You are a bad-tempered, petulant and irritable man lacking in your professional duties to your patients. |
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One expert calls some champagne that spent almost 50 years underwater in the English Channel absolutely fine, though lacking in fizz. |
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I attended only the plenary of the same title and found it lacking in the vibrancy that characterized much of the rest of the conference. |
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He stares out at us from photographs and self-portraits, bald, bearded and utterly lacking in flamboyance. |
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While Galambos' black and white pen drawings at times seem a little scratchy and lacking in polish, he has a nice sense of design. |
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A good number of police officers continuously patrol the Bangla strip at night, offering a sense of security sometimes lacking in Pattaya. |
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The supplements on Disc Two are surprisingly thin and lacking in substance. |
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People don't see them as lacking in smarts, wit or attractiveness but as haughty and detached. |
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The villain is so lacking in character or interest that he seems secondary. |
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It is a conservative community with attractive clusters of Jugendstil villas, but on the whole is conspicuously lacking in charm. |
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But in the very same essay, Macaulay supposes Bacon the man to be thoroughly deceitful, self-seeking, and lacking in moral fibre. |
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It all feels so lacking in genuine feeling, genuine emotion, genuine interest. |
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He doesn't put Austen on a pedestal and he doesn't make a film that is pretty as a picture but lacking in any sense of vitality. |
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While that kind of experience has been lacking in Ireland, it has begun to feed through from larger firms, Sandys said. |
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The result certainly gives the Parliament an unkempt, unloved appearance lacking in maintenance. |
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He seemed to me to be really old, but even in death to be lacking in that common frailty I tended to view all the elderly as possessing. |
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While lacking in merit as a decision-maker, he was extremely adroit in working the congressional funding process. |
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But if some of the former residents were lacking in self control the children greeting the Princess were on their best behaviour. |
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It was puny, totally lacking in the requisite shot of caffeine direct to the brain. |
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That injects his analysis with a tough-minded realism that is often lacking in challenges to the hawkish view of the world. |
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Originally they were portrayed as boring, myopic bean counters completely lacking in foresight or creativity. |
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Any changes undertaken to avoid these deaths will probably be undramatic, and lacking in the public attention given to Sarah's Law. |
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However, what is there in linguistic gravity, romance and tragedy is slightly lacking in subtlety. |
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Invention and imagination were lacking in the home team's second-half effort. |
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That's not to say I won't forgive a lacking in one where the other is outstanding, mind you. |
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It is packed with fascinating minutiae, and yet it is curiously lacking in some details. |
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In general, their policy is vague, lacking in specifics, and frequently uncosted. |
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The paintings of the Middle Ages were flat, misproportioned, lacking in depth and scale, lifeless, and unrealistic. |
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Exhaustively researched, The Sword and the Cross is somewhat deficient in maps and almost totally lacking in illustration. |
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The fact that it is lacking in the world where it should penetrate the unbelieving, is embarrassing. |
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For a band that's lacking in perfectionistic recording tactics, the songs are clean and mean. |
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This is not to say that anyone who is not a citizen or abjures his or her citizenship is lacking in civil rights. |
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It just sat there on the plate, stolid, pallid, and completely lacking in anything even approaching meal appeal. |
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Greek proportions, porticoes, orders, and ornament lent civic buildings a gravity lacking in earlier Palladianism. |
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New Addington's not a bad council estate, as overspill estates go, but it is enormous and somewhat lacking in character. |
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The truffle mash would have made a concluding trinity of earthy flavours, but was over-salted and lacking in the distinctive truffle flavour. |
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He moves to France and in his eighties finds himself lacking in objects but filled with the knowledge he has had a charmed life. |
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Even people who outwardly appeared confident and successful often feel lacking in joy and real direction in their lives. |
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In particular, the author considers the sensitivity requirement to be lacking in stringency. |
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The forwards are not lacking in skill and spirit but their lack of physical strength may prove detrimental against a stronger outfit. |
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A panda with a fully opposable thumb that is lacking in its nearest relatives is hard to explain via evolution. |
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The scenery is flat and open, lacking in trees and hills but with sweeping vistas across stunning landscapes. |
