Sentence examples for are distinctly lacking from inspiring English sources

Many of Hollywood's cops and criminals are distinctly lacking in substance – yet screenwriters needn't look too far for inspiration.

They are distinctly lacking in many areas but particularly up front, where they have the worst conversion rate in the league, scoring with just 4.6% of their chances.

In fact, Mountain Man are distinctly lacking in facial hair, being three women with access to the best depilatory products money can buy, but they are currently receiving rapturous acclaim in those self-same journals for their sparse, near a cappella music of haunting, hymnal beauty.

As a spectacle, however, the opening minutes were distinctly lacking.

This proposition, too, is distinctly lacking in perspective.

But for Syrians, the holiday spirit was distinctly lacking.

Not surprisingly, the detail of how this might work is distinctly lacking.

It's distinctly lacking in all the cliched Christmas flavours – definitely one for all the mixed-peel haters out there.

In the 1820s, Grimes reminds us, time spent eating was time taken away "from the serious business of making money," and Manhattanites were distinctly lacking in culinary sophistication.

Sentimental regret that the marriage did not turn out to be a happily ever-after love story is distinctly lacking, as is any sense that Murdoch, the one who, after all, filed first, had the upper hand.

The label gamely tackled the new "balloon" shape for evening, with stiff taffeta onion-shaped skirts worn with fine wool polonecks, but the result, while striking, was distinctly lacking in glamour and sex appeal.