Sentence examples for work lacking from inspiring English sources

Ways of Loving: Two Novellas and Eighteen Short Stories (1974) was praised for its urbanity, although some critics found the work lacking in substance.

Strabo found fault with the map designing of the Greek scholar Eratosthenes, who lived from c. 276 to c. 194 bce; Eratosthenes had combined astronomical data with coast and road measurements, but Strabo found his work lacking in precision.

"Employers report repeatedly that many new graduates they hire are not prepared to work, lacking the critical thinking, writing and problem-solving skills needed in today's workplaces," the commission's report complained.

This fact has led most scholars to the conclusion that this is an eclectic work, lacking originality and vision, at a low philosophical level (Guttmann 1955; Guttmann 1964, 247 251; Ravitzky 1988, 104 105).

Note the weak points they find: Is your work lacking tension?

Others implode, unprepared for the hard work, lacking talent to support the attention.

"I felt that my work lacked something.

Not all the work lacks urgency.

Until recently, though, his work lacked a personal stamp.

He does not blame them, admitting that his early work lacked originality.

That the new work lacks energy might be expected of a writer in his eighth decade.