Sentence examples for lackluster compared to from inspiring English sources

Although the ballroom was packed with more than 1,100 people summoned by the gala chairman, Philip B. Miller, the chief executive of Saks Fifth Avenue, to raise money for Lighthouse International, which provides services for the blind, most revelers appeared lackluster compared to Mr. Blass's coterie of society dance partners.

Watch's content lineup is still lackluster compared to YouTube, Netflix, or even Snapchat Discover.

Indeed, its launch lineup was lackluster compared to the Dreamcast's, and for about six months after launch, the best game to be found on Sony's monolithic console was FantaVision, a firework-based puzzle game that, while impressive, was hardly indicative of the PS2's abilities.

Richa Poudyal, legislative affairs director for the CU Student Government, said local races can seem lackluster compared to national elections, so many students just aren't as interested in voting this year -- or they don't know enough about the issues or candidates to feel like they're casting an informed ballot.

While there's no beating the breadth of Facebook's user base, its image-hosting tools are surprisingly lackluster compared to other options in this article.

While the jobs report was lackluster, particularly compared to expectations that the economy might add closer to 200,000 jobs, many economists said the latest data was unlikely, on its own, to cause Federal Reserve officials to back away from plans to begin easing its stimulus policies.

What's more, one may wonder if there's an inherent inefficiency with web apps: The necessity to run JavaScript and the like instead of native code, the need for cross-platform compatibility and lackluster APIs compared to the ones available to native apps limit what can be done with web apps.

Maybe the missing persons case feels lackluster when compared to the string of other crime-driven series plucked from the bowels of a dark Ozarkian underbelly.

The Wii controls are clumsy and badly-executed (especially now that Metroid Prime 3 is out), the graphics are lackluster compared even to other Wii games, and the narrative is the same "Rah-rah heroic young men of the Allies off to fight the Axis, and also war is hell" stuff as 99percentt of all World War II dramatizations in every medium.

The amount of moves available has been described as low even compared to lackluster titles such as WWF Attitude.

Shaw had lackluster returns of less than 3 percent, compared to the industry average of 10 percent.