Sentence examples for lacking the edge of from inspiring English sources

Maybe lacking the edge of old, but he's clever.

Burdened by expectations and lacking the edge of being an underdog, the Nets have faltered.

Evelyn Waugh once described Vile Bodies as "rather like a PG Wodehouse novel, all about bright young people", but Wodehouse lacks the edge of Waugh.

This series might lack the edge of India-Pakistan encounters from yesteryear, but it certainly won't be "war minus the shooting", and that can only be a good thing.

Bernal lacks the edge of wolfish cruelty that the role requires, but he sounds nicely mordant in his running commentary ("Communists hate to work. They'd rather burn churches. It makes them feel more alive"), and he keeps pace with the movie's changes of gear.

But oddly (given that the plot involves a kind of temporal exchange programme) we learn nothing of how Lizzie is getting on in west London, and the drama lacks the edge of terrified uncertainty that gave Life on Mars its extra emotional depth.

will not do well on clouds that lack the edge of advanced HPC architectures.

Upon analysis of the reacted Cr III) phase on the Pd-BnM, the Cr K edge XANES spectra bear more resemblance to those previously reported for Cr(OH 3 and CrOOH [65,66], lacking the edge feature of the spinel FeCr2O4 standard presented here.

Though constantly sharp and amusing in its choice of targets, the film "lacks the manic edge of some of Mr. Waters's earlier movies" (Stephen Holden).

"Cecil B. DeMented" is consistently amusing and smart in its choice of targets, but it lacks the manic edge of some of Mr. Waters's earlier movies.

Even if Argentina-Germany lacks the inherent edge of Argentina-England, there has been plenty of edge this week.