Sentence examples for found him wanting from inspiring English sources
Unless I misunderstood her, she found him wanting.
In the seventies, some third-rate critics seemed to encounter his books with an accountant's pencil, tallying "positive" and "negative" portraits of Jews, and sometimes found him wanting.
Though few disputed his stature in Russian repertoire – and he returned to the Soviet Union a number of times after his initial triumph – increasing numbers found him wanting when he strayed elsewhere, into Mozart, or even the American Edward MacDowell.
By Richard Lockridge The New Yorker, January 10 , 1942P. 33 On trying to enlist in the Navy-having once had the applicant and found him wanting, the Navy is not going to take him back.
The New Yorker, January 10 , 1942P. 33 On trying to enlist in the Navy-having once had the applicant and found him wanting, the Navy is not going to take him back.
By Wolcott Gibbs The New Yorker, February 15 , 1941P. 9 The California draft board has weighed James Stewart, the movie-hero and found him wanting; he is 10 pounds too light to be a private in the Army.
She alleges that during their marriage she routinely woke up during the night to find him wanting to have sex with her and was told by Mr Danczuk: "You're my wife, I can have sex with you whenever I want".
It was a Gilbert and Sullivan binge that set me going this time, that and a a very good play about John Ruskin, the visionary art and social critic, and his marriage to Euphemia Gray, a spirited young woman who dared to find him wanting as a husband-companion and a fully realized human being.
(Speaking of gurus: Must Rick Perry refer to Trump, his birther guide, as "the Donald?") Some members of the Administration feuded with him; others found him, for want of a better word, weird.
Hawke found him fascinating and wanted to record his wisdom on camera – Bernstein told him that the key to doing one thing well is the same for doing all things well.
The first time was last year after he walked into oncoming traffic near his grandmother's house; he told the police officer who found him that he wanted to die.
