Sentence examples for thoroughly lacking in from inspiring English sources

The result is a language thoroughly lacking in nuance and that's the point.

He puts a muscularity into his work that I find thoroughly lacking in food writing.

He wears a tough-guy masculinity but is actually a coward who picks on women, demeans minorities and is thoroughly lacking in human decency.

LAST year, when eBay, the on-line market that is taking over the universe, came to Manhattan to put on a show house, it seemed thoroughly lacking in vision.

Just imagine, I suggested, such powers in the possession of a ranting bully who exaggerates and lies without shame — a man who sports a tough-guy facade but is in fact a coward who picks on women, demeans minorities and is thoroughly lacking in human dignity.

Her portraits of Andrew and Nina are thoroughly lacking in sympathy, despite the horrors they have suffered at the hands of their father, and their father in turn is such a comic-strip villain that it's hard to think of him as a flesh-and-blood human being.

This means that all reductions for the next 20 years could be accounted for in a system thoroughly lacking integrity, one that allows American polluters to go about business as usual without making their own reductions.

Only distant church officials buy into the so-called miracles she has so arduously and calculatedly performed; as seen through the eyes of Father Damien and her other neighbors at Little No Horse, she emerges as a thoroughly manipulative creature, lacking in forgiveness, compassion and all the other saintly virtues.

In fact, my fellow college applicant, right now you may be severely lacking in sleep, thoroughly disheveled by the amount of work that you have to go through.

Breed standards for Labradors considers a true Dudley to be a disqualifying feature in a conformation show Lab, such as one with a thoroughly pink nose or one lacking in any pigment along with flesh coloured rims around the eyes.

Was there ever a romantic occasion so lacking in spontaneity, so thoroughly unromantic in every way?