Animals did give him a thrill, though, even if they lacked that human element.

"It seems the great lord lacks that grace also, after all."

But novelists of the recent past seemed to have lacked that passion for performance.

And I think if you don't have a mother, you lack that a little bit.

Unfortunately, many of the other pictures and passages lack that cohesion.

"I can't tell you where the money went as my brain lacks that orientation," he writes.

You have to wonder whether we lack that instinct today.

Lacking that gene, we headed out the door back to the planet earth.

He lacked entirely that moral foundation without which no great work may be accomplished in the world.

"A lot of doctors lack that business acumen, and I was curious to learn."