Sentence examples for Altogether lacking from inspiring English sources

"The spiritual dimension—I have to say this was it not altogether lacking in Penelope's life?

Mr Franceschini, a young-looking 50-year-old, has an incisiveness altogether lacking in his predecessor.

At that point, making estimates will become problematic because relevant points of comparison will be far and few between, or altogether lacking.

It may aggravate an existing disease (urinary-tract infection, peptic ulcer, hepatitis, epilepsy) or arouse one lying latent (hepatitis, fatty liver, Hodgkin's disease), but, to the best of present medicinal knowledge, it is altogether lacking in creative pathogenic powers.

The condition could not properly be described as albinism, the pigment not being altogether lacking: apart from a certain amount of pigment, faintly but evenly extending over the whole of the back, there was a dark spot, about one third of an inch in diameter, behind and above the right gills.

Gradually, Guarneri came to realize that sick people feel better if they get the time to tell their stories to a doctor, an opportunity altogether lacking if the healer is rushing from patient to patient.

…is distinctively different from natural reality and that has a moral dimension that the latter altogether lacks.

Though eloquent and forceful in Parliament and Cabinet, Pitt made no impact in society and altogether lacked the common touch.

The injustice and the suffering he endured — and endured with excellent humor and composure — provided him with a moral currency, which he otherwise altogether lacked, in the culture of the PPP.

By contrast, the shifting coalitions of Justices who formed the majorities in post-Sullivan decisions were, for various reasons, being slowly pulled toward the idea that Sullivan had implicitly held that government altogether lacks the power to attach liability to the publication of statements on matters of public concern, even when they are published for the purpose of injuring another.

One line of response to such concerns is simply to bite the bullet: dogs, babies and the like might altogether lack higher order thought, but that's no problem for the theory because, indeed, they also altogether lack feelings (Carruthers 1989).