Sentence examples for novel lacking from inspiring English sources

Mendes's film is a lesser thing than Yates's novel, lacking the book's biting wit and larger resonances.

The stylistic stripping away of love leaves this novel lacking in the sustained intensity of The Bluest Eye or Beloved.

Near the beginning of the novel, lacking his own book, Harry is given an old potions textbook filled with many annotations and recommendations signed by a mysterious writer; "the Half-Blood Prince".

A large proportion (50%) of the putative ORFs in AbSV remains entirely novel, lacking detectable homology to any known sequences.

Although these motifs contain binding preferences of well-characterized TFs, most of them are novel, lacking any database matches.

This isn't to say that the novel lacks beauty.

This is not to say that the novel lacks pleasing craft.

At the same time her novel lacks a certain narrative weight.

What the novel lacks in emotional depth, it makes up for in personality and sheer wackiness".

But the novel lacks a single likable character and too often runs aground on stilted writing.

In Commentary, Podhoretz complained that the novel lacked development and that its exuberance was forced.