Sentence examples for top lacking from inspiring English sources

Generally, there seems to be a low tolerance for anything that is eccentric, over the top, lacking in traditional skills or simply forgotten.

The first prototype differed slightly from later examples in: retaining standard Su-27 vertical stabilizers without the cropped top; lacking a fire-control system; having a three-tone grey/blue camouflage scheme, along with minor differences.

White-chocolate bread pudding came in the form of two dense, heavy logs; limoncello crème brûlée, barely browned on top, lacked the crunchy sweet carapace of the properly burned custard.

Intricately embroidered copper tops lacked any sense of ostentation.

Mezzos have no such luxury, and when mezzos try to convert to soprano and fail, it's usually because their tops lack the requisite shining authority.

Their tops lack the know-how, never do they get down into the dirt and learn the hard way".

As well as losing its main enemy, it had to face some embarrassing revelations about continuing communist infiltration of its ranks, while at the same time adapting to a new set of threats, from Balkan wars to loose nukes.A decade of budget cuts followed, along with infighting at the top, lack of oversight and, as a result, further scandals.

Many other firms in American Lawyer's top 100, lacking their pricing power, maintained profits only by cutting headcount.

The departures were often criticized for being over the top, for lacking the form-follows-function restraint and understated elegance of the predecessors he revered.

(E ) Schematic of chimeric constructs encoding the β-globin opening reading frame (cyan) followed by the DUX4 3′ UTR (purple) containing (top) or lacking (bottom) the second intron of DUX4 's 3′ UTR (Intron 2).

He does acknowledge, though, that English football has something the French top league lacks – unpredictability.