Oh, said the sarcastic voice, probably when you played ball and admitted, with your usual lack of grace, the truth.

He might have done so in any event, as Mother had prepared it with her usual lack of skill.

"I should think your son's wife could tell you more," Mother suggested with her usual lack of diplomacy.

"Is Supo still treating you with his usual lack of respect?"

Petey looked at me with his usual lack of understanding.

"Even with the usual lack of control over a photo, these came out more extreme," she said.

Wallace looked at her with his usual lack of expression.

She greeted me with her usual lack of ceremony.

I didn't think so, except for the usual lack of sleep.

He opened the door and pushed her through with his usual lack of courtesy, but she was past fighting.