Sentence examples for which for lack from inspiring English sources
"Which, for lack of a better word, we call love".
The immediate aftermath of Monty was the American coast-to-coast promotional tour which, for lack of an obvious crowd-pulling star in the cast, he was duty-bound to undertake himself.
In 1927 the critic Margaret Law, writing in the magazine Architecture, said the building had "a quality which, for lack of a better word, I can best describe as epic".
The law firm has also filed a motion for a so-called model claims, a German legal procedure which – for lack of US style class-action lawsuits – uses court rulings won by individual investors as templates to set damages for others that are equally affected.
But when the tempos slow down, or the person in charge of choosing songs leans toward the sturdiest stuff, or the rhythm section starts positing solid groove over fractured patterns, then the better musicians steer into an area which, for lack of a better term, we can call soul.
Swaddled in ill-fitting robes and an improvised turban, Ramu leads the guests in a ludicrous ritual that involves dancing the Macarena and during which, for lack of anything better to say, he offers Sharonna's ditsy maxims for erotic self-help as scripture.
This was a bit embarrassing, and I switched to HOLD ON TO YOUR HAT for the next couple of submissions, which failed for lack of sparkling fill.
In contrast to other groups, which foundered for lack of major funding beyond foundation status, the Think Long Committee has a major angel funder, billionaire Nicolas Berggruen, who has pledged $20 million as seed money for any initiative campaign.
Because he does not appear in court, a warrant is issued, at which point, for lack of the price of the judge's dinner, he becomes an outlaw, as Alice Goffman writes in On the Run: Fugitive Life in America.
The embattled government of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, which for years lacked authority over much of the country, was preoccupied with remaining in power.
But surely The Lego movie might have slipped in ahead of How to Train Your Dragon 2, a fun fantasy sequel but one which, for me, lacked its 2010 predecessor's soaring emotional impact?