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He apparently possesses some type of economic omniscience, lacking in the rest of the general public. |
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He was ill educated, unintelligent, lacking in common sense, careless of his duties, immoral, emotionally retarded and lazy. |
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Those of you who think alcohol induces hangovers are so seriously lacking in knowledge. |
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They all offer white bread, middle-of-the-road ideas or experiences entirely lacking in intellectual or emotional nourishment. |
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I had the carrot cake, which was covered in thick butter icing, but lacking in the moistness this cake usually has. |
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British cinema is often seen as a staid and starchy affair, as lacking in feeling as it was in aesthetic passion. |
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Aside from Taylor, though, the festival is lacking in visiting artists and guests. |
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Her mind was still as sharp as glass shards, though her physical body was lacking in vigor. |
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We are a straightforward and self-righteous people, so we are rather good at viciousness, but lacking in irony. |
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Other times the product is sophomoric and snarky, lacking in any serious analysis. |
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The cartridges fired by these early breech-loaders were lacking in power when compared to muskets. |
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Of course, the all-important marketing skill was tellingly lacking in Murthy. |
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It was unusual for me to set off on my own and the journey down was strangely lacking in atmosphere. |
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John's garlic mushrooms were lacking in garlic, while my soup was watery with little flavour. |
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This is the kind of though-provoking journalism sorely lacking in some of our more prominent rags. |
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However the first movie was adolescent nonsense, lacking in both characterisation and narrative. |
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Jim's juvenilia, in general, are lacking in distinction, but they do chart a rapidly maturing interest in poetry. |
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Input from the corporate world, wherein lies untapped financial support, is sorely lacking in the struggling communities. |
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If passion, poetry and raw emotion are lacking in the current scene, there's something to be said for learning from the masters. |
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None gave a sniff of atmosphere or a hint of the third dimension of depth that is lacking in all televisual presentations. |
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We played at a higher tempo than of late and we showed the aggression and the determination we have been lacking in recent games. |
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Because the occurrence of ainhum is rare, discussion of the disease is lacking in medical literature. |
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That said, some find it a bit awkward to get into while others find it a little lacking in grunt. |
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The squad still looked woefully lacking in depth, with the defence looking especially fragile. |
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The body itself can be handled and manipulated as though lacking in the capacity for self-propulsion. |
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Even the codiscoverer of the DNA double helix, Sir Francis Crick, displayed humility that is totally lacking in the present day know-alls. |
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It was grossly overcrowded and lacking in elementary safety measures and basic facilities. |
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The large painting is strangely diffuse and lacking in structure for that master of tight, well-ordered composition. |
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This can serve as a fillip to activate and develop community spirit, so sadly lacking in the country. |
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Anti-car policies, on the other hand, are still painfully lacking in Edinburgh. |
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Such information is often sorely lacking in many accounts, although one mistake was encountered. |
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Despite his excitement, there are few things Ignaciuk finds lacking in his life in Bulgaria. |
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It exposed local musical talent and encouraged a community spirit often lacking in other towns. |
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Such a universality was lacking in Malayalam films that had come up for the competition, says Prasad. |
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High quality technical school alternatives are also provided, a feature mostly lacking in Great Britain. |
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In an increasingly impersonal age, swords provide the human touch which is so lacking in guns. |
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Everyone from five to 95 can get involved and nobody is so busy or lacking in green fingers that they can't plant a window-box. |
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They knocked in a barrage of goals in the first two rounds, displaying a consistency sorely lacking in the past. |
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The story is what grabs your attention here, and it's one well worth following, told with a light touch often lacking in games. |
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The gratin potatoes were melt-in-the-mouth and only the courgettes were a little disappointing, lacking in flavour. |
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I can hear the excitement in his voice when he's talking about things and it's been sadly lacking in his voice of late. |
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The medical trial will focus on providing a replacement for the chemical that is lacking in the sufferers of Battens Disease. |
