(1) A group of economists told the Wall Street Journal that is exactly what is happening : They blame our lackluster recovery this year on a pullback in spending and investment by US companies, which are afraid that the fallout from a fiscal cliff could compromise their ability to find funding or function normally.
(2) But leaders in both parties warned that a prolonged shutdown, and an associated decline in economic activity, could damage the lackluster economic recovery.
(3) Paraguay defeated Jamaica 1-0 Tuesday in a lackluster Group B match at the Copa América , giving the South Americans four points from their first two matches.
(4) Thank goodness for Kyrie Irving because without him this would have been one of the more lackluster All-Star Weekends in recent memory.
(5) The NSL rollback may have been the most sweeping recommendation made by the otherwise lackluster “review group”.
(6) An expert on the job markets, Yellen has been a staunch ally of Bernanke as he has tried to use low interest rates and QE to reanimate the US’s still-lackluster job market.
(7) Despite their lackluster results this year, GOP Super Pacs have far out-raised their Democratic counterparts, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics.
(8) Even as he faces a major new crisis and weeks of bad news to overcome – a lackluster GOP convention; deeply negative views of his handling of the attack in Libya; dissension in the campaign ranks – Romney is maintaining a remarkably light campaign schedule, York writes : He had one public appearance on his schedule Monday, Sept. 17, a speech to the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce in Los Angeles.
(9) Many of the production numbers were lackluster (an ecstatic duet between Jesse Mueller and Carole King excepted), though the dancing was of a very high order.
(10) However, lackluster consumer spending and inflation data on Monday curbed investor bets on when the next rate rise will be.
(11) Saturday Night Live: a lackluster episode as show comes to terms with Trump Read more When someone fits the bill, the show will bring that person back often, and Emma Stone seems poised to becoming a regular.
(12) Adding to his problems, Pryor's approval ratings are lackluster.
(13) While the media hysteria over Obama's lackluster performance is overstated, this strategy was a big political mistake.
(14) The answer is not for Obama to be aggressive as a means of over-compensating for his lackluster performance in Denver (a la Al Gore in 2000) but rather keep things as simple as possible.
(15) The president's overall job performance is similarly lackluster , with 43% approving, and 52 % disapproving.
(16) The lackluster start to the week comes as America's fragile economic recovery faces another crucial test as major US firms report their first-quarter earnings.
(17) 12.29am BST Half time thoughts Well that was perhaps predictably lackluster from the USA, with only the slightly anxious contribution of Johannsson standing out, as he showed neat touches to make a couple of half chances only for nerves to apparently get the better of him.
(18) Normally by the 82nd game of the regular season, the post-season seedings are set and the starters are resting in preparation for the playoffs, with fan support lackluster if they even show up at all.
(19) The Federal Reserve should keep in mind the lackluster growth we’ve seen throughout 2015 and continue to let the economy recover,” said Elise Gould , senior economist at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
(20) A number of donors to Jeb Bush’s campaign were reportedly jittery about sticking by him even before Wednesday’s lackluster performance in the Republican debate , but in the fierce competition among GOP presidential candidates to win seven- or eight-figure checks from multibillionaire businessman Sheldon Adelson, Marco Rubio has already emerged as the frontrunner, the Guardian can reveal.
Lustre
Definition:
(n.) Brilliancy; splendor; brightness; glitter.
(n.) Renown; splendor; distinction; glory.
(n.) A candlestick, chandelier, girandole, or the like, generally of an ornamental character.
(n.) The appearance of the surface of a mineral as affected by, or dependent upon, peculiarities of its reflecting qualities.
(n.) A substance which imparts luster to a surface, as plumbago and some of the glazes.
(n.) A fabric of wool and cotton with a lustrous surface, -- used for women's dresses.
(v. t.) To make lustrous.
(n.) Same as Luster.
Example Sentences:
(1) Disney's new chief executive, Bob Iger, has wasted no time restoring some lustre to the Magic Kingdom.
(2) When that lustre goes, however, we're just left with a large, unpleasant shop.
(3) The once pristine Boulevard Mobutu has lost its lustre.
(4) The macular changes consisted of an orange-like ophthalmoscopic appearance and a decreased macular lustre.
(5) The prime minister's officials played down the significance of the decision, which has taken some of the lustre off his coup of becoming the first European leader invited to Washington for talks with Obama since his inauguration in January.
(6) But has Frances botched her chances with lack-lustre flavour?
(7) For Max Hastings, as for Gove, the looming threat of a German Europe justified Britain's cause in the first world war and gives undying lustre to our boys' sacrifice in the trenches.
(8) Natalie Maines and the sisters Martie Maguire and Emily Robison have the lustre of women raised on healthy diets and quality grooming products.
(9) He may lack broadcasting experience, but his successful transformation of a much-loved British brand that had lost its lustre is seen by some as providing the perfect template for an ITV renaissance.
(10) During the long period when Caravaggio’s name had lost its lustre, many of his paintings found themselves reattributed to these Utrecht painters and vice versa: at some point 70% of the paintings in the National Gallery exhibition were said to be by Caravaggio.
(11) As a direct ingredient it would be easy to identify, but unfortunately mica remains as part of a complex mix of materials that are used to make colour pigments and lustres.” Boyd says the company has not knowingly purchased any materials containing natural mica since 2014.
(12) While the theory runs that the No 7's disquiet is due more to pay-rise jockeying than a love deficit of the Bernabéu, his performances have not lost lustre despite Madrid's poor start to La Liga.
(13) With 3D tickets costing on average 30% more at Odeon and Vue cinemas than other films, and with the added cost of glasses, which small children and those who wear contact lenses and spectacles often find uncomfortable, the format is losing its lustre.
(14) A method for tooth surface lustre measurements with a scanning reflectance sensor system is described.
(15) However, the Gujarat model begins to lose its lustre if you look at other development indicators.
(16) There are policies aplenty but the issue is how they hang together and whether Miliband possesses the strategic skills and has sufficient supporters, including among the Blairites and trade unions, as well as the personal lustre to deliver at a price the electorate is willing to pay.
(17) Pyne said on Wednesday the changes would add “lustre” to the parliament.
(18) Equally, his distinctive voice added lustre to the TV version of Animal Farm (1999), as Boxer.
(19) (5) Clinically the non-gamma2 amalgams are remarkable for superior marginal integrity and, seemingly, also for improved persistence of surface lustre.
(20) Erdoğan is regarded as having lost much of his international lustre.