Small surprise, given their notorious lack of humor or imagination.

Ever since he disclosed that he injured himself while eating a stack of "delicious pancakes" - unintentionally hilarious, given his notorious lack of conditioning - Penner has been a tremendously good sport about it.

His talents were overshadowed by a notorious lack of speed.

Blade knew resistance would have been hopeless against such odds except for the high, thick sides of Triumph and the pirates' own notorious lack of discipline.

She could not cure his notorious lack of punctuality, a fault she shared; Queen Victoria once complained that Emily had kept her waiting for a hour.

They had done that earlier, in London, around St Paul's with notorious lack of success.

The notorious lack of any requirement for traceability is a source of provocation to all the people who wish, quite legitimately, to be kept informed.

The type's over-forgiving nature was probably behind yet another nickname, the "clutching hand," although this may also have been associated with its notorious lack of speed.

But most corporations are still leery of exposing their most sensitive information to the notorious lack of security on the Internet, making private-network offerings like I.B.M.'s more alluring.

Mr. Reed's fans probably won't be concerned about volume, but they may have trouble with Mr. Wilson's notorious lack of interest in narrative.