Sentence examples for is somehow lacking from inspiring English sources

Without the influence of gay culture, he says, rock music is somehow lacking.

Lurking beneath is a sense of probity and steely resolve, the idea that the person who hasn 't already "got over it" is somehow lacking in inner purpose.

There is a lot of brittle dialogue that doesn't convincingly capture the febrile and shallow world of Ward; this portrayal of his coterie is somehow lacking in human authenticity.

"John Henry Days" contains a comic scene in which one of J. Sutter's journalistic colleagues refers to the inevitable disappointment of a writer's second novel, which "recapitulates some of the first's themes" and is "somehow lacking".

But there also seems to be a yearning for more naturalness to childbirth, that most natural of life's events, and a feeling by some women that the emotional support that they crave in pregnancy is somehow lacking.

"Girl" isn't sexist every single time it's used, but when it is used day-in, day-out to signify that the female of the species is somehow lacking, and that the worst thing that could happen to a man or boy – to any of us in fact – is to be like a girl, then it does have an effect.

Furthermore, the insinuation that without paid employment our lives are somehow lacking erodes the value of parenting in general.

The prevailing – if unspoken – view was that if you needed to use the net to find a partner, you were somehow lacking, or weird, or both.

The more I see of Batumi, the more I like it; there's an energy and self-confidence here that was somehow lacking in Tbilisi.

So ingrained is our sense that universities are somehow lacking if they omit these things from their curricula, it has become vaguely blasphemous to assert that they shouldn't teach students the skills they need at work.

To claim that Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo are somehow lacking something as footballers seems almost perverse.