Sentence examples for lacking in glamour from inspiring English sources
Sant'Antioco may be lacking in glamour, but it is rich with history.
Diplomacy, about which more cynical quotes exist than any other pursuit except save, perhaps, for journalism, is long winded and risky, full of compromises, gruelling and often lacking in glamour.
Thanks to Raymond Gubbay the company has returned to Shaftesbury Avenue - but where Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates should have rollicked back into the West End, they've arrived tattered, tired and lacking in glamour.
The label gamely tackled the new "balloon" shape for evening, with stiff taffeta onion-shaped skirts worn with fine wool polonecks, but the result, while striking, was distinctly lacking in glamour and sex appeal.
What was lacking in glamour was made up for in comfort and convenience: good reading lamps, an ironing board and, in the fair-sized marble bathroom, a gleaming tub and shower, shaving mirror, hair dryer, clothesline for drying swimsuits and apricot-scented bath toiletries.
She was not, it is worth pointing out, entirely lacking in glamour even before the squad arrived, as she poured the fussy cucumber-flavored bottled water with which the room had been supplied, made an ironical face, and sat cross-legged on the couch in jeans and a sleeveless T-shirt.
What the lodge lacks in glamour it makes up for in rusticity.
The hotel's location, within the concrete canyons of the Financial District, makes up in convenience what it lacks in glamour.
But it turns out that what Mr. Gingrich lacks in glamour or novelty, he makes up for in his sheer imperviousness to humiliation.
In 2006, the Dining section of The New York Times named Kozy Shack rice pudding on a list of "Grocery Gems," and said, "Rice pudding, like baked beans, has slipped out of the culinary spotlight, but this version makes up in flavor what it lacks in glamour".
On a day that began with a bang, fell asleep in the middle and woke up dramatically at the death, Tim Bresnan once again proved that what he lacks in glamour he makes up for with old-fashioned Test class.
