Mr. Garbuz failed to soar in his variation and both dancers lacked lightness.

Although the play is even-handedly staged by Steve Karp and acted with an admirable semblance of coherence, the playwright lacks the lyricism and lightness to evoke the wonder of nature or the inevitability of the absurd.

Like the chansons they are permeated with the stylistic influence of the Italian forms and show delight in the bawdy, the roistering, and the comic, but unlike the chansons they lack poetry, elegance, and lightness.

The crab meat was fresh-flavored, but the two little cakes, flecked with bits of green and red pepper, were smooshed and compressed into flat patties, lacking the loose texture and lightness that is usually preferable in a crab cake.

Some of this underscoring can of course be attributed to Mr. Taccone's staging, which lacks lightness.

In the Mozart Rondo in C (K. 373), Mr. Yang also lacked Classical warmth and lightness of touch.

However, in due course Tamurello came to feel that Desmei, to an enervating degree, lacked both lightness and grace.