inability

Literacy was a critical focus for Parton, who has said she set up the Imagination Library because of her own father's inability to read, which "probably kept him from seeing all his dreams come true."

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

Mr. Statham, a not infrequently delightful actor whose main weakness is an inability to say no to mediocre projects, undertakes the usual heroic killing spree in “Mutiny,” a brief, reasonably compelling but shamelessly workmanlike feature.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

Finally, a catastrophic medical bill isn’t caused by a catastrophic event alone, but by high cost-sharing and, at an extremely vulnerable time, an inability to pay.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026

He says the modern digital world often leaves us inflicted by decision paralysis, external - the inability to choose because there are so many options.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

But the memories were so raw and so painful that my friends’ inability to find words to say after I’d finished only pushed me deeper into the sadness of what had happened.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer

Researchers also found partners expressed feelings of high stress, a diminished sense of personal growth and worth, difficulties or inabilities within their caregiving roles, and a general sense of feeling unsupported.

From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2025

But the rollout of aid has been slow, partly reflecting the Haitian government’s own inabilities to oversee and coordinate it, an echo of the problems following the 2010 quake.

From New York Times ● Aug. 16, 2021

Hewitt’s own inabilities aside, the actress can at least play the part.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2018

But these inabilities do not exceed the corporeal: physical growth is not a metaphor for emotional growth.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 31, 2018

The inabilities of the histrions themselves, is another matter.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 by Various