| 单词 | incompleteness |
| 例句 | While personal accounts of the fair were enthusiastic, Olmsted wrote, “nearly always incompletenesses are referred to, favoring the idea that much remains to be done, and that the show will be better later.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The pattern of evolutionary causality is a web of astonishing complexity; the incompleteness of our understanding humbles us. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z While physicists in the middle decades of the twentieth-century were looking perplexedly into the world of the very small, astronomers were finding no less arresting an incompleteness of understanding in the universe at large. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z But as he lay there on the cool stones, Jason felt a sense of incompleteness. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z They cabled Ferris, “Unwise to open wheel to public until opening day because of incompleteness and danger of accidents.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z While none of these songs fall into a defined genre, they’re linked by their off-kilter vocal styles and a feeling of lo-fi incompleteness — a decaying quality similar to that of bypassed tunes. How Roblox Sparked a Chaotic Music Scene 2021-05-16T04:00:00Z Neruda is annoyed and sometimes amused by the detective’s doggedness, but Peluchonneau is haunted by the poet’s mystique, and by a growing sense of his own incompleteness. Review: ‘Neruda’ Pursues the Poet as Fugitive 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z The other problem was, of course, incompleteness: single acts and extracts of Wagner, when done this well, leave you longing to hear the whole work. Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg – review 2013-02-13T17:17:51Z The movie wants to apply the Austrian logician Kurt Gödel’s theorems of incompleteness to the lives of its characters. | 'Domain': ?Domain,? Written and Directed by Patric Chiha - Review 2012-01-12T22:19:40Z Here De Sica frames another mire of miscommunication in a movie of frustrations and incompleteness. Why Vittorio de Sica is one of Europe’s greatest tragic film-makers 2015-08-08T04:00:00Z One thing that can happen after an event like that is that we go on in a state of incompleteness, of incomplete mourning. Guys keep dumping me 2012-09-04T00:00:00Z These fudging techniques seem a deliberate attempt to both atomise and unify, perhaps in an effort to consider a shared legacy of colonialism and the inaccuracy or incompleteness of historical narratives. Gone to the Forest by Katie Kitamura – review 2013-02-06T08:00:01Z It asks the listener to complete the picture, or even better, to get comfy in the incompleteness. Review | Bill Callahan found domestic bliss. Then he wrote the great apocalypse ballad of 2019. 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z Slowly, this incompleteness gives way to a sense of wholeness, if not closure; these stories, after all, are just beginning. Movie Review: ‘Palo Alto,’ About Adolescents Stumbling Toward Adulthood 2014-05-08T21:44:34Z These lines could support a contention that the novel's apparent incompleteness is in fact intentional. In search of David Foster Wallace's Pale King 2011-04-08T09:17:13Z The mathematician Kurt Gödel upended his profession’s assumptions with his “incompleteness theorem,” presented in 1930, when he was 24. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2021 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z It's the movie's very incompleteness that allows them to fill in the blanks. "Best Worst Movie": The cult of the truly bad film 2010-05-14T20:12:00Z A tale of divinity and mortality, madness and control, “The Bacchae” is a mysterious and captivating piece, enticing in its incompleteness. Review: ‘Karaoke Bacchae’ Puts a Spin on Euripides 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Berlin’s ardent, idiosyncratic techno culture, evolving amid what Schneider calls “the weirdness, perpetual incompleteness and outlandishness of Berlin,” has many roots, both momentous and mundane. Big Bang in Berlin 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z But Rowley's assessment of Khashoggi through "Kingdom of Silence" acknowledges the profile's incompleteness, as any truthful portrait of a man and his contradictions would be. "Kingdom of Silence": A wrenching look at how Jamal Khashoggi's life is a story as big as his death 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z Gödel’s “incompleteness theorem,” which he presented in 1930, when he was 24, upended his profession’s assumption that mathematics should be able to prove a mathematical statement that is true. A New Biography of Kurt Gödel, Whose Brilliant Life Intersected With the Upheavals of the 20th Century 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z As Max keeps repeating “Jesus, or good Christ, or Jesus H. Christ,” Martin evinces a preference for the trinity of Einstein, Heisenberg and Gödel, or “relativity, uncertainty, incompleteness.” In Don DeLillo’s New Novel, Technology Is Dead. Civilization Might Be, Too. 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z And the most compelling projects in “The Milk of Dreams” delve right into the incompleteness and instability of the modern world, rather than trying to get back to the garden. Looking Inward, and Back, at a Biennale for the History Books 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z More than usual, one felt the symphony’s incompleteness. Review | Noseda returns to the NSO podium and, just in time, finds the narrative 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z While playing with notions of incompleteness, “Broken Theater” is one of the more ambitious and fully realized works at this year’s festival. At La MaMa, a Dance Festival That Embraces States of Change 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z There’s something that about the level of ambiguity and incompleteness offered by both shows that reminds me of prose; both require the listener or reader to fill in the blanks. The Strange Pleasures of Watching Radio 2013-07-24T16:53:29Z That effort, for all its incompleteness and halting progress over the last three decades, is by the standards of American urban history unprecedented in scope. Why the Expo Line to Santa Monica marks unprecedented progress in the history of American cities 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Yet Gates writes here as a historian, and the historian can chronicle progress, assess its origins and commemorate its course while noting its incompleteness. Henry Louis Gates Jr. on African-American Religion 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z These poems understand nothing so well as their own inevitable incompleteness—that no composition could contain everything, that every history is partial. The Apocalyptic Visions of Ariana Reines 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z Throughout the album, there’s ample blank space — Mr. El Khatib’s preferred mode is strategic incompleteness. New Releases From the Decemberists, Hanni El Khatib and Duane Eubanks 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z The incompleteness of the narrative intensifies the vivid scenes and characters, conveying the emotional loss of Helen and her family. 