Sentence examples for he lacks one from inspiring English sources

He's an idiot and we count his fuck-ups on an episode by episode basis, but he lacks one key ingredient: poor motivation.

** Unable to settle on a purpose — unable, even, to realize that he lacks one — he becomes a polite, obedient employee.

Burns has all the impulses of a biographer, though he lacks one crucial biographer's trait: the arrogant desire to impose a narrative on the stray bits and pieces of a life that wash up on the shores of biographical research.

And he held this position although he lacks one of the crucial qualifications of a modern diplomat: he cannot speak English.

Unable to settle on a purpose — unable, even, to realize that he lacks one — he becomes a polite, obedient employee.

But he lacks one thing they have: the direct support of the voters.

The conventional wisdom about this meeting of 154-pound champions is that De La Hoya will be the boxer and Vargas, though he lacks one-punch knockout power, will be the puncher.

But he lacked one key symptom of thallium poisoning – peripheral neuropathy, pain or numbness in his fingers and feet.

Even his fans, of which I'm one, would have to admit that he lacked one or two core requirements of the genre, though.

One leaked document from his house suggests the opposite is true: that Bin Laden sought an alliance with Pakistan a year ago, meaning that he lacked one, at least until then.

Unlike his thriving counterpart, he lacked one critical factor: control.