Vallejo could have been it but he's lacked dedication.

To the Editor: If communities are resorting to corporal punishment, it reveals that the adults lack the discipline, patience and dedication required to be good parents and educators.

They whisper that he doesn't backcheck, that he doesn't always hustle, that he's an aloof personality in the dressing room, that he lacks desire and dedication.

Honey did fairly well in medical school, but she lacked dedication.

She had been the least social of all the members of the crew, but she had never lacked discipline, dedication, or enthusiasm for her work.

He lacked not aptitude or dedication, but merely suffered from poor and insufficient prior training.

Last-Minute Failure "I have thousands of pages of handwritten revisions of the script," said Michael Fitzgerald, a producer who defended Welles against accusations that he lacked discipline and dedication.

Appointed as the first full-time chief executive of Prince Harry's charity Sentebale last year, Kedge Martin, could never be accused of lacking dedication.

Though smart enough, he'd lacked the ambition and dedication of the man who had sired him and had taken the easy path too often ... unlike herself.

A 2006 review by Simon noted that Donna lacked dedication to her job, and was easily distracted by her love life.