'February': Life in the wake of a Newfoundland tragedy 2010-04-14T21:28:00Z But as the day for the transfer of power from Rio to Brasilia approached, unease at the incompleteness and cost of the project began to sweep through Brazil. Oscar Niemeyer obituary 2012-12-06T00:35:38Z For her, people were complete in their radical weakness, their necessarily human incompleteness. Review: ‘The Complete Stories,’ by Flannery O’Connor 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z It was that same sense of incompleteness that led her to take a break from the theater. How Her Ancestors Reignited Her Return to Theater 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z “The desert is God’s canvas,” José is fond of saying, but the sounds of blowing wind, barely audible throughout most of the play, drive home the incompleteness of this aphorism. Art, life and disappointment in the deserts of 1950s Mexico 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z In 1974, troubled by the incompleteness of the Faber Complete Nonsense, I urged her to unite his nonsense verse, published and unpublished. Vivien Noakes obituary 2011-03-04T16:06:57Z Similarly, who knows if Patino would have satisfactorily filled in the gaps displaying his plot incompleteness with extra hours? A Second Civil War and too many plotholes plague "DMZ," HBO Max's latest dystopian adaptation 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z And his lost arm seems to echo a feeling of incompleteness within the clients — especially gay men — who court and use him. | 'One Arm': Hustler on the Streets, Missing Both a Limb and a Capacity to Feel 2011-06-10T02:01:04Z Between them, implies Shepard, they embody the incompleteness of American experience. Review 2010-05-19T00:01:00Z While males were seen as whole and pristine, the female body was historically thought of "in terms of incompleteness or inversion," according to an analysis of Greek texts, including Aristotle. The history of the word "vagina" illuminates our persistent problem with biased reproductive health 2023-09-17T04:00:00Z The halting problem is a direct application of mathematician Kurt Gödel’s incompleteness theorems, which state that not all mathematical statements can be proved. These Are the Most Bizarre Numbers in the Universe 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z But in her incompleteness, she also lets her descendants project new possibilities for themselves, whole orientations unfolding from a few shattered words. Review | A brilliant novel about the dreams and desires of queer women 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z “I can not fully ever completely express the incompleteness I feel living my life,” Modrano told the committee. States push to enshrine protections for tribal children 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z This broken, raw, incompleteness on the young male models — much like the shards of plaster crunching under guests’ feet — gave the collection an emotional depth, evoking a sense of vulnerability and innocence. Loewe’s minimalist Paris show explores Old Masters, boyhood 2023-01-21T05:00:00Z Due to the incompleteness of the remains of other large carcharodontosaurs, Meraxes offered the first evidence of forelimb reduction in this group. Argentine 'gargoyle' shows how huge predatory dinosaurs evolved 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z Maybe, instead of returning to the familiarity of my younger self, I was trying to complete an incompleteness. Perspective | 20 ways of thinking about nostalgia from a year of backward listening 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z Hofstadter is obsessed, I’d say it’s fair to say, with things that refer to, talk about or otherwise interact with themselves—notably Gödel’s incompleteness theorem, a proof about the limits of proofs. Is There a Thing, or a Relationship between Things, at the Bottom of Things? 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z Gödel’s incompleteness theorem implies that both mathematics and physical reality will challenge us with “inexhaustible” problems. Can Science Survive the Death of the Universe? 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z What he stresses, though, is the incompleteness of the technology operating by itself. Tom Cruise deepfake creator says public shouldn’t be worried about ‘one-click fakes’ 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z In the first stage, papers are examined by in-house staff who check for issues such as plagiarism and incompleteness. How swamped preprint servers are blocking bad coronavirus research 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z There is even wonder in the feeling of incompleteness that lingers at the end of many of the stories. Review: New tales for L’Engle fans in ‘Moment of Tenderness’ 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z "As much as I thank the UK for being a safe haven for me and giving me refuge, there's a feeling of incompleteness," Yemane, a 35-year-old from Eritrea, says quietly. In a hurry? Here's your five-minute briefing 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z To practice Advent is to lean into an almost cosmic ache: our deep, wordless desire for things to be made right and the incompleteness we find in the meantime. Opinion | Want to Get Into the Christmas Spirit? Face the Darkness 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z Nervousness, disappointment, and incompleteness, these adjectives seem to be synonymous with the Millennial experience. Google: A Millennial’s Magic 8 Ball 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z When this relative incompleteness of rock layers that would preserve fossil parts is added to the equation, interpreting patterns of species presence during this key episode in our planet’s history becomes complicated. Ancient plants escaped the end-Permian mass extinction 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z More than a few of these books conclude with Gödel’s incompleteness theorems and their famously difficult proofs. The Entertainer 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z Austrian mathematician Kurt Gödel is known for his ‘incompleteness’ theorems.Credit: Machine learning leads mathematicians to unsolvable problem 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z Does Gödel’s incompleteness theorem have implications beyond mathematics? Philosophy Has Made Plenty of Progress 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z Kurt Gödel settled this subject in mathematics with his incompleteness theorems in 1931. Readers Respond to the June 2018 Issue 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z Does Gödel’s incompleteness theorem mean that our knowledge will always be incomplete, or is that as dumb as saying that relativity means that everything is relative? Why Does Jim Holt Exist? 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z Dyson hoped Godel’s incompleteness theorem might apply to physics as well as to mathematics. Freeman Dyson's Solution to the Problem of Evil 2018-05-12T04:00:00Z But the undecidability in the latest results is “of a rare kind”, and much more surprising, O’Hearn adds: it points to what Gödel found to be an intrinsic incompleteness in any mathematical language. Machine learning leads mathematicians to unsolvable problem 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z Takahata underscores the authenticity of the moment by having the watercolor backgrounds fade into the surrounding white paper, suggesting the incompleteness of memory. Studio Ghibli co-founder Isao Takahata was a true poet of Japanese animation 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z Gödel’s incompleteness theorems did expose the limitations of mathematics as a self-contained logical process. Readers Respond to the June 2018 Issue 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z The enduring incompleteness of life in liberal societies, which ask citizens to embrace an abstract concept of equal citizenship and humanity, will always be a vulnerability. Populism’s Challenge to Democracy 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z However, such statistical analyses are sensitive to several complicating effects, such as the incompleteness of current galaxy catalogues or the need for dedicated follow-up surveys, and to a range of selection effects24. A gravitational-wave standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant : Nature : Nature Research 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z Overall, this updated catalogue of XCI across human tissues helps to increase our understanding of the extent and impact of the incompleteness in the maintenance of XCI. Landscape of X chromosome inactivation across human tissues : Nature : Nature Research 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z He wants to understand “the amount of information currently missing in the fossil record, because its intrinsic incompleteness and patchiness affects our interpretation of changing diversity, and of how species like dinosaurs, went extinct.” A glimpse of when Canada's badlands were a lush dinosaur forest by the sea | Elsa Panciroli 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z The incompleteness of the way we talk about gender is original and terminal. What are men to do in the age of Trump? 