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The sound quality is very reasonable, although perhaps lacking in the treble department. |
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The ending is also a big disappointment, completely lacking in creativity and daring. |
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No, the only way to stop crime is good, old-fashioned detective work which seems to be lacking in our Police Service. |
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Although I found it unsatisfying and lacking in credibility, the female friend with whom I watched it enjoyed it. |
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It also stated that horses that are off in color, wind-sucking, growing proud flesh, or have ringworm are also lacking in copper. |
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Only the most inept of dramatists could deliver a romance so completely lacking in depth and subtlety. |
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To be fair to the Tralee side they were not lacking in spirit and endeavour and they made the visitors fight every inch of the way. |
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The current wave of metal has been widely criticized as lacking in originality and differentiation. |
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Many Army barracks are overcrowded and lacking in modern amenities, such as air conditioning. |
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Is Unionism so lacking in confidence that it can't even argue its case effectively? |
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I was born into a family profuse in its ambition but lacking in its activism. |
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Patients with SCID are usually treated by replacing an essential enzyme, adenosine deaminase, which is lacking in such people. |
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Young viewers will most likely find the film too lacking in the zippiness they are used to in CGI cartoons. |
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It was civil, mutually respectful, completely lacking in any personal animosity. |
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Male sperm cells contain virtually no cytoplasm, and are thus lacking in mitochondria. |
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And though outnumbered almost three to one, the men were hardly lacking in heft. |
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The rear seats, though, are definitely lacking in legroom and are only really suitable for children or vertically challenged adults. |
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He delights in personal enrichment and seems to be lacking in political rhetoric. |
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It's not unsexy, it's not unromantic, it's not unreasonable, it's not lacking in passion or love, it's just the right thing. |
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The left wing think tanks, for instance, are now lifeless, dull and lacking in ideas. |
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The pastry was light and flaky, and the insides were pleasant enough, if a little lacking in spice. |
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Strong claims in either direction are dangerous and misleading, as well as lacking in intellectual rigor. |
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This way, every pupil, not just the naturally sporty ones, would have the know-how and confidence that is so lacking in the majority of adults. |
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Still, I found it rough-hewn, lacking in nuance, plowing right through the music without a natural flow. |
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The position is SO lacking in logic it makes me think that the unions have sold out just like our politicians. |
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With opinions and arguments completely lacking in evidence, logic or relevance, this stuff is irresistible. |
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High precision work is usually found to be lacking in the various units that manufacture artificial limbs. |
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Infrastructure is something we are crying out for and is sadly lacking in many parts. |
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And while the St George story was lacking in any love interest, the theme of life and rebirth is a common one at the festive season. |
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It contains a nugget of truth and humanity that seems to be lacking in her world of dizzy friends and lubricous acquaintances. |
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A tad more emotional wallowing might be desired by some, but I don't find it lacking in depth or enjoyment. |
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They bowled with discipline on a surface lacking in bounce, and fielded with a tigerish resolve to win by eight runs. |
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More precisely, the recursive nature, which is essential for fractal models, is lacking in the procedural approach. |
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Most of the writing is cringeworthy, dull to read, lacking in direction and possesses little or no identity. |
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Oh, yes, there are the obligatory North Indian tandoori items and some perfectly fine meat-based curries notably lacking in excess oil. |
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The trademark creakiness was gone, replaced by an infectious energy and vitality sorely lacking in most musicals of the time. |
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The book of essays, he says, can be as diverse and polythetic and lacking in common themes as the individual. |
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This is characteristic of a system totally lacking in any real involvement of ordinary people. |
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Palpably lacking in fizz, it took some 26 minutes for a shot on goal from either side, another minute before we had one on target. |
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He created mouse embryos with DNA lacking in CDX2, the gene responsible for forming the trophectoderm, or skin on a blastocyte, which is the early form of an embryo. |
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You may have been dealing with illness in the family, but something tells me you would have been this abrasive, arrogant and lacking in self-awareness anyway. |
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In spite of its downtrodden reputation in some quarters as a would-be city lacking in soul, Swindon still managed to attract four million day trippers last year. |
