Ladyhawke have great ideas and a terrific lack of irony/self-awareness not heard since Now That's What I Call Music Vol 2. Parts of the album helped me glimpse the winter mornings of my schooldays, me with cold toast and syrup, back burning against a radiator, while Pat Benatar's Tropico drilled a hole in my youth.
Both starting pitchers, Dave Burba and Brad Radke, had terrific games but lacked run support.
And Daniel Craig isn't a movie star, except perhaps as 007; he's an actor, and a terrific one, but one who is utterly lacking charisma, a sense of mystery, of any identity beyond the contours of the script.
Although this can be a salutary approach, especially for beginning directors, in Mr. Corman's films the shots often look like terrific ideas for shots, with a little, indefinable something lacking in their execution.
He continually got ahead of hitters with early strikes, he had a terrific curveball and he displayed the confidence he had been lacking.
Nunn's revival is full-lunged with terrific vocal performances, particularly from Waddingham, but it often feels lumbering and effortful, technically impressive but lacking in joy and warmth.
Although the noodles in the ramen dishes ($9 to $15) had a terrific mouth feel, the broth on occasion lacked spirit.
Newcastle boss Alan Pardew: "I was proud of the second half because we were terrific, but in the first half we lacked belief and I was shocked at how we played.
Although no generation lacks warts, our 20-somethings are terrific.
All this terrific reportage, however, cannot obscure Easton's fundamental problem: she lacks an overarching argument.
