Institutional memory is lacking, these former officials said, and mistakes and contradictions easily slip through the cracks.
Juan Mata's arrival at Manchester United could lift the rest of the squad and generate the creativity they are clearly lacking, says former defender Gary Neville after the £37.1m capture of the Spanish midfielder.
Kidd's musing was hypothetical, but it was a warning to a team that is 35-18, still ahead of the Celtics by five games in the Atlantic Division, but clearly lacking its former swagger.
We ran into old friends at the security checkpoint; tried out the new, shiny food stands at the modern Stadium; and were glad to see that Monument Park and other vestiges of the old edifice were still extant, even though some features were in different places and seemed, as in the case of Monument Park, squeezed in and lacking their former grace.
Though Desperate Housewives finished its most recent season as the top-rated scripted show in prime time, the soapy series was lacking its former fizz.
While the definitive studies are lacking, the former view received support from a 2004 meta-analysis of 13 small studies.
Saskin and Chaney both found the performance lacking; the former wrote that "something about this version falls flat", and Chaney gave it a "B−" and said it "wasn't as soaring as it could have been", though "Rachel and Tina's bonding moment was sweet" and she liked "the way it took us from hour one into hour two and Nationals".
However, whereas this cluster appears twice in Atlantic salmon, the second cluster in zebrafish, tetraodon and medaka (hereafter Cluster 2) is characterized by a different set of shared genes; specifically, the presence of Aquaporin-8 and Rho-GTPase-activating protein, although tetraodon is lacking the former and zebrafish is lacking the latter.
"Aspirational" plots lack their former appeal, says DealBook.
Today the mirror may lack its former mystical significance, but it is no less prized for its decorative qualities.
