Sentence examples for is painfully lacking from inspiring English sources

Such clarity is painfully lacking in our social care system, where access to care varies hugely from area to area and costs are potentially unlimited.

But what is painfully lacking is an improvement in bank lending to accompany the revival of financial markets.The latest credit figures paint a dire picture for southern Europe.

No, it is not very dramatic and is painfully lacking in team executives acting like game show contestants (see: N.H.L. and N.B.A. trade deadlines), and as we know, it is not actually a deadline.

But there are real problems that won't go away and that require serious effort and leadership that is painfully lacking.

New York is painfully lacking in the indoor skatepark department, and the bowl was the only sure thing to skate during the snowy bullshit months of December through March.

City's willingness to fight for victory, by contrast, was painfully lacking as was their willingness to take any defensive responsibility throughout the game.

But what this tournament has had, which was painfully lacking in Korea/Japan and Germany, has been goals in the knockout stages.

He was endowed with beautiful features and proved to be a good soldier, but he was painfully lacking in political sense, and he owes his surname of "the Unfortunate" mainly to his own errors of judgment.

That's the extent of most Americans' knowledge of what happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, and it's painfully lacking, writes author Susan Southard.

This is made worse because the video is being watched by people whose knowledge of Uganda is often painfully lacking.

The problem with pilot projects is that they require an important condition for success that is often painfully lacking in most organizations — slack resources.