单词 | inaptness |
例句 | The Times of Israel reports that Obama has issued even direr threats—sorry, “warnings”—to the Jewish state: That points to the rather shocking inaptness of Kerry’s golf analogy. Kerry’s Perverse Warning 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z "The people were educated to loyalty," now, and it was high time to commence the punishment of those who had shown an inaptness to receive the lessons, or a distaste for the method of instruction. History of Morgan's Cavalry She stopped, the needle poised above Lee's arm, realizing the inaptness of her remark. Am I Still There? Then his seriousness and simplicity, like that of Biblical and Oriental writers,—a kind of childish inaptness and homeliness,—often exposes him to our keen, almost abnormal sense of the ridiculous. Whitman A Study She started to leave, furious with herself for her inaptness, and instead of going she paused and turned back. A Breath of Prairie and other stories Especially unfortunate, and finally disastrous to the American arms, was the inaptness and inertness of the Secretary of War, General Armstrong, in failing to adopt, promptly and adequately, measures to meet the emergency. The Battle of New Orleans including the Previous Engagements between the Americans and the British, the Indians and the Spanish which led to the Final Conflict on the 8th of January, 1815 You made my chance indisposition and occasional inaptness your minister—that is, the ground on which you now excuse yourself. Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher Yet the hardship lieth not in the inaptness of the teacher, but in the inability of the taught.” The Well in the Desert An Old Legend of the House of Arundel A moment's relaxation, or inaptness, may forfeit opportunity, offered only by chance and not to be regained by effort. Types of Naval Officers Drawn from the History of the British Navy Realising this, he did not quite understand why he rather liked it in the case of Emily Fox-Seton, though he only liked it remotely and felt his own inaptness a shade absurd. Emily Fox-Seton Being "The Making of a Marchioness" and "The Methods of Lady Walderhurst" In this hope he was deceived by his own inaptness and his adversary's readiness. The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence After an especially miserable showing of inaptness one morning, he flung down his driver in disgust. Best Short Stories "Oh, I'm sorry," murmured the girl, striving so hard to speak with impersonal unconcern that she did not notice the inaptness of her reply. Miss Billy — Married Apart from the tendency to convergent heredity already emphasised, there is a wider tendency to slight abnormality, a minor degree of inaptness for ordinary life in the parentage of genius. Essays in War-Time Further Studies in the Task of Social Hygiene The fault is not in any inaptness of the images, nor in the mere vulgarity of the things themselves, but in that of the associations they awaken. Among My Books First Series There is sometimes inaptness or remoteness in his resemblances. Poets of the South The last-mentioned character is a farmer, but, like the others, he is a species of incapable; and the word dandin in the old French dictionaries is given as signifying inaptness or incapacity. Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes From what is recorded of the infancy of Chatterton, parents may be satisfied that an inaptness to learn in childhood, is far from being a prognostic of future dullness. Lives of the English Poets From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's Lives Sometimes, as her voice rose clear and sweet to my open windows, I answered remarks addressed to me with an inaptness that only Mrs. Yocomb understood. A Day of Fate As we clambered on, two bushmen all in white, a dog or two, and a woman in a holland riding-dress, the Maluka pointed out the inaptness of the simile. We of the Never-Never She well knew that her calmness and courage were entirely due to the inaptness of Clameran. File No. 113 "He has never expressed any anxiety," Grace began, with her inaptness at evasion. Dr. Breen's Practice |
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