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We must hope that the story is just kite-flying by a Government looking at all the options for public expenditure savings, no matter how lacking in logic. |
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Here, it's tempered somewhat by the movie's setting in the Depression-era South, and that many characters are particularly lacking in education or cultural refinement. |
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Most reports cannot hide the fact that they are mere regurgitations of numbers and figures, wholly lacking in analysis, original thought, or even an interesting writing style. |
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What is lacking in local government is a truly independent tribunal. |
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Innovation is sorely lacking in so many areas of life, he said. |
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For someone so lacking in motivation, he has done quite well for himself. |
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I'm still severely lacking in self confidence but getting there. |
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Would he have enlivened the race with an easy-going style and populist appeal sorely lacking in the present GOP field? |
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It is anaemic, lacking in vision, and a generally debate-free zone. |
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There are a lot of loud guitars, screaming vocals and angst-ridden lyrics, but it all sounds very freeze-dried and lacking in genuine emotional involvement. |
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Perhaps we appreciate that poll-driven politics is insecure, rudderless, inconsequential and lacking in coherency, so we direct our attention inward to find meaning. |
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What will they make of a country that is so lacking in national consciousness that it is unable to produce a flag that proclaims its Australianness? |
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He was also aloof, autocratic and lacking in managerial skills. |
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Much like Cosmo itself, the slideshow is pretty to look at but lacking in substance and utility. |
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Strapped for medical staff and lacking in the resources needed to treat the 5,338 suspected cases, the numbers are soaring. |
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We urge the Government to act on the report's recommendations, channelling resources into the NHS that have been scandalously lacking in the past. |
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Such change at the top of the FDNY could dramatically affect a department many accuse of sorely lacking in diversity. |
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But, on a day when players on the pitch outnumbered spectators on the terraces, Kingsbury displayed a desire and commitment that was largely lacking in the visitors. |
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Warm reds and terracotta, sunshine yellows and striking blues give the property an air of confidence, style and warmth, often lacking in period houses. |
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These pure language mavens always come up with the notion people who use language that shocks their shell-pink ears are simply lacking in vocabulary. |
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Dravid's batsmanship has often been taken for granted because it is so firmly rooted in orthodoxy, because it is so utterly comprehensible and so utterly lacking in mystique. |
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Unfortunately, he ends up more involved than the viewer, because the leading characters are self-obsessed, self-pitying and lacking in redemptive sympathy. |
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Girls, allegedly timorous and lacking in confidence, now outnumber boys in student government, in honor societies, on school newspapers, and in debating clubs. |
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His tweets and Instagram photos also seem to point to a clear motive, lacking in so many other school shootings. |
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Almost immediately, Switzer said that Dupree was out of shape, lazy, lacking in intensity. |
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This outpouring of anger was heavily lacking in reason, spellcheck, and timeliness. |
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Labelling is more comprehensive, though still lacking in detail. |
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The ideas, they said, were unambitious and lacking in vision. |
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It is mostly clear, occasionally muffled, and lacking in dynamic range. |
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Many of our performances in these early months after our defeat last November will be off-key and lacking in polish. |
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An observation sometimes made about Summers is that he is lacking in people skills. |
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His reputation is based upon offerings that are simply offensive and vulgar graffiti, lacking in humor, without wit, and devoid of intelligent satire. |
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You hardly hear it now, but in 1979 it was a sneering term for a person who has acquired wealth recently, and is vulgarly ostentatious or lacking in social graces. |
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In contrast with tungsten, hafnium does not interact readily with iron-rich material, but it does combine readily with the elements in rocks lacking in iron. |
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His direction is competent throughout but totally lacking in imagination, resulting in a movie that looks great but feels like assembled stock footage. |
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That seemed a bit lacking in heft, so I bulked it out with a random handful of paper from a disused notebook, put our names on it, stapled the pile up, and turned it in. |
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Organotherapy has a direct effect on stimulating the function of the organ by enhancing the selection of enzymes and specific nucleic acids lacking in the organ. |
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They contrast with the often impeccably maintained town centres and are largely made up of high-rise tower blocks that are lacking in amenities, especially for the youth. |
