lacuna
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“Seurat and the Sea,” a scholarly and astonishingly beautiful show now at the Courtauld Gallery, and organized by Karen Serres, the museum’s senior curator of paintings, fills that critical lacuna.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 2026
“It’s been a lacuna, and it’s been something that I really never thought we’d have a prayer of fixing,” said Barron.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2025
This is related to a question of ethics, which is what is falling in that lacuna between greatness and crap that only criticism can both explicate and reify in some way.
From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2022
"You now have empty shelves. The return of those objects will be like filling those shelves. There's a lacuna in our history because those objects were taken away."
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2021
My minimal coverage of Japan in previous editions of Guns, Germs, and Steel constituted the most important geographic lacuna of my book.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
The epic we inherit is incomplete, a thing of lacunae and conjecture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
The lacunae in sources on Murrieta’s life is apparent in “Bring Me the Head of Joaquin Murrieta.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
The court found "there were some critical lacunae" in relevant Swiss regulations, including a failure to quantify limits on national greenhouse gas emissions.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2025
Mr Pathirana admits that there are "some lacunae or deficiencies" in relation to certain specialists like paediatricians and transplant surgeons.
From BBC ● Mar. 15, 2024
The corollary is that widespread and open trade in ideas is the best way to make up for the lacunae.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
They are, instead, lacunas to be reckoned with, stemming from the abiding obscurity of human psychology and deepened by the mercurial, ever-fading state of memory.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
Of course, we all have these lacunas in our reading histories.
From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2023
Finding those lacunas is part of the fun of this show.
From Washington Post ● May 3, 2018
But at its most persuasive, “First Person” is an aria on the necessity of self-invention, on the loops and lacunas of memory and the bullish inadequacy of all language.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 4, 2018
My tendency, on the contrary, is to feel with increased force the lacunas, deformities, and imperfections of the group to which I belong.
From Amiel's Journal by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
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