Sentence examples for lacked something of from inspiring English sources

The 1985 Bordeaux were early maturing and lacked something of the power and concentration of 1989 and 1990.

The two singers did their best with the scenery, which lacked something of the dark, symbolism of the stage set they had left behind.

But once Laski had arrived no one would have gone; and he contrived, though in evident distress, to make a speech which, if it lacked something of his usual fire, was eloquent and persuasive.

A beginner, she may have lacked something of the technique of more experienced actors, but she had an extraordinary spontaneity, an uninhibited and mercurial range of expression that seemed to burst through the fabric of a drama to make immediate emotional connection with a viewer (a quality that Godard made epochal use of in the movie's final shot).

Without rested captain Michael Clarke and his trusty lieutenant Brad Haddin behind the stumps, Australia lacked something of the ruthlessness that saw them win nine matches in succession against England.

But his image of a collective sexual urge among couples, although vaguely related to the fertility ritual of Stravinsky's scenario, lacks something of an illuminating dimension.

Mr. Davison's gentle singing lacks something of Mr. Anderson's perky rasp but inhabits a mandatory stratospheric range with eminent comfort.

His latest book-length polemic, The Conscience of a Liberal, lacks something of the bite one gets in the columns; but it remains a valuable and thoughtful study that puts a good deal of political and economic history into perspective.

Syphilis may lack something of the romantic aura surrounding tuberculosis in literary history, but it was the illness of choice for the French nineteenth century: Flaubert, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, and Maupassant all suffered from it.

And even William James recognized that "just as an artificially imitated sneeze lacks something of the reality, so the attempt to imitate an emotion in the absence of its normal instigating cause is apt to be rather 'hollow.' " With feigned laughter, the "hollowness" appears to have a neurological basis.

6.58pm GMT Here's Ben Bronx, whose second half report lacks something of the completion of his first half though beggars (and we're certainly that) can't be choosers: "RESULT: GREECE 0-2 SOUTH KOREA: The difference between the two sides was clinical finishing.