Sentence examples for Lacking in substance from inspiring English sources
It was utterly lacking in substance – legal, moral or otherwise.
Proudly worn on its sleeve, but somewhat lacking in substance and subservient to self-interest.
There are those who see his films as pretentious, as lacking in substance, as self-indulgent.
The Singapore summit was a mesmerizing spectacle utterly lacking in substance.
On Thursday, Vice President Bush and White House officials described the overtures as lacking in substance.
Many critics scorned it, finding the play lacking in substance and the execution overly slick.
Full of energy and a natural gregariousness--but completely lacking in substance--Blagojevich won every election he entered.
What HappyOrNot's gas-station data lacked in substance, though, they made up for in volume.
What it lacks in substance it makes up for in sublime spectacle.
Morally, Death Race 2000 had the upper hand, but what this lacks in substance it makes up for in volume, not to mention length, squeezing a 79-minute premise into a two-hour-11-minute movie with patience-testing results.
None of this jells, but, Janet Maslin wrote in The New York Times, "what Mr. Anderson lacks in substance is offset by his great skill with actors, his gift for shaping resonant little individual vignettes and his extraordinary intuition".
