First, coverage of substantive policy positions of the candidates that could inform voters' decisions has been decidedly lacking.
Thursday night's captains' meeting and beer bust on the yacht club grounds had been decidedly lacking in yahooism.
Seeking to calm nerves, the local government posted a question-and-answer section on its Web site, although many of the answers were decidedly lacking in substance.
Compared with the "cottages" going up at Newport and the mansion Frick built himself on Fifth Avenue in New York, Clayton is decidedly lacking in plutocratic verve.
While the first phase of the High Line took you from the boutiques of Gansevoort Street to the center of the gallery district, the newly opened extension lets you off in a neighborhood that's decidedly lacking in amenities.
However, a better first step might be a system of long-term quotas that are transferable between countries, similar to the recently established global carbon-trading scheme.Such a system may well be discussed at the talks in Canada, but the political will to act has so far been decidedly lacking.
Their base at Rothera Research Station, on Adelaide Island, is "decidedly lacking in anything resembling an actual bell", winter base commander George Lemann, said.
And scientists at the British Antarctic Survey at Rothera Research Station, on Adelaide Island resorted to banging pots and pans, after discovering their base was "decidedly lacking in anything resembling an actual bell".
