Sentence examples for lacuna from high-quality English sources.

• But one man’s lacuna-filling is another man’s power grab.

• Sivan has three siblings and said he had a happy and supportive childhood, albeit with a familiar lacuna.

• The great lacuna at the heart of The Zhivago Affair is the realisation that Dr Zhivago isn't that great a novel.

• He sensed a specific lacuna of warmth, of any viable contact with his daughter, and this sensation caused a lump to rise in his throat.

• They may have rather different ideas on how that lacuna should be filled.

• By then a second bill should have defined extrajudicial executions, a lacuna at present.

• No one has undertaken a chronicle from Alaric’s point of view, a lacuna that makes this book worthwhile—and hard to pull off.

• It also fosters a national amnesia about what wars are and how they end, a lacuna that has undermined American postwar efforts ever since.

Use lacuna in a sentence.

• “Church Aflame” might serve as a how-to-do-it guide for the ambitious young evangelist if it were not for one important lacuna: money-raising.

• To remedy this lacuna the Daimyo of Mito commissioned a commentary, the responsibility for which, in a roundabout fashion, devolved upon Keichū.

• And at this utterly crucial epicentre of political destiny, I discovered that there was a lacuna—not the wrong instinct, but no instinct at the human, gut level.

• That legal lacuna has prompted questions during prior episodes where prime ministers fell ill or underwent surgery, and now looms large at a time when Britain faces its greatest crisis since World War II.

• An arrangement of two trace leaves and a single lacuna is found among several primitive angiosperm families and throughout the gymnosperms and is the organization from which other nodal patterns are derived.

• In this case the Martens Clause, which first appeared in one of the 1899 Hague Conventions (and has been repeated in virtually every major treaty since), avoids any lacuna in the law by providing the following:

• Since the traditional theory of games lacks an explicit treatment of the dynamics of rational deliberation, evolutionary game theory can be seen, in part, as filling an important lacuna of traditional game theory.

• While Barbara Kingsolver, the award-winning author of books including The Lacuna and The Poisonwood Bible shares with us the Bo, She’d Never Lend: Annie Dillard’s 1975 Pulitzer Prize winner, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.

lacuna sentence examples

• Never mind that he is only featuring on telly because he featured a lot on telly many years ago – how many normal folks, having taken coke for a decade and slumped into a 20-year lacuna of alcoholism, get to weep on film?

• ., whereas there was no need to appeal to caloric at some prior or deeper level, with design, according to various design advocates, there is still an explanatory lacuna (or implicit promissory note) requiring reference to design at some explanatory level prior to Darwinian evolution.

• There's more from Truck with Keeva Mairéad and Death of the Maiden, we take you back to Latitude with a live track from Despicable Zee on the BBC Introducing Stage, there's a Wiretap Session from Lacuna Common (recorded live at Safehouse Studios), a first play from Julian Wagstaff and Dave's interview with ShaoDow - hear about everything from talking in parliament about the importance of smaller music venues... to running a new degree course for rappers and MC's!

• To sum up this discussion of Boltzmann’s answer to the reversibility objection: it seems that on all above readings of his two 1877 papers, the lacuna between what Boltzmann had achieved and what he needed to do to answer Loschmidt satisfactorily – i.e. to address the issue of the evolution of distributions of state and to prove that non-uniform distributions tend, in some statistical sense, to uniform ones, or to prove any other reformulation of the H-theorem – remains striking.