Sentence examples for seems deficient from inspiring English sources

Where the analysis of Reep and Hughes seems deficient is that they seem to have assumed teams should constantly be trying to score.

These lines represent the n=100 cases, in which the approximation seems deficient.

But Mr. McDonald helped her manage the juggling act, and smoothed the way when her paperwork seemed deficient.

But the notion that a generalized Muslim anger about Western ideas could explain violence or politics from Indonesia to Bangladesh, from Iran to Senegal, seemed deficient.

This is trending in the wrong direction and even solutions offered online by people of good will seem deficient.

He also seems oddly deficient in irony, style and dangerous competence — those essential Bond traits.

The film has so much that's good – John Gielgud as Bolingbroke; one of the greatest, most brutal battle scenes of cinema – but in one respect it seems seriously deficient: it lacks laughter, and laughter is Falstaff's essence.

If the account lacks an explanation of why some items and not others go on the list of paradigm works, it seems explanatorily deficient.

She was not an appealing child, but she didn't seem mentally deficient or malformed, either.

But, like Ms. Chastain, she seemed sadly deficient in stage technique, and gave a performance so arch that she didn't merely seem to be playing a little girl lost; she seemed truly to be at sea on stage, and was more or less swallowed up in the busy emptiness of Sean Mathias's listless production.

Her lyrics flowed well, in English and her native tongue, but something about being on stage with lots of lonely instruments sitting behind her, seemed musically deficient or incomplete.