Sentence examples for was wholly lacking from inspiring English sources

In charisma, he was wholly lacking.

On Friday, Circuit Court Judge Henry Meigs, in Frankfort, Ky., ruled that chemical evidence failed to show the presence of an illegal medication in the colt when he won the race, and that other evidence presented was "wholly lacking in substance & relevant consequence".

Mr. Washington, who still works at the department as an international policy analyst, said that while he was head of counterintelligence he read an administrative report on the investigation of Dr. Lee and believed it "was wholly lacking in any support to identify Dr. Lee as a suspect".

John Simpson, who joined the unit as a pilot officer two months after Hull, recalled finding "a confidence when flying with Caesar that was wholly lacking otherwise".

The will to complete it — among the democratic political parties and the Maoists, as well as in India — appears to be wholly lacking.

Evidence of a specific lesion of the brain or the central nervous system in any way attributable to the presence of alcohol is wholly lacking.

Thus, the amount of predigested ancient information bearing on antecedent events may vary from sophisticated literary to scrupulous epigraphic or may be wholly lacking or largely valueless.

The leeches, as already noted, are wholly lacking in the ability to replace lost segments, whereas the earthworms and various marine annelids (polychaetes) can often regenerate forward and backward.

Since his victory in the Scottish Labour leadership election last Saturday, his timetable has been carefully choreographed, with speeches, events and photo opportunities almost daily, exhibiting an organisational heft and dynamism that the party has been wholly lacking of late.

"Proof is wholly lacking that any of Shakespeare's plays were written after 1604," Charlton Ogburn writes in his 892-page summation of the Oxford case, "The Mysterious William Shakespeare" (1984), which Oxfordians regard as a landmark work.

But it might at least introduce some degree of political debate and competition, which is wholly lacking at the moment, especially if Miss Suu Kyi's party were to be involved.