| But on certain iron-gray, lackluster Buffalo days with their diffuse and shadowless light you might be moved to take these symbols to heart. |
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| Retail giants reported lackluster sales in November despite markdowns on apparel, toys and electronics. |
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| But all in all, we have to say that this was one lackluster mahurat that we attended. |
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| Unless you live in the tropics, even the most toned among us is apt to uncover lackluster skin when summer comes. |
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| Instead of the normal, clear bright eyes that she had engraved in her mind, these eyes were bloodshot and lackluster. |
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| Its nourishing shea butter formula also gives conditioning shine to lackluster locks. |
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| The quality of the video is also pretty lackluster, sporting weak black levels and generally dull colors. |
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| After a lackluster year for movie ticket sales, all Tinseltown wants is a big fat blockbuster. |
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| There's a side plot involving some shady characters, but it's not explored or explained enough to hold these lackluster episodes together. |
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| Despite the lackluster dialogue, the cast strives mightily to bring some sincerity to their roles. |
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| The OLED sale was also prompted by lackluster sales of the passive matrix devices offered by the Samsung NEC Mobile Display Co. joint venture. |
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| Thus, while The Sleeping Dragon has occasional moments of greatness, it is, overall, a lackluster, uninvolving game. |
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| The scholarship is substantial, but the writing is a bit dull and lackluster. |
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| The Japanese track is simple stereo, which seems lackluster in comparison to the English dub. |
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| The brewer said lackluster demand at bars and clubs was compounded by the dollar's drop against the euro. |
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| Sadly, the good vibes wore off very quickly as we became depressed by the gauzy colours, dark underpainting and lackluster watercolours. |
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| The simple tricks are easy to execute, but the lackluster gameplay doesn't make combos any easier. |
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| The band's been sending copies to anyone who would give them the time of day, and the usual lackluster attitude turns to dust soon after. |
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| Don't let the fact that its reputation was tarnished by several lackluster sequels blind you to the original's charms. |
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| They were 3-9 on the season and their play got more lackluster as the season grew on and rainouts outnumbered actual played games. |
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| Such robust pieces of woodwork and skill didn't deserve such a lackluster fate. |
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| That's about all there is to the game, but just because the formula is simple, didn't need to mean the gameplay was lackluster. |
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| The unabashed display of political partisanship certainly added some spice to an otherwise lackluster campaign. |
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| His lackluster music making and routine pianism will hardly impress anyone who has heard far superior pianists of the same age. |
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| The graphics are decidedly lackluster and have an aura of a home brew game. |
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| I suspected that the local gods, having delivered a lackluster landscape, decided to make up for it by blessing the land with colorful rivers. |
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| The girl rejected for her admittedly rather lackluster braiding skills opened her mouth in wide-eyed surprise. |
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| Today his memory lives on, providing quality filler material for lackluster lists throughout the world. |
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| With a very lackluster record of past accomplishment, Lam roared into town with guns blazing. |
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| Finally, for you curly heads, don't towel dry your hair because it'll break up your natural curl, creating lackluster, frizzy hair. |
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| After a lackluster performance, it was a cinch for the judges to send him home. |
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| He was the outstanding success in our generally lackluster footballing performance against Holland. |
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| He was built for speed but at the same time had an elegance that shone even through the dirt caking his lackluster body. |
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| After lackluster previews, producer David Selznick feared for its American release and severely edited the film. |
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| Now your skin is lackluster and your eyes are sporting dark shadows. |
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| But Murphy nevertheless did his best to shoulder the blame for the entire team's lackluster play. |
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| Obtaining financing with a lackluster credit rating is beyond challenging. |
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| The combat in Dues Ex is a bit lackluster due to the cumbersome controls of using a gamepad and because it utilizes the long-outdated unreal engine. |
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| Visitors encounter them first, and their palpable presence makes the show of mainstream American work seem secondhand and lackluster. |
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| The circus, meanwhile, has let some lackluster product licensing arrangements expire unrenewed, while turning others away. |
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| This lightly fragranced mask provides an immediate energizing lift and is the ideal antidote for dull, tired, lackluster skin. |
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| Reawaken lackluster brunette hair with dazzling brown colour, satiny texture and multidimensional shine. |
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| The two movies, while dramatically different, simply appeared to underwhelm audiences, as signaled by lackluster exit poll scores. |
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| Orange oil replenishes both your hair and skin, restoring shine to tired tresses and radiance to lackluster skin. |
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| He has a track record, and it is one many consider lackluster, even flawed. |
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| Therefore, an unfavorable evolution in the regional mix and a lackluster product mix improvement accounted for the sharper ASP decrease. |
