inadequateness
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These considerations tend not only to vindicate the inadequateness of this review, but perhaps even to justify it in the eyes of the exacting reader, who may have expected a more thorough survey.
From Rambles and Studies in Greece by J. P. Mahaffy
It does not apply to a will which is infected with inadequateness of self expression.
From Landmarks of Scientific Socialism "Anti-Duehring" by Friedrich Engels
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 Margaret Fuller
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 James Huneker
The acquiescence for so many centuries in the power of the great directing organisation of Western Europe, notwithstanding its intellectual inadequateness, was the decisive expression of that rejection.
From Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) by John Morley
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