Sentence examples for plainly lacking from inspiring English sources

What was plainly lacking, long before the barbarian invasions had done their work, long before economic dislocations became serious, was an inner go.

But the political will is plainly lacking as well.The same timidity makes the government balk at changing Italy's over-generous state pensions scheme.

One immediately appreciates when studying his treatment of these issues a level of detail and sophistication plainly lacking in many of the accounts of causation written in the several centuries after his death.

However, a nutrition component is plainly lacking.

Since the case so plainly lacks merit a wise court would simply throw it out.

It is a gift he has, one which his predecessor so plainly lacked.

Campaign restrictions are only as strong as the F.E.C.'s interest in enforcing them -- an interest Mr. Smith plainly lacks.

The paper noted British cyclist Philip Hindes's sprint team kept their golds, even though the rider was reported as saying he crashed on purpose - words his team later said were "lost in translation".. "Levelling all the accusations at Chinese athletes plainly lacks fairness," said the People's Daily.

And yet, by their responses to our poll – and indeed, to a wide range of issues that YouGov has surveyed in recent months – Ukip supporters plainly lack any such trust, for they invariably display greater anger and suspicion than anyone else towards the very people whose powers they wish to augment.

Radio 4 in particular has become indelibly stained with a kind of self-ironising mateyness that seems to have started on PM and Broadcasting House and which is now everywhere, with presenters' mannered, manufactured goofiness attempting to lend to what they say some kind of appearance of the real that they and their programmes so plainly lack.

As any visitor to the planetarium can plainly see, it lacks every basic feature of an opera house.