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z If the FBI remained silent about the newly discovered incompleteness of its earlier investigation, it would be deliberately leaving uncorrected a misleading statement being used by the Clinton campaign to its political advantage. James Comey did the right thing 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z In trying to theorize suggestibility, the Surrealists missed some of the ways in which suggestibility works: through analogy, understatement and incompleteness. Strangely Enough 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z The main subject is ostensibly the incompleteness of the justice system: the way it fails to account for ambiguity, human flaws, and chance. The Night Of is just a Law & Order: SVU you're not embarrassed to watch 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z The incompleteness of the data is a shortcoming of the analysis, but not one for which the AP is to blame. State Graft 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z Army Corps of Engineers, Wolf said, and its unfinished appearance represents the incompleteness of Boehmer’s life. Memorial erected in Parkston in honor of fallen soldier 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z And, anyway, it would all come to nothing if not incompleteness. Waiting for Gödel 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z But even in its incompleteness, the impression the list leaves is of a totally undisciplined candidate oblivious to the notion that leading the headlines is not always a good thing. Trump just squandered a critical seven weeks of the general-election campaign 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen argued that this points to a fundamental incompleteness in quantum theory– that there must be some deeper reality in which those measurement outcomes are defined in advance. The Role Of Philosophy In Physics 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z The very incompleteness of the verses can heighten the starkness of the emotions—a fact that a number of contemporary classicists and translators have made much of. How Gay Was Sappho? 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z The officers said there was obvious incompleteness in the plans but also flaws hidden more deeply so Iran would not be able to detect them. The Catch-22 of federal leak cases 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z Gödel’s masterpiece was his incompleteness theorem, which ranks in scientific folklore with Einstein’s relativity and Heisenberg’s uncertainty. Waiting for Gödel 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z Doctors and the drug and device industry warn that the data are of limited value because of incompleteness and a lack of context. Obamacare Sunshine Act sheds light on $3.5B paid to doctors In one of his famous ‘incompleteness’ theorems, Gödel showed that only adding extra, ‘meta-mathematical’ axioms can make arithmetic consistent. Enigmatic foundations of maths put to music 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z Even with complaints of mistakes and incompleteness, Wikipedia has a powerful reach. Wikipedia pops up in bibliographies, and even college curricula 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z She noted that she had added caveats about the incompleteness of the initial assessment when she presented it. Susan Rice Affirms View That P.O.W. Served With ‘Honor’ 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z This month, a group of latter-day Gödelians convened on Thursday nights for a crash course in incompleteness, on the roster at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. Waiting for Gödel 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z "We found a degree of lack of coherence and incompleteness in the documents which render them less than authoritative," stated Saudi Arabian officials. Future of the net debated in Brazil 2014-04-22T23:36:39Z The language must also allow incompleteness and inconsistency because laws don’t always provide complete answers. Big Data And Privacy: An Uneasy Face-Off For Government To Face 2014-03-12T21:45:00Z In sharp contrast, “intelligent cities” seek to mobilize technologies to eliminate incompleteness. Open Sourcing The Neighborhood 2013-11-10T15:35:00Z But Munro writes about incompleteness—the impossibility of completing anything, and the fragmentariness of our understanding of other people and even ourselves. Short Story Master Deserves Top Book Prize 2013-10-10T16:35:26Z The importance of Gödel’s incompleteness theorems for artificial intelligence is something that remains hotly debated. Deepwater oil spill a 'classic failure' of BP management, court hears 2013-02-26T18:05:01Z In a very meta sort of way, the art of discovery through paint and the game’s palette itself mirror the incompleteness of the painting — and of Monroe. The Solitary Journey of Chasing 'The Unfinished Swan' 2012-10-17T14:30:35Z The logician Kurt Godel demonstrated more than 60 years ago through his incompleteness theorem that ‘it is impossible to codify mathematics,’ Thurston notes. How William Thurston (RIP) Helped Bring About "The Death of Proof" 2012-08-24T18:15:05.483Z Often it's a matter of timing, sometimes a sense of some lingering incompleteness, the vampiric lure of unspent possibilities. With Mark Ramprakash goes the last imprint of an era of cricket 2012-07-06T22:02:04Z First is the internal drive to help people to discover their strengths and talents, but also to realize their weaknesses and incompleteness. How GERM is infecting schools around the world 2012-06-29T04:58:09Z This incompleteness is almost always a serious distraction from the game. Epic's Tim Sweeney Says Free-To-Play Is The Future Of Gaming Industry 2012-06-27T17:45:53Z The Citadel is the fortress built on the hill above the city, but which, with the Oriental incompleteness of that time, was reared upon high but not upon the highest ground. The Rulers of the Mediterranean 2012-04-25T02:00:58.380Z There is added to this in young persons, a sense of incompleteness. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis 2012-04-08T02:00:21.793Z He showed that there had been 1,100 conflagrations, with 10,000 fatalities, and he apologized for the incompleteness of his figures. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z And that, given the incompleteness of Genesis, the added explanation must vary with the intellect, training, and temper of the expositor, e.g. Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z He strikes one nail a blow or two, then another, and so on until a dozen or more are in all stages of incompleteness. Special Method in the Reading of Complete English Classics In the Grades of the Common School 2012-03-17T02:01:04.053Z The conditions of the evil lie in human nature itself, in the incompleteness of its evolution; of the present stage the injustice of present law is a part. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z Philosophy could remove this sense of incompleteness, but only at the cost of love; and love was to Virgil, as his poetry shows, the very essence of life. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z They can and do point out the incompleteness of merely egoistic Epicureanism; they exhort us to care for the pleasures of others as we do for our own. