While the benevolent Horologists "inherit resurrection as birthright" — they live natural lives and die like normal humans, and then come back as someone else — the sinister Anchorites lack this gift for metempsychosis, and must kill humans, ideally children, in order to drink their blood, or, in the proper lingo, "decant" the victim's soul into "Black Wine," which temporarily staves off aging.
But he lacks the gift for sketching landscape and character in a few sure strokes.
On the page, events are recounted, in the first person, by an older Elio, gazing backward, but Chalamet's Elio lacks the gift of hindsight.
He has a keenly developed sense of where the political centre ground lies and of the electoral advantages available to a party that occupies it, but he lacks the gift of persuasion that will carry his party with him or convince much of the country that his motives are sincere.
Unlike Clinton, who could draw on a huge pool of friends for advice, Gore lacked the gift, or the patience, for showing gratitude, for keeping in close touch.
She had often said that she wished that she were able to sing and was very disappointed when she realized that she lacked the gift.
Apart from the empathy they encourage for those who lack the gift of sight, what Cottin and Faría have done so well is to remind readers that in life we're all in the dark a good part of the time, and that at such times imagination can serve as a third eye — the eye we need.
Groh is less prone to bombast, but he also lacks Parcells' gift for delivering a well-timed zinger with a message attached.
I don't think it will surprise anyone, least of all Bartlett, to say that he lacks Shakespeare's gift for figuration and metaphor.
But trading on his access to the top in pop has introduced a hurdle, B. Howard noted, drawing the assumption that he lacks real gifts.
