He tried to get the writer involved with tools at an early age, but the writer lacked the skill his father had.
"I can't understand the American literary block... unless it means that the blocked man isn't forced economically to write (as the English writer, lacking campuses and grants, usually is) and hence can afford the luxury of fearing the critics' pounce on a new work not as good as the last".
The show's writers lack the courage of his stated convictions.
So the gathered writers, lacking mainstream clout, could not help make Mayweather famous famous.
If you think the writers lack the stomach to go down that particular road then we've clearly been watching different shows.
Eliot warned that the poet-critic is always trying to defend his own output, and Raine, naturally, pounces on writers lacking his own high degree of linguistic resolution and independence.
Excessive pauses usually indicate writers' lack of ability to produce chunks of language when writers translate ideas into linguistic forms (Matsuhashi, 1981).
But more recent popular science writers lack Weinberg's discipline in drawing the line.
Femme - What the writers lacked in giving Carmen a true personality, they made up for by making her bat shit crazy.
