Sentence examples for book lack from inspiring English sources

Arch: "Book lack in Ongar".

"A strange and buffer cry", the words that appear on the book, lack the same impact.

My favourite headlines typically involve a play on words, tweaking a well-known expression or quotation, such as "Book lack in Ongar" (funding cuts hit Essex libraries) or "Drop dead, gorgeous" (a feature about office jealousy).

"Book lack in Ongar", about a shortage of resources in Essex libraries, remains one of the all-time great headlines, but it only works if you get the reference to John Osborne's 1956 play Look Back in Anger (or at least it did until Oasis helpfully recorded a song called Don't Look Back in Anger).

But the book lacked perspective.

What the book lacks is some background information.

And yet the book lacks a certain urgency.

Too bad the book lacks cohesion, original thought and passion.

Mr. Gooch's book lacks the dimension of strong literary criticism.

But Cose's book lacks an unsettling title.

Somehow, though, the book lacks drama and texture.