Sentence examples for painfully lacking from inspiring English sources

The problem with pilot projects is that they require an important condition for success that is often painfully lacking in most organizations — slack resources.

Such clarity is painfully lacking in our social care system, where access to care varies hugely from area to area and costs are potentially unlimited.

But what is painfully lacking is an improvement in bank lending to accompany the revival of financial markets.The latest credit figures paint a dire picture for southern Europe.

But what this tournament has had, which was painfully lacking in Korea/Japan and Germany, has been goals in the knockout stages.

The presidential front-runners, the leaders in Congress, the people who turn up on political talk shows -- all seem painfully lacking in a certain quality.

City's willingness to fight for victory, by contrast, was painfully lacking as was their willingness to take any defensive responsibility throughout the game.

View Ti Golf ($35) offered features the others painfully lacked, but it was a battery hog.

But she had both a clear message and the personality to project it, something which he painfully lacks.

In his hurdling of lowered expectations, Arenas has given the Grizzlies more of the depth that they painfully lacked.

Gallery or not, Folkestone is already well on its way to having something that Margate painfully lacks: a permanent collection.

Yet both possess what Mr. Lubovitch's polished reaction to jazz painfully lacks: a certain compelling messiness or strangeness, spontaneity (often as a metaphor for freedom) and the celebration of individuality within a larger group.