inadequateness

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I remember another, whom every muse inspired, skilful alike with the pencil and the pen, and by whom both were almost contemned for their inadequateness, in the height and scope of her aims.

From Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I by Fuller, Margaret

The inadequateness of the old symphonic form for translating into music imaginative conceptions arising from poems or pictures, and which necessarily must be presented in a fixed order, lies in its "recapitulation" section.

From Franz Liszt by Huneker, James

It is well—as no one would be more likely to contend than myself, who have attempted the task—to demonstrate the contradictions, the superficiality, the inadequateness, of the teaching of Rousseau, Voltaire, or Diderot.

From Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) Essay 8: France in the Eighteenth Century by Morley, John

Its imperfection or inadequateness in size and method I knew, but for the writing part of it, I was fully satisfied.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)

She—perhaps McTeague as well—felt that there was a certain inadequateness about the ceremony.

From McTeague by Norris, Frank