Sentence examples for of a certain lack from inspiring English sources

He took my excessive interest in this one game as proof of a certain lack of imagination, I'm pretty sure.

This essentially labour-saving procedure is evidence of a certain lack of patience with the workings of sonata form as hitherto practiced.

In spite of a certain lack of clarity in Bolzano's explication, it is obvious that his concept of entailment is of great relevance not only for the philosophy of empirical sciences but also with respect to proof theory.

Using the Internet as a strategic marketing tool and taking advantage of a certain lack of clarity in existing online fundraising rules, Dean was able to tap into a rich vein of discontent and a willingness to articulate that with small political donations.

It smacked of a certain lack of self-esteem.

It doesn't make those of us who are political junkies all that happy because of a certain lack of fireworks.

If you had to highlight a single reason why Barlow's solo career initially flopped, you might alight on a certain lack of charisma.

Perhaps the fact that the entire work was not on view accounted for a certain lack of depth, but a fragmentary structure seemed natural to its penetrating images.

The authoritativeness goes with a package of characteristics: a certain lack of professionalism ("I scribble anywhere," she says), an airy claim that she's so hopeless with figures she doesn't even know how old she is (late 50s), all topped off with a firm, no-nonsense morality.

The coldness of this remark shows a certain lack of reflection and total misunderstanding of what is actually happening.

"So we reach the counterintuitive conclusion," he said, "that the optimal way to control movement allows a certain amount of fluctuation and noise" — a certain lack of control.