Sentence examples for is plainly lacking from inspiring English sources

But the political will is plainly lacking as well.The same timidity makes the government balk at changing Italy's over-generous state pensions scheme.

However, a nutrition component is plainly lacking.

What was plainly lacking, long before the barbarian invasions had done their work, long before economic dislocations became serious, was an inner go.

Almost entirely they are uncourteous -- but this is plainly from lack of intelligence and refinement.

He gets on well with Mr Djindjic, who says he is willing to talk about a new Yugoslav federation in which Serbia and Montenegro are both independent in all but name.Dynamic Mr Djindjic is plainly gaining strength, yet he lacks Mr Kostunica's popularity.

"This case falls in the murkier area in which Congress is plainly aware of the lack of statutory authority and has thus far failed either to create or reject it," the New York judge wrote.

The decline in values Mr Brooks laments is plainly a response to a hopeless lack of economic opportunity for the working classes.

Using Twitter to teach children all that communication must, by definition, lack depth of any sort, and is plainly mad.

But the intimation that this event lacked the social relevance of a Joe Louis fight, or Muhammad Ali's very existence, is plainly wrong.

Let's not beat about the bush: this is, plainly and simply, child abuse, even if it comes from ignorance rather than a lack of love.

Estlund then enquires as to whether the lack of consent under certain circumstances mightn't similarly be nullified in cases where it is plainly wrong not to consent.