Although "Pane" held the attention with its sheer unpredictability, it was curiously lacking in emotional impact, for there appeared to be no reason for its shifts of tone.

First, a recent employee and friend of Kinsey's, Parnell Perkins, is shot and killed - and the police investigation seems curiously lacking in results.

Yet the discussion as a whole is curiously lacking in impact.

The tale is fairly simple, and curiously lacking in suspense.

Less satisfying was shrimp shag, a mixture of spinach and small shrimp that was curiously lacking in flavor.

It had, as he'd read in a poem, made of his heart a stone, left him curiously lacking in emotion.

Despite their advancement, the Martians' technology curiously lacks the wheel, and they are implied to be ignorant of disease and decomposition.

Goebel's routine curiously lacked excitement even as he proceeded through the most difficult long program ever skated at the national championships.

For all the emotion that was stirred up last week, the Jets were curiously lacking in fire in a game they wanted to win for Edwards and to salvage their season.

On the other hand, adults can be curiously lacking in perception.