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z It is accordingly the very characteristic of virtue to signalise its own incompleteness: it emerges into actuality only through antagonism, and with a taint of imperfection clinging to it. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z Yet he had failed to reach his highest development; and how was it that he was so content with this incompleteness, nay, the serenest of men? Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z A variation, which makes its possessor different from the parents, is often interpretable as due to some incompleteness of inheritance or in the expression of the inheritance. Herbert Spencer 2012-02-29T03:00:20.773Z Further, the whole story of �neas is an utterance of man's craving for God, of the sense of man's incompleteness without a divine complement. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z From the point of view of the employer, the incompleteness of the correlation between tests and direct measures is of little concern. Vocational Psychology: Its Problems and Methods 2012-02-24T03:00:25.813Z But from the higher point of view the existence, and still more the accentuation of single virtues, is a mark of incompleteness. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z "God's greatness shines around our incompleteness, Round our restlessness His rest!" Out of a Labyrinth 2012-02-17T03:00:38.887Z And both denominations are noteworthy for their very incompleteness, which testifies indirectly to the restricted area and to the modest aims of domanial cultivation. Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History 2012-02-15T03:00:35.553Z We have conjectured a reason for this incompleteness. American Military Insignia 1800-1851 2012-02-04T03:00:18.780Z But there is probably another factor in part responsible for the incompleteness of the correlations between test records and direct measures of vocational success. Vocational Psychology: Its Problems and Methods 2012-02-24T03:00:25.813Z Many details are, to all appearance, wanting on account of the incompleteness of the series, but those which remain seem to indicate that the motive of the whole story was as outlined here. The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia 2012-02-02T03:04:35.567Z Tragedy becomes inherent in character, in the incompleteness that marks the best and mightiest of mankind. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z The field is vast; the vegetation in it is infinite; we must content ourselves with incompleteness. Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History 2012-01-01T03:00:07.953Z It is the result of the incompleteness of his knowledge. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z One of the most serious aspects of our unpreparedness for any military conflict lies in the incompleteness of the present system. Our National Defense: The Patriotism of Peace 2011-12-14T03:00:16.577Z Any element of morals or implied reference to a standard of good and evil in art is often a sign of a certain incompleteness of vision. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z The completeness of a work of art is to some a refuge from the incompleteness of actuality; to others this completeness is more incomplete than any incident of their own experience. English Book-Illustration of To-day Appreciations of the Work of Living English Illustrators With Lists of Their Books 2011-11-30T03:00:10.703Z But I prefer to regard it, as I do the windows, and doors, and arches of pointed architecture, as an emblem of the incompleteness of our worship here. Stones of the Temple Lessons from the Fabric and Furniture of the Church 2011-11-11T03:00:36.693Z In the case of two of them, which were nearest to the condition in which they were ultimately to appear, evidences of their incompleteness in his own eyes are plainly seen in the manuscripts. Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature 2011-10-29T02:00:13.050Z Nor do I think the scientific community is doing a bad job of talking about uncertainty and the incompleteness of the science. Dot Earth Blog: A Climate Analyst Analyzes His Own Approach to CO2 2011-09-27T17:28:08Z German philosophers who may accidentally cast a glance over these pages will superciliously shrug their shoulders at the meagreness and incompleteness of all that which I here offer. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z The incompleteness of this evidence may appear from examples. The Relations of Science and Religion The Morse Lecture, 1880 2011-09-11T02:00:11.613Z Here was an insolent exultation tempered by a still more insolent regret; and the very incompleteness of the triumph engraved it the deeper with the stamp of harsh reality. My Lord Duke 2011-09-09T02:01:11.940Z “Whom I would fain have kept with me”; the tense of the verb indicating the incompleteness of the desire. The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z More than two centuries earlier the pious Superior of the Ursuline Convent, Mère de l'Incarnation, had referred, in her own gentle way, to their incompleteness. Count Frontenac Makers of Canada, Volume 3 2011-09-09T02:01:02.147Z “Now we are discovering that we can’t live with this incompleteness any longer,” he said. Euro Zone Leaders Get Warning From E.C.B. 2011-09-05T14:56:34Z "It's a constant state of incomplete information and the consequence of that incompleteness is discounted stock prices, which means a higher cost of capital," he added. Analysis: Company report pace frustrates accounting experts 2011-08-16T05:53:11Z Ralegh's efforts to avert complete ruin—True greatness—Keeps in touch with life—First two years—The history—The first sentence—Reasons for incompleteness—James's dislike of the work—Its greatness. Great Ralegh 2011-08-16T02:00:43.100Z He also criticized European politicians for “the undisciplined communication and the complexity and incompleteness” of the package agreed to at the summit meeting on July 21. European Central Bank Buys Bonds to Reassure the Markets, to Little Avail 2011-08-04T23:30:12Z Perhaps in this instance George Eliot modelled the character too much according to a philosophical conception, instead of projecting it, complete in its incompleteness, as it might have come from the hand of Nature. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z A sense of incompleteness—or of something still awaiting fulfilment—is as disastrous to the success of an article as it is to the success of a book. The Lure of the Pen A book for Would-Be Authors 2011-07-26T02:00:15.573Z The incompleteness of the child's understanding gives only a keener incisiveness to the satire embodied in his narrative. Critical Studies 2011-07-21T02:00:20.463Z The Incarnation, the union of God and man, of Creator and creation, supplies the solution of the problem raised by the incompleteness and death all around us. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z The complexity of such social studies sufficiently explains their present incompleteness. Mentally Defective Children 2011-06-19T02:00:24.963Z “God’s greatness shines around our incompleteness, Round our restlessness His rest!” Dangerous Ground or, The Rival Detectives 2011-06-11T02:00:11.853Z Their apparent incompleteness should seem due to the author having insufficient time—not insufficient knowledge—to finish them. The Lure of the Pen A book for Would-Be Authors 2011-07-26T02:00:15.573Z Here he sees incompleteness, fragmentary careers, tragedies, injustice, griefs and farewells, and he hungers for knowledge. The Universe a Vast Electric Organism 2011-06-09T02:00:22.450Z In so far as they asserted or implied the incompleteness of the scientific view of life they were almost wholly right. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z Children, with their innate conservatism, have stored a vast assemblage of odds and ends which fascinate by their very incompleteness. