It’s strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.
It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.
There is no shorter road to defeat than by entering a war with inadequate preparation.
Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but more often result from simple mistakes caused by inadequate thought.
A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate.
The detail is as important as the essential is. When it is inadequate, it destroys the whole outfit.
Many health care providers, particularly physicians in rural and urban areas, are leaving the Government programs because of inadequate reimbursement rates.
When I left college I thought – based on a staggeringly inadequate understanding of how the world worked – that I might like to go into book publishing.
I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along.
It is important for people to be able to read all sides of every question; for a feeling of national unity does not come from one-sided or inadequate information, but from a sense of freedom impartially secured and of opportunity equalized by a just government.
Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man’s struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.
Yes, translation is by definition an inadequate substitute for being able to read a masterpiece in the original.
You’re trying to write about something that’s sacred. You’re trying to bring the seriousness of life and death to it, and you’re trying to find a way to dramatize it, and you’re trying to give language to it, which is inadequate. But it’s important to try.
If the Royal Navy and wider defence is to deliver on the ambitions of our country, we must tackle the inadequate funding and political thinking that undermine the best armed forces in the world.
Questions about form seem as hopelessly inadequate as questions about content.
Teaching methods are often inadequate for the goals faculties are trying to achieve. Important courses such as expository writing and foreign languages are frequently taught by untrained graduate students and underpaid adjunct teachers.
I’ve forgotten more about bad putting than all the lousy putters in the firmament combined. My mind has been twisted into an incurable, disturbing venue of bad speed and inadequate line. I just want to go out and not feel like I’m putting a Rubik’s Cube with a flimsy piece of rope.
When you look at magazines, you feel so inadequate and so small and you feel really imperfect, when you’re constantly seeing these images.
Americans understand that rising drug prices, wage stagnation and inadequate infrastructure affect everyone, regardless of race.
Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.
The Tamil Nadu government should seek the assistance of the Centre in tackling dengue situation. The efforts taken by the state government to control dengue was inadequate.
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