King's articles in the paper gave the movement some philosophical and practical basis that it had lacked before.

She held herself with a new confidence, a certainty that she had lacked before.

New leadership gave it a respectability it had lacked before.

But, like a shadow, I lent her the edge, the depth, the crucial definition, that she had lacked before.

H paused, and his voice took on an elegiac tone it had lacked before.

He now had a bargaining point where he had lacked one before.

Then the cheaply synthesised voice took on an urgency it had lacked before.

The black girl's voice filled out, becoming beautiful, and the boys' instruments assumed authority they had lacked before.

The strokes had boldness and force to them that they had lacked before.

That gave her a deep feeling of security that she had lacked before.