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z They pieced out incompletenesses, they provided clauses or sentences of connection, they toned down expressions deemed too bold, they improved Pascal’s style! French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z There was also an incompleteness in the pictures which he called finished; in short, the want of steadfastness, which made him an unfaithful husband and father, went far to lessen his artistic merit. St. Nicholas Vol. XIII, September, 1886, No. 11 An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks 2011-05-07T02:00:31.650Z The non-existence and the incompleteness of these plays are explicable on other grounds than those of inclination. Oscar Wilde A Critical Study 2011-05-04T02:00:14.580Z It is necessary to distinguish three things: falsity of statement, incompleteness of statement, and the drawing of disputable conclusions. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z Dr. Gilbert added that it was too early to analyze the Japanese accident because of the incompleteness of the picture. Drumbeat of Nuclear Fallout Fear Doesn?t Resound With Experts 2011-05-02T21:13:55Z Look in this connection to the brevity of life; its incompleteness; its aimless, random, and fragmentary carreers; tragedies; its injustices; its sorrows and separations. Memoirs of Orange Jacobs 2011-05-01T02:00:10.143Z Dearly as she loved her kind guardian and friend, she was still a little shy of him; a consciousness of girlish incompleteness, of undeveloped youth, haunted her perpetually. Heriot's Choice A Tale 2011-04-20T02:00:22.760Z But the only true consolation is our faith in the incompleteness of the world as we see it, and in the ultimate completeness of the Divine plan. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z There is incompleteness, and the force ever ascends to a higher form. Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z The Tenses indicate the time of action, and its state of completeness or incompleteness. The International Auxiliary Language Esperanto Grammar and Commentary 2011-04-12T02:00:28.753Z If a critical ear might cavil at the incompleteness or inaptitude of his similes, to the warm imagination and excited fancy of the Irish peasant they had no such blemishes. The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) 2011-04-04T02:00:06.657Z That it has eluded speech is no evidence of incompleteness, for God’s communion with man does not require the faculties of our mortal nature. All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart 2011-03-31T02:00:16.763Z Once induced to lift his pen in any particular cause, he could not lay it down again while there remained an incompleteness unfilled, or an imperfection unremedied. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z It follows that vegetable and animal types along the spiral represent incompleteness to such an extent as to forbid existence after detachment from the impelling current. Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z The equations all led to one unified statement about the Universe, but I noted that there seemed to be an incompleteness about the final statement, and wondered what crank book he had found them in. The Cambrian 2011-03-09T18:51:26.617Z Page 42: I must apologize as well for the incompleteness as for the apparent dogmatism of any brief exposition of this subject. Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters 2011-03-06T03:00:21.020Z And I smile to think God's greatness flows around our incompleteness, Round our restlessness His rest.' Tom Clark and His Wife Their Double Dreams, And the Curious Things that Befell Them Therein; Being the Rosicrucian's Story 2011-02-25T03:01:12.293Z Weakness, incompleteness, imperfection he had, for he was a mortal man of limited faculties, but spotless purity is not to be denied him—he uttered nothing base. Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. 2011-02-15T03:00:16.383Z This must account for the frequent references of a former day to the general effect of incompleteness. The Cathedrals of Southern France 2011-02-10T03:00:54.597Z He also explained the incompleteness of his series by assuming that certain acids or bases requisite to the filling up of the gaps in the series, were not yet known. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z The character of his author's writings relieves these morsels from the air of incompleteness and decapitation which so often attaches to selections. The Galaxy Vol. XXIII?March, 1877.?No. 3 2011-01-31T03:00:16.193Z Such is the incompleteness of the extant teaching of these true saints, and, in their day, faithful witnesses of the Eternal Son. An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine 2011-01-31T03:00:14.710Z The incompleteness of the recovery from the effects of great forces is as important a fact as the practical completeness of the recovery from the effects of comparatively small forces. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" 2011-01-29T03:00:23.777Z Its queer, suspended canopy and slight turreted towers are unique; though, for a fact, they suggest, in embryo, those lavish Burgundian porches; but it is only a suggestion, because of the incompleteness and bareness. The Cathedrals of Southern France 2011-02-10T03:00:54.597Z Others were to arrive, and the party distributed itself about the cemetery with an air of conscious incompleteness. Ghetto Tragedies 2011-01-27T03:00:46.507Z There was more perhaps than I had expected; I do not complain of the quantity, but of the disorder, the incompleteness, the want of discipline and forethought. Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times 2011-01-16T03:00:20.530Z That they should exceed the figures for trust companies is surely evidence of the incompleteness of the trust company figures. The Value of Money 2011-01-04T03:01:12.363Z The results of modern critical methods could not fail to make the incompleteness of the “Received Text,” and of the “Authorized Version,” which was based on it, obvious. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z But disasters are similar to battlefields in their degree of confusion and complexity, and in the consequent unreliability and incompleteness of the information available. Artificial intelligence: No command, and control 2010-11-25T10:47:00Z I'm tending towards it being part of the overall incompleteness of the platform, to be remedied later. Windows Phone 7 review: you sure it's Microsoft software? 2010-10-24T06:00:00Z The appearance of probabilities in the theory was, for him, evidence of its incompleteness. Book Review - Quantum - By Manjit Kumar 2010-06-11T18:33:00Z Stephen Hess, a presidential scholar at the Brookings Institution, said that "the word that comes to mind" in assessing Obama's first-year legislative record is "incompleteness." 2009-12-23T05:00:00Z A recurring theme in many unsuccessful security programs tends to be incompleteness. 2010-02-01T20:00:00Z If later further copies led to variations of the text, they spring from the incompleteness of the Kufish writing, which continued in use for several hundred years. The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII They are at the same time liable to the defects of incompleteness, one-sidedness, disregard of the true proportion of things. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil Allowance has to be made at every turn for some incompleteness or awkwardness of plan, design or construction. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" Notwithstanding its incompleteness, however, there is enough to show a powerful life and a wonderful imagination. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851 Yet he was not aware at first of any incompleteness in her. The Wave An Egyptian Aftermath In the distance is seen one of the cupola-covered towers of the vast Cathedral—most promising and picturesque from a distance, but unsatisfactory in its incompleteness, when visited by the Ecclesiologist. An Architect's Note-Book in Spain principally illustrating the domestic architecture of that country. This was merely representative of the tragical incompleteness of Oxford. Sinister Street, vol. 2 For all its incompleteness, this was a strangely beautiful corner of the green world. Sinister Street, vol. 1 She sang as she rode in advance, and he followed with the pleasure of a man to whom being unmounted brings a sense of incompleteness. The Key to Yesterday This peculiar incompleteness or contingency stands out prominently when the situation rises to the level of uncertainty and perplexity. