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
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
Presently a strange sense of inadequateness came over him.
From The Cow Puncher by Robert J. C. Stead
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
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 E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
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