lack of reserve
Example Sentences
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Their metal frame and heavy chassis and transmission combined with the lack of reserve buoyancy mean they sink quickly.
From Washington Times • May 5, 2020
While the rest of us waver and debate and hesitate, these guys pour everything into their instruments with no reservations — a lack of reserve that I needed to learn.
From Salon • Jul. 22, 2012
He stopped, surprised at his own lack of reserve, at the freedom with which, to this friend of an hour, he spoke his inmost heart.
From Short Stories for English Courses by Mikels, Rosa Mary Redding
Various factors—primarily occupational situations, physical condition, and lack of reserve training—operate to erode this force, and those considered useful, or trained, reserves constitute one-half or less of the group.
From Area Handbook for Bulgaria by Baluyut, Violeta D.
What will the cold and unsympathetic and critical reader remark of the unmaidenly lack of reserve which prompted those last few lines?
From Marion's Faith. by King, Charles