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| All in all, we expect growth to be lackluster but deflation fears should disappear into the background. |
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| Fiscal deficits will continue to rise over the coming year as a lackluster recovery unfolds in developed nations. |
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| If the economy stays lackluster all the fresh money will lead to inflation. |
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| We expect investors' appetite for stocks to return after a lackluster start of the year. |
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| In April, coal and electricity recovered slightly from their lows while gas continued its descent due to abundant supply and lackluster demand. |
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| The lackluster enforcement of environmental laws in Colombia would only make this situation even worse. |
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| To sum up, I acknowledge that Canada's innovation performance has long been lackluster but I do not share the gloomy prognosis. |
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| As we announced earlier this year, the Swedish guys are definitely back for this year 2010, after a 2009 lackluster year. |
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| Against a backdrop of lackluster growth, US and emerging markets equities remain his preferred asset classes. |
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| After another lackluster week, Maura Johnston on what's ailing American Idol. |
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| But the seminoles did so playing a relatively light schedule against relatively lackluster opponents. |
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| Despite this stellar past, Howard's law school has struggled in recent years with sagging enrollment and lackluster bar exam passage rates of its students. |
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| Many jazz fans were puzzled by this finding, which seems incompatible with the lackluster sales figures in the genre. |
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| Her move to regain control of the Occupy feed seems to have been due to frustration with the lackluster state of the revolution. |
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| Perhaps this is some postmodern gay subversion, but to me it just seemed like lousy writing and lackluster direction. |
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| Garish lights, torn magazines, uncomfortable seats, such is the lackluster picture of conventional laundromats, a place where urbanites try hard not to linger. |
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| In the other countries of Latin America, with the exception of Chile, markets were weakened by lackluster economic conditions and competition from low-cost products. |
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| Some commodities, particularly base metals and fertilizers, witnessed an early price rally but later lost ground, reflecting the lackluster buoyancy of world industrial production. |
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| Men, who maintain a busy lifestyle and are experiencing lackluster skin and want to proactively defend against skin stress, which, if left untreated, will lead to signs of aging and dull-looking skin. |
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| It is the ideal day cream for dull, lackluster skin. |
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| The team retains its lackluster expectations for real estate. |
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| Rick Perry's already lackluster presidential bid went on a deathwatch after his debate debacle. |
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| We thus expect the recovery to be lackluster. |
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| Fans often declare that they prefer fanon to what actually happens in canon and fanworks to the actual series, which is lackluster by comparison. |
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| As Christie considers a Republican presidential campaign, the prospect of a renaissance for heavily Democratic Camden would offer a useful counterpoint to New Jersey's lackluster economic performance. |
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| She could arguably have more influence as a talking head than as a legislator, especially considering her rather lackluster attendance record as an actual congressperson. |
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| A warm lava cake was overbaked and an eggy crème brûlée was lackluster. |
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| Her meteoric rise to power was followed by a slow, lackluster career at the top. |
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| The chemicals industry was once again confronted with an unfavorable environment, shaped by the lack of any upturn in demand and the lackluster performance of the pharmaceuticals industry. |
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| After a first half marked by lackluster sales, the second half of the year saw a good improvement in optical fiber cables and components, as well as in the more mature copper cable segment. |
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| Like the Grateful Dead during that band's last 20 years, the Stones churn out lackluster albums and make their money by touring. |
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| After ten years of friendship and just six months of lackluster bridesmaiding, the women did not even get an invitation to the wedding. |
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| Many of the Fund's beneficiary countries experienced the knock-on effects of lackluster external demand, weak prices for non-fuel primary commodities and contracting net capital inflows. |
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| Henry gave only lackluster support to Frederick's policies, and in a critical situation during the Italian wars, Henry refused the Emperor's plea for military support. |
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| The movie had great special effects, but the dialogue was lackluster. |
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| Even though living conditions were lackluster, under the careful eye of her mother, Isabella was instructed in lessons of practical piety and in a deep reverence for religion. |
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| In a lackluster election, Mayor Laurene Weste and council members Frank Ferry and Marsha McLain took early leads that held steady as votes were counted in City Hall. |
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| The British economy was lackluster in the 1920s, with sharp declines and high unemployment in heavy industry and coal, especially in Scotland and Wales. |
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| This year Tah Hsin has witnessed lackluster revenues due mainly to the weak demand for its two major items' windbreakers and raincoats in Europe and the United States. |
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| Lackluster economic growth and a precipitous fall in the stock market have hammered German banks. |
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