impracticability

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There is no writer of the present day who has so much puzzled me by his eccentricities, impracticabilities, and capabilities as Charles Reade.

From Autobiography of Anthony Trollope by Trollope, Anthony

The good sister alternately deals effective blows against Mr. George's impracticabilities and urges upon the rich, alike ecclesiastical as lay, the inauguration of true anti-poverty from the top of society....

From Eden An Episode by Saltus, Edgar

This was, however, not the first nor the last time that scientific men had predicted impracticabilities with electricity which afterwards blossomed into full success.

From Inventions in the Century by Doolittle, William Henry

But his impracticabilities lose him the place after a very short incumbency; he crosses to Italy; sees Naples, Amain, and Vesuvius; sees, and knows well at Rome, our American painter, Washington Allston.

From English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges by Mitchell, Donald G.

The plan of reconstruction, as here presented, embodied many impracticabilities and impossibilities, but it indicated in broad outlines the propositions to be discussed in the succeeding months.

From The Struggle between President Johnson and Congress over Reconstruction by Chadsey, Charles Ernest