Sentence examples for lacking thrust from inspiring English sources

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Its own rocket, though, perilously lacking thrust, stands a chance of making it only it if its crew is reduced to a single cosmonaut – and the celebrated Yuri Gagarin is dead, killed on a training flight in his MiG-15.

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Unlike most murids, copulatory behavior lacks intravaginal thrusting, the intromission thrust is more intense than the dismount, there is no lock, and ejaculation occurs with every thrust.

The trees lack the thrust that others have at that period and the colors do not quite have the explosive vigor that makes the greatest Derain landscapes irresistible.

The orchestrations are lush, but, thanks to the arranger and conductor Carlos Franzetti, they never lack rhythmic thrust; some songs, particularly the Ginastera ballad "Vidala," cry out for standard status.

We are, too – and would do more if he'd trim this set, which sometimes lacks forward thrust, and on one occasion (a routine about Rwandan gorillas) seems more like interesting chat than comedy.

Soloist Frank Braley, highly regarded in his native France and looking like a musketeer, was most poetic in the Adagio assai yet, overall, lacked the thrust to carry the work off with total conviction.

The last time around we were worried about the Soviets–and didn't know that they lacked the thrust power to hit us.

But UARS was built in an era when engineers envisioned the space shuttle routinely returning scientific spacecraft, and it lacks the thrust capacity to be placed on a path for controlled reentry.

The Ballet Theater dancers move with their whole torsos, lacking the urgent earthy thrust of the Graham diaphragm.

The two budgets he has overseen so far have lacked an unambiguous thrust for growth, despite some welcome initiatives.

It lacks the hard thrust and steely chassis of Refn and Gosling's last film, Drive, opting instead for a kind of rolling thunder of ambient violence.

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