Sentence examples for utterly wanting from inspiring English sources

This was a very narrow and hardly noble approach – and one found utterly wanting when confronted with the tumult that has erupted in North Africa and the Middle East.

Karl Marx, no less, ridiculed George in 1881 for being "utterly backward" in wanting to tax landowners instead of the rising captains of industry.

Opening this meeting with an apology to the trans community, Hunt seems utterly sincere in wanting to find a way for Stonewall to work for or alongside trans people in future.

Utterly destroyed but wanting to be cool about it, Trump gestures at the cameras before leading Justin into his den of lies.

Ms Bennett accused Mr Farage of wanting to "utterly demonise" migrants.

But a batsman of the highest quality and a leader his team utterly respect and want to follow.

She is utterly happy; she wants for nothing; she doesn't complain; she's not selfish or jealous or needy: she's just content and perfect and loved.

"Perhaps never in history has a more utterly unprepared folk wanted to go to the city," Wright wrote.

Not because broccoli is hard to grow – it wants utterly consistent conditions, regular watering, lots of food and no overcrowding – but because it bores me.

At the risk of making our jobs utterly impossible, I want to encourage even more writers to take the plunge — because the more stories we get, the higher the quality of what ends up on the page.

As I watched the movie, I was utterly frustrated—I wanted the camera to be a fly on the wall in Judge Sweeney's chambers as she discussed the case with her law clerk, or perhaps with a colleague, so that her reasoning would become part of the film.