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Apparently now they are more palatable but lacking in food value. |
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A definite muscular or serous coat was lacking in all the specimens. |
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The contest saw both sides lacking in cohesion and direction. |
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He found music students lacking in fluency and expressiveness. |
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The music, too, in this act is often fragmentary and lacking in direction. |
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Equally lacking in some essential points are the various post-election party urgings which are aimed at decoying us into focusing on domestic issues. |
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Good governance is lacking in most countries that are unable to promote job creation, engage in productive public spending and to stimulate economic growth. |
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The clinic is not only lacking in free prophylactics, but in every aspect. |
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If an evangelist should preach the gospel lacking in the affectionate qualities and energies generated by those truths, he has in reality States and Canada. |
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In fact, Finlayson is a little wordy even with his own words, equivocating and hesitating to offer an opinion of his own, as if lacking in confidence. |
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If evidence of authenticity is lacking in a bench trial, the trial judge will simply dismiss the evidence as unpersuasive or irrelevant. |
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Mancall notes that Churchyard's pamphlet provides a sense of immediacy so often lacking in retrospective writing. |
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She decided the eggnog was lacking in flavor, so she decided to nutmeg it heavily. |
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Most geologists believe it was composed primarily of nitrogen, carbon dioxide, and other relatively inert gases, and was lacking in free oxygen. |
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In the 1890s the ILP was lacking in alliances with the trade union organisations. |
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New World porcupines have some arboreal adaptations that are lacking in their more terrestrial Old World counterparts. |
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The system has also been criticized for being arcane, lacking in some of the safeguards of justice, and unable to deal with the modern world. |
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An attempt was made to use native Argentine mountain ash, but it proved too heavy and lacking in pliability. |
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Stoppard's plays have been sometimes dismissed as pieces of clever showmanship, lacking in substance, social commitment, or emotional weight. |
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However, the Image Dissector camera was found to be lacking in light sensitivity, requiring excessive levels of illumination. |
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They are concentrated in counties Limerick and Clare but are lacking in Ulster, except the area around Strangford Lough. |
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And roads lined with buildings of a grandeur that's sadly lacking in Birmingham after the vandalistic re-development of the post-war decades. |
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This fact led many to claim that the Renault engine powering the Red Bull was lacking in horsepower compared to the Ferrari and Mercedes engines. |
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But even with this power boost, the Escape is lacking in the giddyup factor. |
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He is regarded as wild, naughty, silly, undependable, lacking in seriousness or even promise. |
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The road will also get a storm sewer system which it was lacking in that section, Brown said. |
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In fact, I'm completely talentless and lacking in personality, but I have lately bravely fought a deep addiction for Smarties. |
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From what I've seen on TV, it looks a pretty decent venue, if rather lacking in atmosphere due to the empty and seatless top tier. |
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Beckham used to be cripplingly shy and lacking in self-confidence. |
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All of this being said, there is much lacking in the way of treatments for Gulf War illness. |
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A faanish fan is considered lacking in serious interest by some other fans, whom he regards as humorless and stuffy. |
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The Wobbegong take is a little less successful and illustrations are somewhat lacking in immediate appeal. |
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The rhythm should be repetitious, lacking in pulse, unaccented and unpercussive in nature. |
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However, documentation of comparable attempts targeting herptiles has been lacking in the literature. |
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Epicurus, though his ethic seemed to others swinish and lacking in moral exultation, was very much in earnest. |
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Humility and care for others are the important qualities lacking in our self-preoccupations and self-elevations. |
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The pericentriolar radial complex characteristic of the spermatozoa of other echinoderms is lacking in the spermatozoa of all sea urchins. |
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The legislative package may be lacking in presentational pizzazz but it sets out the sort of solid agenda which Labour should be doing. |
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Oldham, though lacking in leisure and cultural amenities, is historically notable for its theatrical culture. |
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It was closely tied to the French state, acting as an extension of a government seriously lacking in scientists. |
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Weber was also influenced by Kantian ethics, which he nonetheless came to think of as obsolete in a modern age lacking in religious certainties. |
