Sentences with phrase «for want of a»

Lots of debating (for want of a better word) going on about Pep and Mour, both good managers in their own way, both have been winners of the top prizes at the top clubs with the top players and neither having built a side on a lower budget which makes them cheque book managers.
Please note that I have taken a very simplistic analysis, in part for want of all the relevant information.
Thursday: I was lacking inspiration for breakfast, and for want of anything better, I threw together some left over cooked rice, vegetables and some frozen shrimp meat to cook up a breakfast version of shrimp fried rice.
I give you (for want of a better name) the Unwilling Cook's «Faux brulee»!
For want of a few more blood oranges, some Meyer lemons were used, and born out of the uncertainty of that unusual pairing, some poppy seeds were added.
From The Love of Chilies comes their freeze dried Pequin Chilli «Chunks» for want of a better word.
I'm calling this marble cake for want of a better name, but I wanted solid blocks of cake so they could be tasted as an entity in their own right, rather than swirled in true marble cake style.
What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?»
That said, most days I actually go without the bread, but not for want of a gluten free life.
Women need to acknowledge that they have the same drives and temptations to sin as males have — not just sins of dependency but also the sins of dominance, of which they have been less guilty (not for want of capacity, but for want of opportunity).
Yes, it is a natural experience encountered by millions and millions of women throughout history - but it is worth remembering that many have also died for want of the basic medical care that some in the West fondly imagine we can do without.
Perhaps, for want of a better term, it might be described as an «ethic of cocreation.»
I suppose what I am saying as a man, is that I might not be aware of it as much as my female colleagues, so I am relying to some extent on women to give me an indication of what is mysogeny or (for want of a better word) women being bitchy about men and what is the appropriate way to engage in any given situation.
It's not for want of reason, but want of will that they continue to stand.
This work by Jean - Marie Elie Sorbin is very valuable as it is - for want of a better word - messy.
It was Dr Walley, who has witnessed first - hand the horror of young mothers dying for want of appropriate medical facilities, who suggested that to the Seven Sorrows of Mary an eighth sorrow should be added: the suffering of thousands of women who die giving birth to their babies and the millions who, in despair, turn to abortion.
It was not for any want of grace, which is wanting for no man; but it was for want of humility.
To experience genuine freedom, to be wholly transparent, to love unconditionally... some days, I literally ache for want of it; and honestly, on those days all that holds me together is the knowledge that God himself aches for each of us to be fully free, fully loved, whole.
If I have withheld the poor from their desire, Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail, Or have eaten my morsel alone, And the fatherless hath not eaten thereof (Nay, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, And her have I guided from my mother's womb); If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, Or that the needy had no covering; If his loins have not blessed me, And if he hath not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep; If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, Because I saw my help in the gate: Then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder - blade, And mine arm be broken from the bone.
But it has also promoted a distraction of mind in the reader, so that, perhaps precisely from respect and admiration for China and Persia, the thinkers of the middle ages, the four universal monarchies (a discovery which, as it did not escape Geert Westphaler, has also set many a Hegelian Geert Westphaler's tongue wagging), he may have forgotten to inquire whether it now really did become evident at the end, at the close of this journey of enchantment, as was repeatedly promised in the beginning, and what was of course the principal issue, for the want of which not all the glories of the world could compensate, what alone could be a sufficient reward for the unnatural tension in which one had been held — that the method was valid.
The second strand is what, for want of a better term, I call peer - solidarity.
One of the most striking features of Benedict's time in office is how frequently he has been assailed and disparaged by certain members of the «Catholic left» (for want of a better term)» often harshly and bitterly.
I think what we who are Churchmen need to realize is that although the Church is the divinely - established fellowship in which Christ's work is being done, this divine reality of the Church is coupled with what, for want of a better word, I may call the Church's «empirical» side.
I call myself an agnostically tinged neo-animist, for want of a pithier term.
We simply ease away one more time into our own shadows with Peter and weep for want of a Pentecost in our own lives.
And when their common language, used to do business in a technically preoccupied age, is shaped to the paucity of dimensions necessary to such business, the roundness and the depth become silent for want of verbal counterparts for the felt but inchoate self.
That is what I have tried to do, and it has led me to accept, however improbable they may appear, the reality and the consequences of the major cosmic process which, for want of a better name, I have called «human planetization».
Chant «democratises» (for want of a better word) the music of the liturgy.
It is not handed down in graven tablets, but is fluid and a uniquely «democratic» (for want of a better word) thing.
They are, for want of a better term, emigrants of the spirit.
1 Don't Bogart the Blunt 2 Don't leave a lady hanging for want of her fair share 3 Keep the beverages frosty, and your shorts clean 4 Don't beat the dog, your lover or your kids 5 Buy good speakers, they can spruce up a crummy car
Hence in social terms the disorderly turmoil of individuals pursuing conflicting and egotistical aims; and, on the national scale, the chaos of armed conflict in which, for want of a better object, the excess of accumulated energy is destructively released... «Idleness, mother of all vices.»
When such principles are lacking, personal existence loses its zest and meaning, life seems stale and unprofitable, and personality decays for want of an integrating objective.
It seems, for want of a better word «Christian» to believe one can be ones own father?
It was for want of any rigorously intellectual churchmen that the clergy were, in both their minds and those of the reformers, content to be identified with the furtherance of mediocrity.
By refusing to let her be his wife, or even his lover in his bereavement, the fathers let her become a camp follower, a whore for want of a purpose in the Nazarene band.
I use it for want of a better term, intentionally implying an ultimate mythological background for much of the material in Gen.1 - 11, but recognizing at the same time the thoroughgoing way in which Israel «historicized» all of her myths.
They failed, as we know, but not for want of trying, and not because of a lack of support from the Vatican.
America is dying for want of repairmen!
For want of a better term, I call it the Whig narrative.
has about it something of a demand for a pedigree, which might at least lend some credibility to the claims Christ makes for himself; for want of which, Pilate can do little other than pronounce his truth: «I have power to crucify thee» (which, to be fair, would under most circumstances be an incontrovertible argument).
And this same standard — «noble wisdom,» for want of a better term — was the foundation and mortar of Roman civilization.
The difference is in that God predates (for want of a better term) time, logic, and natural order.
Yet it remains the unshakable conviction of Christians, from New Testament days until today, that there is what must be called, for want of a better word, an «eternal» order, an «eternal» plan and an «eternal» life.
Recent debates in the pages of First Thingsand other conservative journals over Darwin's theory of evolution and creationism reveal the degree to which Catholics seem stuck in the trees for want of seeing the forest, the lopsided degree to which the Church gives assent to philosophy without deeply exploring the particular science it considers a threat, (this journal, it goes without saying, excepted).
First, it presses toward the elimination of any distinction (philosophical, political, and eventually legal) between relatively clear crimes against property and bodies and crimes against (for want of a better term) individual psychological well - being.
I'd agree that the Bible is a reflection of «the human condition» (for want of a better term).
Some of us are drowning, suffocating, dying of thirst for want of the cold water of real community.
The world will never starve for want of wonders, but only for want of wonder.
Our friends do not quarrel with our assessment of how bad, in fact, things are, but they seem to condemn us for a want of prudence in saying so.
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