inadequateness

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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 Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'

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 Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)

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.

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

From McTeague by Norris, Frank

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