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude Why are you this wondrous mystery, whose incompleteness becomes a torture to itself? The Children of the World The Americans were justly disappointed by the incompleteness of their success. Battle of Fort George A paper read on March 14th, 1896 It answers to their idea of love's chastity, an idea which is justly offended by the incompleteness of the period of engagement, with all its losses in the freshness and frankness of emotion. Women as World Builders Studies in Modern Feminism But the spoken words seemed to strike her with a sense of incompleteness, of a gap somewhere between themselves and the thought they should have accurately fitted. The Furnace Or we may say that the distinction between focus and margin is just another aspect of the distinction between the conditions for further activity and the incompleteness which leads to further adjustment. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude The episodes suggest themselves to the author's fancy as he proceeds; a fact which gives them the same unexpectedness and sometimes the same incompleteness which the events of a journey naturally have. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII And I smiled to think God's greatness flowed around our incompleteness,— Round our restlessness, His rest. The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Volume II Despite its incompleteness and formlessness, however, it is of value for us because it is the only known glossary of the Itza dialect. History of the Spanish Conquest of Yucatan and of the Itzas Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Hard University. Vol. VII. On the other hand, the theory that Taylor had written the note before killing himself, perhaps to direct suspicion to some innocent person, broke down before the brief wording, its patent incompleteness. The Gray Mask But "incompleteness" is a highly ambiguous term and seems here to beg the question. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude Lord Thomas found one of his difficulties to lie in the incompleteness of the Papal censures. The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon The Story as Told by the Imperial Ambassadors Resident at the Court of Henry VIII The Author writes the last line of this book with a sigh at the incompleteness of his work. The Towns of Roman Britain And yet whatever the subject he touched upon, he never left the impression of incompleteness or of inconclusiveness. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 The rehearsal of "Jack and the Beanstalk" went off with the usual air of incompleteness that characterizes the rehearsal of a pantomime. Carnival Alas for the incompleteness of the written word! From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel All great and ancient buildings which were never finished have a legend referring to their incompleteness. Legends of Florence Collected from the People, First Series Many passages from the classic authors were adduced in support of this hypothesis, and the argument is based largely on the paucity or descriptive incompleteness of the colour-epithets. The Revival of Irish Literature Addresses by Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, K.C.M.G, Dr. George Sigerson, and Dr. Douglas Hyde For this purpose the materials furnished by the older dictionaries are quite insufficient, on account of their incompleteness and unhistorical character. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" In the presence of night man feels his own incompleteness. Toilers of the Sea It will be observed from what we have said that the whole thing turns upon the incompleteness of Napoleon’s success at Ligny, and the power of retreating northward left to the Prussians after that defeat. Waterloo It is the parent of incompleteness, the great author of the Unfinished and the Unserviceable. The Intellectual Life With its present incompleteness, its degree of usefulness is positive, and even under all the adverse circumstances referred to the condition of ably administered battalions bears upon the side of success and prosperity. The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. Its lone spire, standing grim and gaunt against a background of sky, makes only the more apparent the incompleteness of the structure. The Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine More serious perhaps may appear the incompleteness and imperfection of the religious and ethical conceptions, especially in the older portions. The Christian View of the Old Testament So in printing extracts from this source we feel no sense of incompleteness. Vocal Expression A Class-book of Voice Training and Interpretation The Religion of the Semites, though masterly in plan and execution, and though it 321 has excited the admiration of the few Oriental scholars competent to appraise its substantial merit, suffers from its incompleteness. Studies in Contemporary Biography And how he sets my brain going when he says, because there is imperfection, there must be perfection; completeness must come of incompleteness; failure is an evidence of triumph for the fulness of the days. Optimism An Essay Here, at last, I had found something of the same talent in another medium; and I held the incompleteness, in these days of world-wide brummagem, for a happy mark of authenticity. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) Something was lacking, and he had a sense of incompleteness that was quite at variance with his usual complacent outlook on life. Doubloons—and the Girl With all due allowance for the incompleteness of our statistics, it seems certain that the new law had added very considerably to the number of capital sentences. A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 The delicacy of tone, the softness of touch in the outlines, the polish of some of the details, the capricious incompleteness of others are, in fact, the mark of his talent. Contemporary Russian Novelists The absence or incompleteness of authentic records, however, is not the only source of obscurity and confusion in the chronology of remote ages. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" But she is incomplete, this maiden, and being immature she is unaware of her incompleteness. The Kempton-Wace Letters Why interrupt so divine a display of poetical genius by inquiries degrading it to the level of every-day events, and implying incompleteness in the action till a catastrophe arrives? English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century The suggestion of the woman's receiving the Holy Communion is aided by the incompleteness of the Service ending abruptly with the Thanksgiving. Ritual Conformity Interpretations of the Rubrics of the Prayer-Book This incompleteness, we think, will be regretted by all the parties most deeply interested, as well as by the public generally. The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 Nor is it even based on the philosophical conception of the incompleteness of the individual life. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" The Real Issue concerning the Doctrine of Population.—There is a real incompleteness in all such statements. Essentials of Economic Theory As Applied to Modern Problems of Industry and Public Policy That it was wretchedly incomplete and inadequate I hardly need say, but the responsibility for the incompleteness and inadequacy cannot be laid upon the field force. Campaigning in Cuba His fictions embodied truths of character which with all their shadowy incompleteness were too real and too beautiful to lose their charm with time. Spenser She kisses its cotton head and sings it to sleep in divine unconsciousness of any incompleteness, for love supplies many deficiencies. Froebel's Gifts There are no traces in the treatise either of variety of authorship or of incompleteness, though there are evidences of interpolation. