Sentence examples for embarrassingly lacking from inspiring English sources

In "Ten Songs," he praises the specter of death that he hears in a version of "To Know Him Is to Love Him" by the late Amy Winehouse while dismissing the original 1958 version, by the Teddy Bears, which he finds square and embarrassingly lacking in irony.

Embarrassingly, Athens lacks an official place of worship for Muslims.Archbishop Christodoulos, head of the Greek Orthodox church, to which 98% of the population belongs, is partly to blame.

The BBC's business editor Robert Peston said "perhaps most embarrassingly" RBS lacks what the bank calls the adequate "momentum" to generate the relevant capital it needs simply by generating bigger profits, so it needs to fix the bad assets on its balance sheet by selling them quickly at firesale prices.

Most of Facebook's slides on hate speech and hate groups read like an embarrassingly simplistic CliffsNotes, lacking nuance and revealing the company's apparently slapdash approach to the issue of racial hate.

In 1994 it teamed with Great Plains to create Microsoft Profit, accounting software that was embarrassingly slow and lacked basic payroll functions.

It has been slated almost universally for its embarrassingly obvious lack of imagination.

Sunday's vote was characterized by an embarrassingly obvious lack of public enthusiasm, with trickles of listless voters showing up at polling stations.

Just a few years ago, efforts to construct a new cultural complex downtown, Disney Hall, foundered embarrassingly for lack of money until a last ditch private fund-raising effort got construction moving.

And even before the Iowa caucuses it had become embarrassingly clear that he lacked the qualities required to run for president.

Third, and perhaps most embarrassingly, RBS's business in the round lacks what the bank describes as adequate "momentum" to generate the relevant capital simply by generating bigger profits.

But when it backed down, Mr Abbas was embarrassingly stranded.In any event, he seems to lack a strategy.