Sentences with phrase «lacked guile»

Worse, he lacked guile.

In Aaron Ramsey, Alex Iwobi and Mohamed Elneny, the Gunners had Premier League regulars in their starting line - up - but without Alexis Sanchez, Theo Walcott, Olivier Giroud and Mesut Ozil, they lacked guile and bite.

The Czech Republic produced a spirited fightback but in the absence of the injured Tomas Rosikcy, they lacked the guile to break down a Turkish defence that was well - marshalled by the impressive Mehmet Topal.

The only good thing that I can take away from that performance is it highlighted that we still lacked guile in attack and we were naive in defence.

Since Cazorla's injury, our midfield has lacked guile and creativity.

At the start of the season I said to my work colleagues that I feared relegation could be Wengers final destination and even they non Arsenal fans could not see it happening, I still fear it if Wenger honours his contract, we have become a below average team struggling for confidence and form, lacking guile and class and truly world class players because sorry Mesut is not showing he is for me.

In response to this crescendo of crises, May lacks style, Timothy lacks guile, and Hammond allows them no substance.

But life among the little women isn't all bearing up under adversity, even if the March girls lack the guile of Becky Sharp, the peerless schemer in Thackeray's «Vanity Fair.»

But Carolyn did not lack guile.

Not exact matches

ALEX IWOBI 6.0 The Young Nigerian forward had the quality and talent but lacked the level of confidence and guile required to boss the midfield in such a massive game at Anfield.

«it was nevertheless a staggering achievement which was firmly rooted in sport's eternal verities of desire, spirit, honest effort, sound organisation and inspired light touch leadership, albeit liberally sprinkled with the magic dust of goals, guile and superhuman endeavour as supplied by the outstanding triumvirate of, respectively, Vardy, Mahrez and Kante» so we lack all of these stuffs in our team that's why we win nothing, so you have answers but you are just being deluded.

However, his movement is often ponderous, and he lacks confidence and guile in front of goal.

But so far today, the Saints midfield had lacked the incision or guile to open up Liverpool's defence.

The most impressive of these victories was arguably their latest, with the U17 team showing the guile, guts, and determination that the senior team has often been accused of lacking, turning around a 2 - 0 deficit to win 5 - 2 against a very talented Portuguese team.

While Blackburn do lack any player of Arsenal's calibre, someone with a bit of flair and guile to pick a defensive lock, they make up for their shortcomings in those technical departments with their industrious attitude and resilient nature.

Their performance on Sunday lacked inspiration, that bit of spark or guile, but the return of Fernando Torres, who has been out of action for what seems an eternity for Liverpool, should make his long awaited start on Sunday, and we fancy the Spaniard to torment this Rovers back line and wouldn't discourage anyone from backing Torres to score at Anfield, even if he is lacking in match fitness.

Thus, it remains to be seen whether or not Advocaat decides to rope in the Chelsea sensation and add the much needed guile that has been lacking in his midfield this season.

Lacking in guile, kids with Aspergers communicate in a way that's refreshingly frank, so says Chantal Sicile - Kira, author, speaker, and autism expert.

... Delight in smooth - sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts, desire for popularity and electoral success irrespective of the vital interests of the State, genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation, obvious lack of intellectual vigour in both leaders of the British Coalition Government, marked ignorance of Europe and aversion from its problems in Mr. Baldwin, the strong and violent pacifism which at this time dominated the Labour - Socialist Party, the utter devotion of the Liberals to sentiment apart from reality, the failure and worse than failure of Mr. Lloyd George, the erstwhile great war - time leader, to address himself to the continuity of his work, the whole supported by overwhelming majorities in both Houses of Parliament: all these constituted a picture of British fatuity and fecklessness which, though devoid of guile, was not devoid of guilt, and, though free from wickedness or evil design, played a definite part in the unleashing upon the world of horrors and miseries which, even so far as they have unfolded, are already beyond comparison in human experience.

May lacks the depth, guile and experience to guide the UK through a course chosen with speedy naivety.

Conventional wisdom has it that a lack of guile contributed to Jeremy Corbyn's shock triumph in the Labour leadership election.

Boris lacked that guile.

It isn't intelligence that Beatriz lacks; it's guile.

But the documentary points up what is flagrantly wrongheaded about «Taking Woodstock,» where the machinations of the producers and promoters lack any real bite or guile; the cavorters descending on the scene are without exception sweet - souled; and the acid trips, including Elliot's, are fun - house frolics.

BATTLE CREEK PICKED UP DIRECT TO SERIES FOR NEXT SEASON STUDIO: Sony TV / CBS TV Studios TEAM: Vince Gilligan (ep), David Shore (ep), Mark Johnson (ep), Bryan Singer (d, ep) LOGLINE: Two detectives with very different worldviews are teamed up and must answer the question: Are cynicism, guile and deception enough to clean up the semi-mean streets of Battle Creek, Mich., in the face of a complete lack of resources; or is the exact opposite true — it takes naïveté, trust and a boatload of resources?

It's possible to say something about how National Treasure gratifies the basest nationalistic instincts of our media - fed culture, but it does that already with an almost complete lack of guile.

Just in the last few weeks we've had Lance Armstrong (a textbook example of how not to do it, by the way), Manti Te'o (whose phenomenal lack of guile might just redeem him in the end)... I remember I was particularly interested in the Tiger Woods scandal, because at one point early on he made a sort of plea for privacy — this is about my marriage, I have two small children, please let us resolve this out of the spotlight — which was perfectly reasonable but had absolutely no chance of being granted.

Lack of Guile.

«Yes, of course, some investors can win,» said Bogle, affecting a lack of guile in his sunny tone, as he raised his knife.