Sentence examples for moments lacking from inspiring English sources

But these moments were surrounded by lots of other moments, lacking in singularity and intensity of purpose — as when Ms. Elmo adopted a Southern accent and narrated an all-but-impossible-to-hear story before dropping the microphone and exiting the room to end the show.

Precisely because he has come so very close — leading in the national polls for two weeks, just a point or two off in the swing states he needs to win at various moments, lacking only some final hinge moment or stroke of luck — if he ultimately loses it's hard to imagine him being remembered as dismissively as most failed contenders tend to be remembered.

Purely comic moments lack the sparkle of Rossini.

But the film is not especially scary, and even its boo! moments lack a visceral shock.

Mr. West needn't have worried: even Mr. Legend's bombastic moments lacked oomph.

Not that the quieter moments lack deliberation and soulfulness here, but the rousing choruses provide periodic jolts of excitement that easily support the longer spans.

EH Mass support and mass dynamism is at the moment lacking in the Labour party.

Any single tenet is sufficient for natural selection to occur. 2 Natural selection works in the moment, lacking forethought.

So the big moment lacked a sense of reality.

The moment lacked even a whisper of the grace that had made his voice so powerful on Governors Island.

Middle Eastern fiction at the current moment lacks a Jane Austen who could win over an American female readership.