Sentence examples for but deficient from inspiring English sources

A psycho-sexual thriller, A Little Life is really a middlebrow gothic sensation, a commercial read for our times, but deficient in almost all the qualities that make lasting fiction.

Later Stanislavsky came to the opinion that the Meiningen approach was successful in creating an external unity of effect but deficient in transforming the internal techniques of the actors.

Even more striking are the limitations of the scientific materialists around her – in particular her occasional lover, Spike, who seems phenomenally clever but deficient in a sense of beauty, and the moneyman behind the institute who might best be described as a hard-hearted philanthropist.

Diets were formulated to provide adequate ruminally degradable protein, but deficient RUP and metabolizable protein supplies.

Weak cellular promoters were effective in T-cell reconstitution, but deficient in B-cell reconstitution.

However, O. glumaepatula, another wild rice species, have SK2 and SK2-like genes, but deficient of SK1.

FIFA's eligibility rules are among soccer's most contested decrees, thanks to the naturalization of foreigners by rich-but-deficient national sides, such as Qatar, as well as the decisions of players born in former colonial powers to play for the countries of their families' origins.

Eight good-looking but academically deficient women choose eight brainy but socially inept male partners.

Nutritionally, she finds "the focus on protein is silly — Americans are anything but protein deficient".

But being deficient does not mean unsafe, Mr. Corzine and Kris Kolluri, the Department of Transportation commissioner, emphasized.

Pellagra, he asserted, arose not from germs, as commonly thought, but from deficient diets.