Sentence examples for lacking the heart from inspiring English sources

Many of the novel's other characters are little more than hastily drawn cartoons, lacking the heart and soul of earlier Wagner creations.

The leaders-in-waiting – David Davis, Amber Rudd, Boris Johnson – lacked the heart for a fight.

It has the outward shape of the real thing, but it lacks the heart.

Yet it lacked the heart to defy lobbies which slip through the threadbare tax net.

Even when they know who the dunderheads are, many employers lack the heart to cut them loose.

If you are unclear or wishy-washy, or you lack the heart, they can't follow you.

Julavits has the talent to live up to her ideals, but The Effect of Living Backwards lacks the heart to make us care.

If the assumption from that 32nd-minute juncture was that Slovenia would lack the heart to claw their way back, how wrong that sense was to prove.

Carl Davis, whose scores include that for the World at War documentary series, said a synthesised soundtrack lacked "the heart" of symphonic or instrumental music.

It's not simply that they lack the heart and imagination of Alexander McQueen, or the plodding all-night patience of Azzedine Alaïa.

So ignore the hand-wringing that is sure to splash in newsprint and crackle over the airwaves about how these 3-year-olds, like recent crops, lack the heart of a champion.