Sentence examples for are thoroughly lacking from inspiring English sources

Her portraits of Andrew and Nina are thoroughly lacking in sympathy, despite the horrors they have suffered at the hands of their father, and their father in turn is such a comic-strip villain that it's hard to think of him as a flesh-and-blood human being.

He wears a tough-guy masculinity but is actually a coward who picks on women, demeans minorities and is thoroughly lacking in human decency.

Just imagine, I suggested, such powers in the possession of a ranting bully who exaggerates and lies without shame — a man who sports a tough-guy facade but is in fact a coward who picks on women, demeans minorities and is thoroughly lacking in human dignity.

The Obama Administration has sought to return a comprehensive vision to issues such as the Middle East -- addressing many of the festering problems instead of looking for a silver bullet through the invasion of Iraq -- and Pakistan, whose problems are thoroughly integrated with Afghanistan but lacked any strategy beyond military aid.

The result is a language thoroughly lacking in nuance and that's the point.

Main courses are thoroughly butch.

Intermissions are thoroughly buzzy.

Bees are thoroughly honest advertisers.

Their relations are thoroughly investigated.

Both are thoroughly gripping.

They are thoroughly modern.