inadequateness
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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 John Morley
A very simple observation would have sufficed to make the philosophers, antecedent to Newton, feel the inadequateness of the causes they admitted to operate with such powerful effect.
From The System of Nature, Volume 1 by Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'Holbach
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
He was burdened by an overwhelming sense of clumsy inadequateness, and though he knew he could do nothing he asked anyway, "Can I do anything for you?"
From The Lost Wagon by James Arthur Kjelgaard
Presently a strange sense of inadequateness came over him.
From The Cow Puncher by Robert J. C. Stead
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