Though, on the whole, impartial, Barros is the narrator and apologist of the great deeds of his countrymen, and lacks the critical spirit and intellectual acumen of Damião de Goes.
Bar-Nebo, lacks intrinsic fitness for a Jew and a Levite, and of course does not accord with the statement in Acts itself.
Ditchling Beacon itself stands some eight hundred and fifty feet above the sea and is the highest point in all the range of the South Downs, though it lacks the nobility of Chanctonbury.
So the market town of New Alresford came into existence, and, but for the unfortunate fires of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, would bear upon its face the marks it now lacks of antiquity.
The book has not been fairly edited: the notes abound in mistakes, the volumelacks an index, &c.
It lacks every charm of style; it conscientiously shirks every difficulty; it abounds in the most extraordinary blunders and it is utterly useless as a picture of manners or a book of reference.
How shall he taste of sleep who lacks repose, viii.
These cycles do not repeat themselves exactly; but the planet lacks only four days of having been in opposition eleven times during twelve of our years, so that it is not difficult to keep track of him through a long series of years.
He lacks that supreme quality without which a man can never be interesting to men,--the capacity to be tempted.
If by this is meant that helacks enthusiasm for his subject, the criticism is entirely misplaced.
He lacks spontaneity and sensibility, he is too stiff-backed.
O'Neil has been able to create the storm, but he lacks the capacity to direct it.
Suppose a tree that a black wishes to climb presents difficulties low down, he will procure a length of lawyer cane, partly biting and partly breaking it off, if he lacks a cutting implement.
What the one lacks in nutritive or assimilative qualities the other supplies.
The writing is of the flowing style we used to call Spencerian, and if it lacks character I am inclined to believe that its weakness is merely the result of infrequent use of a pen.
But my wife, unfortunately, lacks a sense of humor, and I felt that the remark might have been more fortunate.
He is a good man, but he lacks courage, resolution.
Excuse me, Miss Vervain, but your sadness lacks novelty; it's a sort of plagiarism.
But your stuff lacks raison d'être--if you know what I mean.
He whose key-ring lacks that open sesame never really sees the city, even though he dwell in the shadow of the Sorbonne and comprehend the fiacre French of the Paris cabman.
For a southern senator to do these things requires pluck as well as principle, and we may be sure that John Bell lacks neither.
He thatlacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend; Eternity mourns that.
Henceforth life lacks something, lacks much--my first partner in early years, my dearest friend in old age.
The ostentatious meal prepared by a strange cook whom one seldom sees, and served by hands paid for the task, lacks the sweetness of that which a mother's hands lay before you as the expression and proof of her devotion.
Gentleman, Weare this for me: one out of suites with fortune That could giue more, but that her hand lacks meanes.
This precious Booke of Loue, this vnbound Louer, To Beautifie him, onely lacks a Couer.
I cannot say, 'tis pitty She lacks Instructions, for she seemes a Mistresse To most that teach Perd.
Rosaline lacks then the loue Which teacheth thee that thou and I am one, Shall we be sundred?
This fierce sea-lion of the sea, This England lacks some stronger lay, This modern world hath need of thee!
Generosity sumtimes may lack prudence, but it never lacks faith, and faith haz won holier laurels than prudence ever did.
The kondem phool generally lacks but one thing tew make him all the the suckcess he could ask for, and that one thing iz common sense.
For not even a genius can efficiently tackle problems with the elements of which he lacks acquaintanceship, and the mass of facts which they had to deal with was sheer unmanageable.
Their country lackssome of the necessaries of material prosperity, such as coal, iron, and cotton.
And small blame it is to science, that she thus lacks the power of overstepping her natural boundaries.
Kuwait lacks water and has practically no arable land, thus preventing development of agriculture.
Paraguay lacks substantial mineral or petroleum resources but possesses a large hydropower potential.
The argument adduced in support of this view, however, unquestionably lacks the critical caution otherwise characteristic of this investigator.
Hence he lacks the incentive to strive for anything beyond these simple means of satisfying his wants.
But it lacks the familiar human traits which make the hero an object not only of fear but also of admiration and love.
It was simply by antithesis to cultural man that the image of natural man took shape; the latter is one who lacksall the attainments of culture.
It is the hero who gives to the gods those very characteristics which the demon lacks from the outset.
It is simple, in that it lacks almost all grammatical distinctions; it is complicated, because, in its constant reliance on sensibly perceptual images, it analyses our concepts into numerous elements.
The most primitive stage of culture, as we shall see in the following discussion, lacks the conditions for either maternal or paternal descent, inasmuch as it possesses neither clearly defined clans nor any personal property worth mention.
What characteristics differentiate a god from a demon, who is not yet a god because he lacks personality, and from a hero, who is regarded by the age in which gods originate as somewhat approximating a god but as nevertheless still a man?
Mefistofele" shares with "Aida" the honor of having restored dramatic truth to the Italian lyric stage, but it lacks the skill in theatrical construction shown in Verdi's work.
The book is episodic and lacks dramatic continuity.
At the southern end, almost from wall to wall, extends the long window, with its softly cushioned seat--a vantage point that never lacks for tenants.
Each of these splits up into two kinds, according as the writer has or lacks "soul.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lacks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
