Sentence examples for lacking weight from inspiring English sources

Only Zeljko Lucic, lacking weight in the title role, remains from the first performance, at which Paolo Carignani conducted with crisp pace.

It was an odd mix of the period informed – lean, wiry, with sharp inner voices, including nice forward woodwinds, but lacking weight at the lower end – and the haltingly old fashioned with some rather awkward accommodations of breathing space for singers and a final chorus which didn't quite take flight.

Wrote Times critic Robert Lloyd, "As a stage actress, there was no way to regard her as anything but an amateur -- good enough, certainly, to convey the meaning of her lines, and sometimes better than that, but lacking weight and substance and the shadings she can bring to a song".

But as a stage actress, there was no way to regard her as anything but an amateur -- good enough, certainly, to convey the meaning of her lines, and sometimes better than that, but lacking weight and substance and the shadings she can bring to a song.

Family carers approach to deciding what was a desired intervention and what was futile, was closer to a dictionary definition of futility as not just something ineffective or useless but something lacking weight or importance – something frivolous, lacking purpose.

Although at this point strong and definitive evidence that weight loss in obese patients (BMI>30 kg m−2) with breast cancer will improve cancer outcomes is lacking, weight reduction and increased physical activity may well achieve the objective and should also have a positive effect on comorbid conditions such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

But on reflection this charge lacks weight.

This missing undercurrent means the story lacks weight.

Deborah Dawn, exquisite in the dream scene of "Billy the Kid," also lacked weight as the Pioneer Woman.

But the performance as a whole lacked weight, seeming underpowered in both sound and emotion.

The rhetoric of pro-lfe-as-pro-woman might also lack weight because the vast majority of those spouting it lack conviction.