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Severely lacking in structure, landmark images, title cards and fade-outs are all but ignored as the music stampedes on. |
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The need for metal ores stimulated trade, as many of the areas of early human settlement were lacking in ores. |
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He had a dislike of public display, considering it hollow and lacking in conviction. |
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I found Tonya's speech heavy in Coulterisms but lacking in substantive arguments. |
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As reported in the previous section, the nerve has now invaded the DMM, but the VMM remains uninnervated, as well as lacking in Pax7 reactivity. |
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The socialists all seemed to me to be old, even those who were anagraphically young, and to be lacking in revolutionary capacity. |
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The pope felt that not only was the proper form for the sacrament lacking in the Anglican ordinal, but the intention was also lacking. |
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Their success, though lacking in minerals, was such that the company was chartered by Charles II on their return. |
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The worst thing a man could be was lacking in self-discipline. |
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Although lichens are high in carbohydrates, they are lacking in essential proteins that vascular plants provide. |
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He compared bones and muscles of human and chimpanzee thumbs, finding that humans have 3 muscles which are lacking in chimpanzees. |
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Anoxic events are situations in which the middle and even the upper layers of the ocean become deficient or totally lacking in oxygen. |
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Contemporary chroniclers state that John was sinfully lustful and lacking in piety. |
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Other microbes live in habitats lacking in oxygen, and are dependent on chemical reactions other than photosynthesis. |
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Or, to put it another way, Ronald Fergus, middle aged, overweight, underhaired and slightly lacking in the marbles department, was in his kitchen chatting. |
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His family was relatively undistinguished and lacking in pedigree. |
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This type of set of experiences possesses a constancy and coherence that is lacking in the set of experiences of which hallucinations, for example, are a part. |
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By the late 17th century there was a largely complete network of parish schools in the Lowlands, but in the Highlands basic education was still lacking in many areas. |
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Karen Stephenson's argument for heterarchy is valid in principle, but it is lacking in the details of how one would create effective heterarchies. |
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Evidence suggests he was not physically strong, and though not lacking in courage, he was noted more for his intellect than as a warlike character. |
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Although lacking in rhyming skills, beat-making, or any facet of musicality whatsoever, Rogers caught the eye of the Cash Money crew due to his taste in diamonds. |
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Small organisms with hard calciferous shells have trouble growing at extreme depths because the water at that depth is severely lacking in calcium carbonate. |
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Larsson was not lacking in courage either, he twice fought back from a set down before one spectacular passing shot from the Aussie in the last set provided the final twist. |
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By the late 17th century, there was a largely complete network of parish schools in the Lowlands, but in the Highlands basic education was still lacking in many areas. |
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Many projects being designed were lacking in constructability. |
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Singapore's media industry has sometimes been criticised for being overly regulated and lacking in freedom by human rights groups such as Freedom House. |
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The typical rather narrow lakes with a long north to south extent, which are very common just a little bit further north, are lacking in the province. |
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By the late seventeenth century there was a largely complete network of parish schools in the lowlands, but in the Highlands basic education was still lacking in many areas. |
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There were claims that producer goods were favoured over consumer goods, causing consumer goods to be lacking in quantity and quality in the shortage economies that resulted. |
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The eighteenth century is generally lacking in great odic poetry. |
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Perhaps that is what is lacking in the work of the younger glamourpusses around today. Zubin Mehta, for example, strikes me as being in something of a mess. |
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It is greyer, duller and lacking in the lustre of the winter fur. |
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This kind of activism is often the hallmark of people in their Indian summer season. Their energy is fueled by a sense of urgency that is lacking in youth. |
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Mermithids are occasionally found, but spirurids, so common in the above 2 groups, are lacking in the Grylloidea, as are other groups of nematodes. |
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However, that they might not be thought of as wicked men and those who are lacking in fidelity, may God forbid, they wrote down for them this magnanimous praise, etc. |
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Whether animal-like or machinelike, human beings seen in these terms are material objects, as lacking in any other identity as Darl's wooden dolls. |
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It was a sheet inadequate and lacking in the essential parts, like a good color range, unseamed four sizes twin to king, sensible packaging, and pricing. |
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