Tchaikovsky's music was dismissed as "lacking in elevated thought," according to longtime New York Times music critic Harold C. Schonberg, and its formal workings were derided as deficient for not stringently following Western principles.
What seems to be lacking in this thought process is that even the most sensitive test imaginable is not going to give a positive result if one does not have Lyme disease, and that the additional antibodies detected by nonvalidated tests are of unproven relevance to the diagnosis of Lyme disease.
There was criticism that maybe Junket was lacking in difference of thought – that it was an echo chamber.
First, he added an ethical dimension that had been largely lacking in Marx's thought; specifically, he held, following the German philosopher Immanuel Kant, that human beings should be treated as ends in themselves and never as means or instruments, whether by capitalists (who used workers as human machines) or by communists (who were prepared to use them as cannon fodder in the future revolution).
In a recent work that constitutes an interesting exception in a context which is on the whole lacking in terms of thought-provoking contributions, Bent Fylvbjerg notes that the literature in the discipline pays very little attention to "uncomfortable knowledge" (Flyvbjerg 2013).
On the other hand, the reaction may demonstrate a kind of political sophistication that many thought was lacking in this community.
They managed to do most of the work themselves, fulfilling their dream of creating a hangout for locals that happened to serve excellent food, with an emphasis on a great Sunday roast, something the trio thought was lacking in the capital.
This is a joke question right BBC? Cameron is as usual talking nonsense and as with most of his 'Big Ideas' they are lacking in any substance and ill thought out.
Sober philosophers have a tendency to ignore such visionary talk as too elevated and lacking in substance to be worth serious thought.
Film critic James Berardinelli of Reelviews Movie Reviews had once said in referring about a particular film, "...in a business climate, courage is the number one characteristic needed by anyone with the goal of fashioning a work that is deliberately thought-provoking but lacking in mass appeal.
