In other words, Mr. Gentry said, the speech lacked style and substance.

They said the Mayor's speech lacked long-term solutions and was not tough enough on pressing the business community to do its part.

His own speech lacks power (compared to Antony's) because he assumes that people can be led by reason.

The speech lacked fresh initiatives for balancing the budget, analysts said.

His speech lacked the pauses and music of human language; Paks found it hard to follow, even though the words were pronounced correctly.

These patients could speak fluently, but their speech lacked meaning.

His speech was rambling and lacking in a firm answer on whether or not we can expect a Greek referendum.

Though this speech may have lacked a few percentage points of absolute believability, it contained sound truths.

Most of the time our speech lacks a certain decency.

That is what your speech was lacking.