Sentence examples for finds wanting from inspiring English sources
Does it have a touch of "that tonic wildness" which Isabel finds wanting in the oversophisticated Madame Merle?
It is these defenses of God that Professor Adams, as a believer, looks at in detail -- and finds wanting.
Like Kate in "I Don't Know How She Does It," Egan's protagonist is intensely reliant on a nanny and a husband whose efforts she finds wanting.
Rule out no deal and MPs can heave a deep sigh of relief – except for the ERG Tory revolutionaries clamouring to tear the country up by the roots and the 28% of voters the Guardian/ICM poll finds wanting a no deal.
After noting that direct external threats to the nation did not account for the sustained nature of U.S. internationalism in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, he addresses four other common explanatory factors: power, national security, economic interests, and ideology, each of which he finds wanting.
But Arena also doesn't suffer fools or reporters' questions that he finds wanting.
This approach is found wanting.
All three have been found wanting.
Today's rules have been found wanting.
Its bureaucrats have been found wanting.
