Lacking sophisticated technique, but resplendent with powerful imagery, his super-realistic images were unique, and his signature style is easily recognized.
He was very strong, but he lacked technique.
De Mille lacked flexibility and technique, though, and did not have a dancer's body.
Jenkins surfed while growing up in Southern California, but lacked technique.
The new technologies may reinforce the old prejudice, resurrected by Mr. Kennicott, that film composers lack traditional musical technique.
That is not to say her work lacks good technique.
His only drawback is that he lacks technique.
Asked the same question recently, she said that young singers lacked technique - "tecnica, tecnica."
Quick and athletic, he had potential as a pass rusher, but he lacked technique and experience.
But vocally, she essentially willed herself into the dramatic-soprano repertory despite lacking the requisite power and technique.