Sentence examples for was painfully lacking from inspiring English sources

But what this tournament has had, which was painfully lacking in Korea/Japan and Germany, has been goals in the knockout stages.

City's willingness to fight for victory, by contrast, was painfully lacking as was their willingness to take any defensive responsibility throughout the game.

He was endowed with beautiful features and proved to be a good soldier, but he was painfully lacking in political sense, and he owes his surname of "the Unfortunate" mainly to his own errors of judgment.

But what is painfully lacking is an improvement in bank lending to accompany the revival of financial markets.The latest credit figures paint a dire picture for southern Europe.

Such clarity is painfully lacking in our social care system, where access to care varies hugely from area to area and costs are potentially unlimited.

No, it is not very dramatic and is painfully lacking in team executives acting like game show contestants (see: N.H.L. and N.B.A. trade deadlines), and as we know, it is not actually a deadline.

That's the extent of most Americans' knowledge of what happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, and it's painfully lacking, writes author Susan Southard.

New York is painfully lacking in the indoor skatepark department, and the bowl was the only sure thing to skate during the snowy bullshit months of December through March.

But there are real problems that won't go away and that require serious effort and leadership that is painfully lacking.

Others thought that Zuckerberg, who was painfully shy, lacked the management skills necessary for success.

This is made worse because the video is being watched by people whose knowledge of Uganda is often painfully lacking.