It lacks the lateral lines across the skull that served as an adaptation for earlier aquatic tetrapods and their ancestors.

She looked back to remember him as she had known him before he left Qualinesti, beardless and lacking the lines of care and worry she saw now on his face.

Furthermore, the underside of the abdomen is lacking the two longitudinal grey lines.

Her facial tone was waxy and smooth-not unattractive, but lacking the lines and creases of habitual expression.

The Cenlac wasn't all that large, and the ferry lacked the weatherly lines of a blue-water craft.

Like many old-fashioned buildings, this one lacked the severe lines of more modern structures.

"They are lacking of tongue, for they never speak to us, lacking the fine lines and good designs and functional qualities," he wrote.

It lacks the swooping lines of a classic "Gehry building."

But Abivard's face still lacked the lines of character the years had etched across Godarz's features.

"He seemed intelligent and sincere and his profile lacked the gimmicky lines about wanting to share candlelit dinners and walks on the beach," she said.