(1) In a four-week campaign, noticeable for its lacklustre feel in the wake of the draining bailout saga, almost every poll depicted a neck-and-neck race between the two main parties.
(2) He explained that in the last two weeks Local World began rolling out eight "content modules", which when completed make it much easier for local people to engage with the websites, admitting that it is a pretty lacklustre experience at present.
(3) But the Sunday Mirror's Kevin O'Sullivan thought the whole episode was a "lacklustre affair", from the plot to the dinosaur and robots who made an appearance.
(4) A pick-up in sales of swimwear, sandals and other holiday items was barely enough to offset the continuing decline in food sales and that left like-for-like sales up just 0.2% on February 2014, matching January’s lacklustre growth .
(5) He was eventually thrown out by a lacklustre landlord who finally listened to my trembling 3am calls for action.
(6) 7.2% is a huge rise compared with the lacklustre rise in wages.
(7) And forward guidance for the current quarter, of sequentially flatrevenues, was given a lacklustre reception.
(8) Computing had become lacklustre and even boring The Raspberry Pi started life as an idea to bring computing in schools back to the era of the BBC Micro in the early 1980s, which inspired children to learn how a computer worked and allowed them to discover what was possible through learning to code.
(9) Anaemic government spending, not profligacy, has been a major factor behind the economy's lacklustre recovery.
(10) He defended the lacklustre performance of Zlatan Ibrahimovic up front.
(11) Britain's lacklustre economic recovery is taking its toll on the labour market, with unemployment increasing by 38,000 over the three months to June - the largest jump since spring 2009, when the UK was in recession.
(12) Berlin, running the eurozone show increasingly and certain to shape the policy responses of the next few years in what is chancellor Angela Merkel's third and probably final term, is ridden with angst about France, and the lack of reforms being undertaken by the lacklustre François Hollande , France's least popular president ever.
(13) Particular criticism is being directed at the EU’s lacklustre maritime patrols in the Mediterranean.
(14) Berlusconi's remarks, combined with allegations at the weekend of a colossal slush fund at a bank traditionally close to the left, looked set to electrify a hitherto lacklustre campaign.
(15) His performance in the 2003 election was lacklustre, and he actually lost by a slim margin to his Peronist rival, the ageing Carlos Menem, but finally took the presidency by default when Menem bowed out of a second round of voting.
(16) BIG FAT AUDIENCE (FOR CHANNEL 4) Big Fat Quiz of the Year 2010, Channel 4, 9.30pm – after a lacklustre festive period in which Channel 4 avoided going head to head with the other channel's big guns, Channel 4 saved its ratings banker for the final bank holiday of the season.
(17) Her decision to hire Bradlee, then the Washington bureau chief of Newsweek, as editor in 1966 created the team which transformed the previously lacklustre Post's reputation.
(18) As the Scottish National party and devolution campaigners derided the proposals as "lacklustre" and half-hearted, Miliband insisted they would bring "people and power closer", signalling to hostile Labour backbenchers that the plans would be supported at Westminster.
(19) Foreign retailers have struggled to conquer Japan due to the toxic combination of intense competition and years of lacklustre economic growth.
(20) Tottenham steamroller lacklustre Stoke with Son Heung-min double Read more Two each at half-time and the match was in the balance.
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.