Sentence examples for lack of outright from inspiring English sources

According to Will Greenwood, Alex Goode is the best player in England, but his lack of outright pace holds him back as an international full-back, particularly when you look at Mike Brown and Ben Foden.

Tom Keogh of The Seattle Times gave the film 2½ stars out of 4; he praised its novelty and criticized its lack of "outright laughs".

In my work as a mitigation specialist, I am routinely struck by judges' lack of professionalism, outright hostility to defendants and their lawyers, and frighteningly black and white thinking.

But despite the lack of an outright ban local authorities can set their own rules on what is and is not acceptable on council owned land.

She suffered from dysthymia, a chronic form of depression; the lack of encouragement sometimes outright discouragement she received for her work also made her reluctant to compose.

It is also, always, comparative: measured against other people's relative lack of achievement or outright failure.

Like countless St. Petersburgers, the Konyenkos are mired in the communal milieu by inertia, lack of choice and outright poverty.

Elle Baines, 24, Bristol I am ashamed of our reputation for a lack of humanity and outright discrimination – against disabled people, expressing enthusiasm for withdrawing from the European Convention of Human Rights and many other positions taken.

In the United States, lack of comprehension and outright misunderstandings about evolutionary theory are magnified by the lack of public acceptance of evolution (Miller et al. 2006; Nadelson and Hardy 2015).

From encountering displays of tepid awareness of the intersection of gendered and racist bias to a seeming lack of concern and outright dismissal, I have dealt with the deafening silence around our underrepresentation due to this complex equation and white privilege.

The defeatism -- or outright lack of interest -- of the Angel fan is just now dissipating.