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 Morley, John

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 Mahaffy, J. P.

But what remains true is, that feeling the inadequateness of pagan philosophy, he returned for a moment towards Christianity.

From Saint Augustin by O'Sullivan, Vincent

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 Huneker, James

New ideas and new 'experiments in living' would not arise, if there were not a certain inadequateness in existing ideas and ways of living.

From On Compromise by Morley, John