The Oberfrankenhalle had to be extensively equipped technically for the project, but even so lacked the capacity for genuine scenic display.
We were less engaged by the peppercorn fettuccine, which combined with mahogany clams and chorizo cubes in a garlic, parsley, olive oil bath, but, even so, lacked verve and pepperiness.
Even so, lack of trust clearly played an important part in the EU referendum, with big differences between who remain and leave voters trusted, and the leave campaign mostly winning the argument.
Even so, lack of PPI data does not explain all cases of low coverage.
Germany did give us a good tournament, even if it so lacked a dominant presence that Zidane, with many votes cast before the final, was sentimentally voted player of the World Cup by the media.
That's something so lacking.
Even so, the lack of a central, supranational authority proved its undoing.
Even so, the lack of urgency about airline security is more the rule than the exception in Washington as America's New War seems less and less new.
I know some of the big names have been unavailable, either through injury or as a result of misbehaviour, but even so the lack of continuity has been astonishing.
But even so, the lack of an adequate social safety-net means that companies will continue to find it hard to close factories and get rid of workers on a large scale.Perhaps the biggest problem for Japan is that its starting-point was so much worse than America's or Europe's, says Alexander Kinmont of Morgan Stanley.
