Lacunae

Andrew Bacevich, the Boston University international affairs professor, called the lacunae between resources and strategy in Afghanistan “comparable” to the Vietnam strategy denounced by “a young John Kerry.” ❋ Unknown (2009)

Nonverbal cues and skewed messages all coalesce to produce what Johnson called lacunae in the superegos of the delinquent children, who appeared normal, appropriate, and law-abiding in specific areas of day-to-day living. ❋ Judith Marks Mishne (1986)

The calcified matrix of bone consists of cavities known as lacunae that are connected via a network of canals known as canaliculi, which carries interstitial fluid through the skeletal system. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"There is some kind of lacunae which needs to be worked out," she added. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Delhi: Four years after the RTI Act came into force, lack of mandatory monitoring mechanism for its implementation remains an important "lacunae" while government agencies are shying from disclosure of subsidies data worth several crores of rupees, vice president Hamid Ansari said ❋ Unknown (2009)

Delhi: Four years after the RTI Act came into force, lack of mandatory monitoring mechanism for its implementation remains an important "lacunae" while government agencies are shying from disclosure of ❋ Unknown (2009)

Nick Kent, Artistic Director of the Tricycle Theatre, who originally dreamed up and put together the The Great Game, was struck by the informational lacunae surrounding Afghanistan. ❋ Lauren Gunderson (2010)

If AGW is so damned riddled with unacceptable holes instead of truly difficult lacunae, maybe at least a few planetary climate scientists by now ought to have offered a better and more consistent alternative. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And if you put it in literary discourse, those gaps, that lacunae in the literary text; this was the place that Lacan enlisted on it as an effect of the unconscious, and Lacan said that when language fails to produce its effect as a communicative means, then that is the eruption of unconscious. ❋ Ehsan Azari Stanizai (2011)

But Spain, and the lacunae and skips and hops in the story have me all confused. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I was disturbed that I didn't know about the The Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments -- I really feel like they should have been in my book; a lacunae I will fix if there is ever another edition. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He focused on the largest indent and breathed but the holes in the moon reminded him not of a face but of lacunae, the holes in his body left behind by marauding white blood cells that multiplied and multiplied until they conquered the red cells and built their own fortresses, lemon-sized lumps circling his kidney. ❋ Linda Simoni-Wastila (2011)

Between those two sentences then is not just a lacunae, but the kernel of the prefigura that manifests through the entire prologue, from “Some places are too evil to be allowed to exist,” to “Some places are too evil to be allowed to exist.” ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)

Though the collection has fewer "gaps" than many museum collections, there are some significant lacunae. ❋ Jonathan Lopez (2011)