Sentence examples for finds it wanting from inspiring English sources

In "Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster," Thomas investigates the business of designer clothing, leather goods and cosmetics, and finds it wanting.

Now, 51 years later, "The Illusive Eye: An International Inquiry on Kinetic and Op Art" at El Museo del Barrio looks back on that show and finds it wanting.

As he assists in the criminal defense of a 22-year-old Chicagoan being retried as an accessory to murder, Geoghegan re-examines his own career as a civil lawyer and finds it wanting -- not for lack of excitement, but for lack of moral fulfillment.

Do they perpetuate the stereotypes that assault women every day or illuminate some of the more private and at times darker corners of the female psyche, including those moments of searing self-reproach when a woman appraises her appearance and finds it wanting.

It's harder to swallow a feature in the New York Times that takes a second look at the classic British miniseries and finds it wanting.

Some experts and parents find it wanting.

(They had recently barbecued a smelt and found it wanting).

FiveThirtyEight tested that hypotheses and found it wanting.

We have weighed it, measured it and found it wanting.

Letters from readers indicated that they, too, found it wanting.

Mum inspected the place and found it wanting.