The phrase "sorely wanting" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to express a strong need or lack of something.
Example: "The project was sorely wanting in adequate funding, which hindered its progress."
Alternatives: "greatly lacking" or "desperately in need".
To date, he is sorely wanting.
But there is an increasing recognition that the governance of financial institutions needs to be reviewed carefully (the British authorities have already initiated just such an exercise).One obvious area of scrutiny will be the quality and composition of bank boards, which were found sorely wanting in many cases.
This history has been either forgotten — or willfully blocked out — to such an extent that a period marked by rising civil-rights conflict is now routinely trotted out by some 2012 declinists as a Platonic baseline of American unity, centrism, and fairness against which today's America can be found so sorely wanting.
At the time, he said he was "less than perfect," but added that "when all I did for good is put in the balance against all I did for ill or failed to do at all, I hope that future generations will not find me sorely wanting".
Notwithstanding the considerable attention placed on creating meaningful opportunities for public participation in environmental assessment (EA), many participants and those who have reviewed participation processes often find practice sorely wanting.
Our colleague sorely wanted to give the classic answer.
But he sorely wanted to try for a third term.
We will hold on to what you gave us forever-but we so sorely want more.
It would offer an excuse some Iranians might sorely want to throw out the nuclear inspectors and renounce the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
Sad for Simba Wrong vintage ReprintsThough some of the protesters are unemployed criminals taking advantage of the lawlessness, most of them sorely want to improve their poor conditions.
