Sentence examples for lacks ingenuity from inspiring English sources

The hourlong production, which unfolds in a small converted Brooklyn warehouse, lacks ingenuity only in the character of Snow White, who, though played charmingly, is written as a beautiful cipher, like so many fairy-tale princesses.

"So many things are made with advanced machinery," he says, "yet the outcome almost always lacks ingenuity.

Philosophers have not lacked ingenuity in devising answers to this question.

It's one thing for Hollywood to lack ingenuity these days, but why is it spilling over into the game industry?

Simon Price from The Independent accepted that the record was "too professional to be truly terrible", although noted that Diamandis' revamped public image as a "British Katy Perry" lacked ingenuity.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine has found Jackson's consistent inclusion of sex in her music lacking ingenuity, especially in comparisons to other artists such as Prince, stating "while sex indisputably fuels much great pop music, it isn't an inherently fascinating topic for pop music as with anything, it all depends on the artist".

Mike Brennan of Soundtrack, however, said it "lacks the ingenuity of the previous trilogy and the Predator scores, which all shared a strong sense of rhythm in place of thematic content.

Both teams lacked the ingenuity in midfield to break down the opposing defense.

My friend got in trouble, but I got to help marshall the race – feeling smug as fellow chubsters who lacked my ingenuity struggled around the field.

Fulham took advantage of an Aston Villa side limping towards the summer, seven points clear of the drop-zone but badly lacking midfield ingenuity and attacking pace.

They are the least interesting characters on the program, partly because they lack the ingenuity of the fantastic, partly because their lives are meant to be so exemplary, unfrightening, and normal.