Sentence examples for Mildly lacking from inspiring English sources

Mr Brown is, to put it mildly, lacking in sincerity.

Members of his band thought otherwise: the words were too blunt, even mildly scolding, lacking the buoyant bravura of his enduring message songs; the arrangement was a bit ham-fisted, and audiences weren't taking to it.

The girl is mildly retarded, lacks comprehensive medical records, and is being reared by a single mother with no network of family or friends.

Much of the music is chromatic, mildly dissonant and strikingly lacking in aggression.

The down-regulation of these CLIPS may also explain the high expression of HSPs as the latter are essential for survival in Δ SSB1/2 or Δ GIMc deleted cells and mildly beneficial in cells lacking the RAC complex [ 82].

Although ap is expressed in the presumptive notum of the developing wing disc, the phenotypic appearance of the adult dorsal thorax is only mildly affected in flies lacking any ap activity (e.g., ap DG8/ap DG3 or homozygous ap DG8).

However, HR was also mildly suppressed when cells were lacking PARP2 or APLF (Supplementary Figure 9B).

The role of D2 in skeletal muscle is underscored by the fact that animals lacking D2 expression (Dio2−/−) show a mildly hypothyroid pattern of muscle gene expression  [41].

► Mice lacking talin2 are viable and fertile with only a mildly dystrophic phenotype.

To put it mildly, though, the letter lacks Twain's bite; it even praises Amazon.

Consider a child or a mildly retarded patient who lacks the capacity to make a sophisticated medical decision because she cannot fully grasp the complex consequences of the available options, or because, if left to her own devices, she would merely choose impulsively.