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

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

She—perhaps McTeague as well—felt that there was a certain inadequateness about the ceremony.

From McTeague by Norris, Frank

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 Morley, John

One point, however, should be observed in any inquiry into the reasons for the inadequateness of these ages' feeling for nature; that many latent sympathies may never have found a voice.

From Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature by McLaughlin, Edward Tompkins