Newt was choosing to go to the moon, and yet did so in terms utterly lacking in wonder.
But while I enjoyed its low-key, lo-fi invention, it seems oddly pitched and lacking in wonder for its target age range.
David Brooks worries about "tradition," but the 222 million women in developing nations lacking contraception wonder how they'll care for another child when they can't feed the seven they already have.
Bell writes of "the enormous expansion in the numbers of people who move up the consumer ladder, and lacking experience wonder where they stand in the social ladder.
As it is, The Emerald Atlas is strangely lacking in both wonder ("So fine, magic was real," is Kate's reaction when first greeted with it) and proper danger.
"Why are all these places lacking colour?" Pearce wonders.
If you're lacking hips and wondering why, it's probably because you are too efficient and hastened last summer to clip your roses' spent flowers.
But our note taking during last night's broadcast has left us woefully lacking and we wondered if you would be kind enough to tell us again the name of the 'endings' on the end of a chromosome.
Is it any wonder that, lacking the basics of life, they advocate liberal economic policies to relieve their own and others' suffering?
These are biographical slices, connected cameo scenes, and there are times when The Wonder Spot, lacking the structure of a novel, slightly loses its grip on the reader.
Without you, my life would have been SO very different, and lacking in so much wonder, imagination & magic as a result.
