Sentence examples for lacking in romance from inspiring English sources

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NewYorker8 finds the book "a tad too self-abnegating as well as utterly lacking in romance" ("certainly the sex was bad" — oh, for the little trollop), and wonders what Celine might have done with the material.

By Amy Davidson Sorkin January 22 , 2014Reading through the indictment of Bob McDonnell, the former governor of Virginia, and his wife, Maureen, one gets the same feeling as when hearing about a particularly low-grade political sex scandal — the kind marked by petty desperation and lacking in romance.

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Unambiguous question markers such as the Latin particles -ne, nonne, and num are lacking in most Romance standards; popular speech, though relying everywhere principally upon intonation, often has developed new particles to reinforce interrogation.

"The music of the night has hit something of a sour note: Critics are calling the screen adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's popular musical histrionic, boring, and lacking in both romance and danger," the consensus read.

Eager to attempt something more artistically ambitious, Darabont set to work on an adaptation of Shawshank, crafting a screenplay which was low on action, big on characterisation, and unfashionably lacking in car chases, romance, or explosive special effects.

Bottomley, however, was quite critical of his work and believed his loggia was too symmetrical and lacking in the quality of picturesqueness and romance that the rest of the house displayed and proposed an octagonal stairway be added on the outside corner of the loggia.

They're complex, fragrant and flavorful, lacking in the bitter qualities that can spoil any romance.

Rather lacking in fizz.

People justifiably find the Bible lacking in depictions of what we might understand as 'romance', with all the flowers, poems, candlelit dinners, and affectionate love.

What it lacks in action and romance, it makes up for in historical significance.

Between's users presumably think the cynics lack romance in their souls.Revenue will come from advertising.

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