent.

looking for friendship and love possible more to a lady that lives in the Vancouver area.I'm a little rusty at this so bare with me for lack of words lets talk and get to know each other for a fresh start

Cornering grip is, for lack of another word, tremendous.

Now numbering in the thousands, the resulting images make up an archive entitled For the Lack of Words, from which Lease has selected three vivid examples for display in the gallery's lounge.

Not exact matches

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

Many have interpreted her words as putting the blame for Facebook's lack of diverse hiring on a lack of talent — a pipeline problem, as tech companies like to say.

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.

Of course it takes tremendous amounts of time and effort and, for lack of a more scientific word, stick - to - itiveness, to make any real progress in the worlOf course it takes tremendous amounts of time and effort and, for lack of a more scientific word, stick - to - itiveness, to make any real progress in the worlof time and effort and, for lack of a more scientific word, stick - to - itiveness, to make any real progress in the worlof a more scientific word, stick - to - itiveness, to make any real progress in the world.

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

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.

I confess that I do lack the words to adequately celebrate the Lenny Bruces and Berkley - ites of yore, and all the other «barrier - breakers» who broke down our manners and grammar, but PBS will surely find them for me.

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.

Yesterday, President Obama took to the podium and proclaimed, ``... we have always been and always will be a triple - A country,» and it sounded like empty sentimentalism from a man at a loss for words and for meaning» the kind of helpless, grasping - at - straws thing you say to a defeated friend you are trying to buck up, even as you know you lack the answers, or the resources, to offer either consolation or solutions.

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.

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

My bristling thoughts about the lack of quality and integrity in the Oberammergau Passion Play were softened somewhat by words I found in the official guide to the play which indicate that the village itself is not devoid of agitation for reform.

If we were to be operating in the realm of the Spirit, there would be no lack... if we took the words of Jesus seriously and sought only the kingdom of God, everything would be taken care of... and yet we persist in praying for what God can give us and not for the manifestation in our lives.

How little they are confined to the events of the first Good Friday is amply illustrated by the words which a disciple of St. Paul puts into his master's mouth: «Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the Church» (Col. 1:24).

He concluded his first letter, back in 1979, with these touching words: «Think of the places where people anxiously await a priest, and where for many years, feeling the lack of such a priest, they do not cease to hope for his presence.

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.

I would suggest a change of wording here: for «loss of coherence» I should like to substitute «lack of coherence.»

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!

I often think that one reason for the lack of clarity is to keep us humble and to keep us going to God for help on understanding His Word.

Where there is a lack of these things, it is time for us to draw back to the Word and what it says about the Spirit.

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.

This is, of course, a lack of understanding of Kendrick's lines, which rely on the Christian understanding that the poor are God, not in some fairy - tale fashion, but according to the words of Christ, «whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.»

Here is a christian brother about to be executed for preaching the Word of God, for sharing the faith he has in Christ... compared to the ones who are going to execute him for his faith (or according to them, lack there of).

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.

«B = lack of support for premise A» If you are just relabling «lack of support» as B, as in, I believe there is a «lack of support» for A then you're just playing word games.

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?

The author of this uninspired piece lacking in true research and zero enlightenment would do well to take a journey in solitude so he may hear the true word of God for himself, rather than an interpretation meant to please a mass audience who will feel obligated to part with their hard earned and hard to find money....

But Christianity is also an on - going learn and belief (for lack of the right word) system.

«Everyone who lives on milk lacks experience of the word of righteousness, for he is a child.

However, what was here only implicit in a word was fully developed by the great prophet of the Exile, whom, for lack of better information, we call Second Isaiah.

@jf well your information about the New Testament is about as accurate as your Old Testament knowledge, The prophecies of the Old testament concerning Christ could not have been written after the fact because we now have the Dead Sea Scrolls, with an almost complete Old Testament dated 100 - 200 years before the birth of Christ, Your interpretation of God at His worst shows a complete lack of understanding as to what was being communicated.We don't know what the original texts of the New Testament were written in as to date there are no original copies available.Greek was the common language of the day.Most of the gospels were reported written somewhere in the 30 year after Christs resurrection time frame, not the unspecified «long after «you reference and three of the authors knew Jesus personally in His earthly ministry, the other Knew Jesus as his savior and was in the company of many who also knew Jesus.You keep referencing changes, «gazillion «was the word used but you never referenced one change, so it is assumed we are to take your word for it.What may we ask are your credentials?Try reading Job your own self, particularly the section were Job says «My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you.Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes»