incompleteness

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While personal accounts of the fair were enthusiastic, Olmsted wrote, “nearly always incompletenesses are referred to, favoring the idea that much remains to be done, and that the show will be better later.”

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

They pieced out incompletenesses, they provided clauses or sentences of connection, they toned down expressions deemed too bold, they improved Pascal’s style!

From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver

And so that brings me next to say a word or two about the more immediate purpose which explains all these gaps and incompletenesses.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI by Maclaren, Alexander

But He has no hindrances nor incompletenesses in His creative work, and the very sabbath rest with which the narrative closes symbolises, not His need of repose, but His perfect accomplishment of His purpose.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture by Maclaren, Alexander

That I frankly admit, and accept as one of the incompletenesses of contemporary Socialism.

From New Worlds For Old A Plain Account of Modern Socialism by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)