Sentence examples for lacking conviction from inspiring English sources

Lacking conviction, by contrast, was another able singer, Bruce Sledge Don Ottavioo), who has a solid tenor voice but did not seem to enjoy it much.

If the home side's play was slow and ineffective, lacking conviction in front of goal, it clearly could not be the injured captain's fault.

Even when investors did place their bets, they were far more hesitant to take big risks -- something known on Wall Street as lacking conviction.

It was a display lacking conviction and, despite some encouraging individual showings, notably from James Graham and Sam Tomkins, too much time was spent defending once England had gained a significant advantage.

"Far from lacking conviction," said the late Roy Jenkins — the Labor politician who became a founder of the Social Democrats, and who originally admired Mr. Blair — "he has almost too much".

President Bush's campaign is following an aggressive and precise 90-day media strategy to define Senator John Kerry as indecisive and lacking conviction, with a coordinated blitz of advertisements, speeches and sound bites, senior campaign advisers said this week.

Their writing lacked conviction.

Curiously, his delivery lacked conviction.

But his answer lacks conviction.

"Bachelet lacks conviction," he says.

Its exhortation seemed to lack conviction.