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In his ninth symphony he made his only confession of the inadequacy of his instrumental means.
HOW MUSIC DEVELOPEDW. J. HENDERSON
Inadequacy, helplessness, gaucherie, prove that the feelings are bigger than the eloquence.
THE CUP OF FURYRUPERT HUGHES
But in "Hamlet" the inadequacy of the stage is of another kind.
THE CONTEMPORARY REVIEW, JANUARY 1883VARIOUS
The 'felicific calculus' is enough to show the inadequacy of his method.
THE ENGLISH UTILITARIANS, VOLUME I.LESLIE STEPHEN
The inadequacy of the teaching, however, was not the primal cause of the characteristic.
EVOLUTION OF THE JAPANESE, SOCIAL AND PSYCHICSIDNEY L. GULICK
In both cases, wide differences of language and the inadequacy of translations to bridge the gap, lie at the root of the trouble.
THE SAYINGS OF CONFUCIUSCONFUCIUS
To Origen's mind, however, the inadequacy of philosophical injunctions was constantly made plain by the following considerations.
HISTORY OF DOGMA, VOLUME 2 (OF 7)ADOLPH HARNACK
As it was, I felt the inadequacy of my work, and I regretted it in the preface which owned its hasty performance.
YEARS OF MY YOUTHWILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS
These are the times that illustrate to a man the inadequacy of spoken language.
THE WORKS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON - SWANSTON EDITION VOL. 25 (OF 25)ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
And then, as if from a sense of the inadequacy of this explanation, “But you will not despair—you will come back?”
WASHINGTON SQUAREHENRY JAMES

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