Though a skilled violinist and competent composer, Leopold lacked his son's genius.
His son lacks his charisma, experience and political skill and he will have to work to keep his grip on power.
He was disappointed that his sons lacked his ambition.
Though the son lacked his father's great abilities, he maintained the reputation of the firm and, with the aid of his wife, Elizabeth, managed it skillfully.
It cannot be assumed that her eldest son, who lacks his mother's talent for keeping one's mouth shut, will make the same contribution to keeping the kingdom united.
Ira, her husband, is just as sad: "He was lonely and tired and lacking in hope and his son had not turned out well and his daughter didn't think much of him, and he still couldn't figure where he had gone wrong".
While watching Andrea deliberately lose a tennis game, Giovanni also worries that his son lacks a healthy competitive drive.
"He lacked the business sense," his son C. Grant La Farge, an architect of the New York subway system, told The Times when the meager estate was settled.
In 2005, after discovering that his son lacked an interest in reading, Patterson created the Maximum Ride series of science-fiction novels, aimed at young adults but designed to appeal to readers of all ages.
Tommy says his son lacks the level of exposure to other races that was a part of the father's childhood.
The panel concluded that the father's testimony "lacked credibility," finding that his son was too mentally ill to give a reliable account.