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 2 "Constantine Pavlovich" to "Convention" This feeling of the unsatisfactoriness of life, of incompleteness and solitariness, was not of that fixed sort that definitely indicates its demand. The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman The scenes had all died away in incompleteness, and there had been no end. A Country Gentleman and his Family Where should I find records which would enable me to complete incompleteness and reduce chaos to some comprehensive order? Memoirs of Life and Literature Thus far, then, of the incompleteness or simplicity of execution necessary in architectural ornament, as referred to the mind. The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) The following lines, from Ancient Sex Worship, substantiate the above remarks, and at the same time, they show the incompleteness of the writings of many antiquarians. The Sex Worship and Symbolism of Primitive Races An Interpretation Then there’s The Pearl Fisher about a quarter done; and there’s various short stories in various degrees of incompleteness. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) I hear with delight that Edith will be with you again,—that completes the otherwise incompleteness. The Brownings Their Life and Art They returned to the mansion and had such a lunch as Hardy had been able to arrange, which delighted Fr�ken Mathilde Jensen from its incompleteness. A Danish Parsonage That I frankly admit, and accept as one of the incompletenesses of contemporary Socialism. New Worlds For Old A Plain Account of Modern Socialism There are few great books or great men that do not sadden us by a sense of incompleteness. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) The completeness or incompleteness of the occiput and the location and extent of its attachment to the dermal roof. The Adductor Muscles of the Jaw In Some Primitive Reptiles A sense of artistic incompleteness mingled with a keen personal sense of chagrin. Kildares of Storm Our memory dwells on them as a golden horizon, and there remains a constant yearning which makes us feel the incompleteness of this life. My Autobiography A Fragment Part of Keats’s charm as a man is his fascinating incompleteness. A Critic in Pall Mall Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies Whatever may seem invidious or partial in the execution of my task is dependent not so much on the tenor of the work, as on its incompleteness. Modern Painters Volume I (of V) But while recognizing the incompleteness of the evidence, it seems to me that it goes far to justify the hypothesis of Olbers, and is quite incongruous with that of Laplace. Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I Its merit must lie in its incompleteness, for that just urges us on to something beyond. The Dominant Strain I liked its vast, shadowy images, its visionary incompleteness, just because we have not yet invented the precise words to describe the indescribable.” An Orkney Maid Everything is vague, so to speak, irregular, and a certain appearance of incompleteness is apparent. Aztec Land It is characteristic of Apicius for incompleteness and want of precise directions, without which the experiment in the hands of an inexperienced operator would result in failure. Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome The natural tendency is to forget, in construction, the results yielded by criticism, to forget the incompleteness of our knowledge and the elements of doubt in it. Introduction to the Study of History Evidently to Tara at least there is a sense of incompleteness somewhere if the lovely lilies are excluded from the family devotions. Lotus Buds Will there be no sense of incompleteness if the many are outside, missing it all because they missed their End? Things as They Are Mission Work in Southern India Whether an artist is justified in taking the most doubtful feature of his model's physiognomy and building up from it a repellent portrait is question for debate, especially when he admits its incompleteness. Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning Then a sense of incompleteness, of deficiency, of hopeless relativity would overcome the audience. Mountain Meditations and some subjects of the day and the war Austria was staking the success of such tactics on the incompleteness of mobilization by the Russians, and therein she proved to be in error. The Story of the Great War, Volume II (of VIII) History of the European War from Official Sources The true genius shudders at incompleteness—imperfection—and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not every thing that should be said. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 1 January 1848 His imagination partook of the incompleteness of his intellect. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 But we16 may balance against this incompleteness, the fine fire of enthusiasm for the "cause" in the poem, and the fact that Wordsworth has not been at all harmed by it. Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning Most of the investigations that have been conducted to date have been characterized by incompleteness and a failure to be sufficiently comprehensive to eliminate the element of individual idiosyncrasy from the results obtained. All About Coffee A nomadic strain runs through them all, rendering easier to them the utter incompleteness of their unstable political and economical institutions, even when an indolent agriculture seems to tie them to the soil. Introduction to the Science of Sociology The sound appears incomplete; but its incompleteness is at the beginning of the sound, and not at the end of it. A Handbook of the English Language Defective information, vagueness, and incompleteness are charged upon the man whom we now delight to honour; “intellectual husks,” we are told; are all that he offers. Life of Charles Darwin For him and her there was no more tempest, no more restless craving or peril, all had passed with the old incompleteness. Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker Hence, Mill is the easiest person in the world to convict of inconsistency, incompleteness, and lack of rounded system. Liberalism Its very incompleteness, things left out because of sensibilities so stunned that events made no mark as they whirled by, is often more impressive than the conventional war correspondent's cocksureness and windy eloquence. The Story of the Great War, Volume I (of 8) Introductions; Special Articles; Causes of War; Diplomatic and State Papers The quotation from Professor Carver bears the impression of incompleteness, or rather of suggestiveness. Quaker Hill A Sociological Study There is no weakness nor incompleteness in God's salvation. The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity There was nothing poor or mean or artistically bad, but the whole gave an impression of life yet to be lived, an incompleteness that was baffling in its obscurity. Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker That impresses men's minds, and to such a degree that the very triviality and incompleteness of the evidence becomes less trivial and less incomplete even to an unprejudiced mind. The Brothers Karamazov But if he felt the incompleteness of his performance as I did, he did not let it put an end to his endeavor. A Bird-Lover in the West And I smiled to think God's greatness flowed around our incompleteness, Round our restlessness His rest. Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature There is in fallen man an internal knowledge of incompleteness. The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity He was suddenly conscious of a sense of incompleteness, of some detail left out that should be there—a 66 want he could not measure or define. Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker The fault was only one of phrasing, or rather of incompleteness. