It seems this nation's "war footing" lacks a certain resolve and urgency.

They lack agility and urgency, qualities that are all the more important when your attack is short of penetration.

The show seems to lack urgency or edge.

Her team seemed to be lacking the energy and urgency it needed against a team that had beaten them the last two meetings.

Time in those days lacked urgency or precision.

The result is a campaign that for now at least lacks thrust and urgency.

Her motions were moderately slow, as if she lacked urgency.

Yet in doing so the music sometimes lacks urgency.

Schmidt's music has its lush moments, but lacks dramatic urgency.

Which makes it all the more frustrating that "Discretion" lacks narrative urgency.