Sentence examples for is lacking substance from inspiring English sources

He is trifling with us, and this show of lo-cal ideas and casual gestures may be full of stuff, but is lacking substance.

He wanted to bid with his extra values, but since his diamonds and hearts were lacking substance, he passed also.

Iraq has readied itself this week for a moment big on symbolism, but, like so much of the war and subsequent occupation, what appears to be big in symbolism is subject to claims that it is lacking in substance.

He levels a number of verdicts along the way: he finds Manet's work uneven; Degas is not the misogynist he's made out to be; and the work of the sole American artist Barnes considers at length, the Swedish-born Claes Oldenburg, is lacking in substance, "a visual gargle".

Herren and Mbogo's critique of our response (Tren and Roberts 2010) to van den Berg (2009) is lacking in substance.

The second topic is lacking in substance".

When substance is lacking, style becomes ever more important.

McKeith's pseudo-academic work is like the rituals of the cargo cult: the form is superficially right, the superscript numbers are there, the technical words are scattered about, she talks about research and trials and findings, but the substance is lacking.

It has been suggested that this substance is lacking in Ptch-deficient tumor cells, which in turn may result in activation of Hh-signaling.

We propose the introduction of a labeling symbol to be used when basic toxicity information about a substance is lacking (Hansson and Rudén 2003).

Shadow secretary of state for education, Lucy Powell, said proposals were lacking in substance and will cause many schools uncertainty.