But it cannot mask the frequent lapses into mechanical rhythms and predictable clichés.

She had frequent lapses of pain and for a time became addicted to pain medication.

"He's a doer, not a talker" is the way several Dole advisers put the message, using a formulation that makes a virtue out of the Senator's frequent lapses in eloquence.

The GAO report made national headlines in July 2009 as it cited frequent lapses, including failure to prevent investigators from carrying weapons into several key federal installations.

Mr. McDuff's Dostoyevsky survives its too frequent lapses and its too frequent notes.

She was so good, in fact, that Jourdain had decided to overlook the frequent lapses in her revolutionary vocabulary.

From frequent lapses of coordination between conductor and singers, one gathers that rehearsal was minimal.

He did it--apart from frequent lapses--but he was always grumbling about it.

With hindsight, it's clear that People expanded too rapidly, foolishly relying on a policy of unrestricted, rock-bottom fares to make up for frequent lapses in service.

Seton Hall endured a game of frequent lapses, but as it wound down to the final eight minutes, the Pirates made the big shots and played the best defense.