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century And who shall fear for his identity And who shall cling to the poor privacy Of incompleteness, when the end explains That what pride forfeits, beauty gains! The New World The improbability, inadequacy, and incompleteness of this theory will be obvious from the following considerations: 1. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles This accounts for the fitfulness and incompleteness of so much of his literary work, and for the practical, and in many cases temporary, element which runs through even his most elaborate productions. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Man, feeling suddenly the torment of his incompleteness, embraced woman. Fantazius Mallare A Mysterious Oath To many of her victims the very incompleteness of her sentences was a form of divine loyalty. When Winter Comes to Main Street This is the noble truth that gives vitality to even the crudest presentation of the "forgiveness of sins," and that makes it often, despite its intellectual incompleteness, an inspirer to pure and spiritual living. Esoteric Christianity, or The Lesser Mysteries Ah, 'tis good to know— "God's greatness shines around our incompleteness; Round our restlessness, His rest." Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter The incompleteness of her life was brought before her. The Loyalist A Story of the American Revolution “Mark is also characterised by a conciseness and apparent incompleteness of delineation which are allied to the obscure.” The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark I took "Extracts" out of the title because it conveyed to the many-headed an idea of incompleteness—of something unfinished—and is likely to stall some readers off. The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1, 1833-1856 And this thought of incompleteness compels in him the hope, "another day will begin next morning." The Gospel of the Hereafter Here was the city of great beginnings, the city of experiment—experiment with life; hence its incompleteness—an incompleteness not dissimilar to that of life itself. The Girl and The Bill An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure It is most complete by reason of its very incompleteness. With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back Both would be provided for through the consideration that whatever is complete and necessary must be made up of incompletenesses that are necessary to it. The Approach to Philosophy Rapid firing is another cause of this incompleteness of aim. A Treatise on the Tactical Use of the Three Arms: Infantry, Artillery, and Cavalry Why is there in us this sense of imperfection, of incompleteness—of ideals always away in the front that we can never even approximately reach on earth? The Gospel of the Hereafter Clotilde de Vaux, made him sensible of the incompleteness of his earlier efforts at an intellectual reconstruction; he felt the need of worship and of love. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. Now, let me remind you that this incompleteness is mainly our own fault. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John Is there a kind of whole to which not only parts but fragments, or parts in their very incompleteness, are indispensable? The Approach to Philosophy Life had been a disappointment to him, and he was haunted by a sense of the incompleteness of his own existence. Fairy Fingers A Novel The friends of this measure were dissatisfied with it on the ground of its incompleteness in not containing provisions for carrying it into effect in accordance with the purpose of its framers. History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States That was a sort of pity for the incompleteness of her mother's life; the bareness of it. Mary Ware's Promised Land And if the incompleteness is so blessed, what will the completeness be? Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John The ground is the evident incompleteness of every special judgment concerning experience. The Approach to Philosophy Yet none could complain of incompleteness of reply. Punch, or the London Charivari, May 6, 1914 "Yes, it is dissatisfaction, an incompleteness, as though she had not found what she sought." The Right Knock A Story He knew that each day the incompleteness of her life had been borne in upon her with crushing force. The Root of Evil The incompleteness is progressively completed, and it is our work as much as God's work to complete it. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John Owing to the scarcity of printed matter relating to native composers, and the utter incompleteness and bias of what exists, I have based this book almost altogether on my own research. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions First, it was not to be too complete; second, even for this incompleteness it was not to be concentrated within a short time. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 Seeing him thus the strangeness, the grotesque incompleteness, of his person struck her as never before. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance The marital unhappiness, estrangement, and fragmentary incompleteness in the circle she knew, over which she had grieved and puzzled, had nothing to do with what novels mean by “unfaithfulness.” The Squirrel-Cage Now, secondly, notice the certainty of the completion of the incompleteness. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John To them there is no reply but a pathetic allusion to the inevitable incompleteness and asymmetry of all things human. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions Now it will next be manifest that different organisms correspond with this environment in varying degrees of completeness or incompleteness. Natural Law in the Spiritual World For growth is not that enlargement which is merely adding to the dimensions of incompleteness. Creative Unity But there was withal a vague feeling of incompleteness, an unsatisfied longing. Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873 But it is not being in the flesh, but it is being dominated by the flesh, that is the reason for the incompleteness of our mutual possession. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John They pieced out incompletenesses, they provided clauses or sentences of connection, they toned down expressions deemed too bold, they improved Pascal's style! Classic French Course in English In this is summed up the whole of the Bible anthropology—the completeness of man in God, his incompleteness apart from God. Natural Law in the Spiritual World It is living; yet the incompleteness of life's ideal within it cannot but hurt humanity. Creative Unity She had found an object in life, had splendidly emerged from her old sensations of incompleteness and inferiority. Sacrifice The incompleteness which is due to our earthly condition is nothing as compared with the incompleteness which is due to our own sin. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John Now the whole question of religion was in those days put with radical incompleteness, and Turgot's dissertation was only in a harmony that might have been expected with the prevailing error. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Turgot But the moment we pass beyond the mere animal life we begin to come upon an incompleteness. Natural Law in the Spiritual World But few have ever heard of it, still fewer read it; a fact due, of course, to its incompleteness. Mary Wollstonecraft At last a feeling of incompleteness penetrated her languor. Sacrifice And then, if we turn to the word in the other clause, 'the redemption of the purchased possession,' that suggests the incompleteness with which God as yet owns us. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John Doubt and hesitation also imply incompleteness: He surely would do desperate things to show his love of me! The Ontario High School Reader Man has three questions to put to his Environment, three symbols of his incompleteness. Natural Law in the Spiritual World Prof. Simonds wrote against the plan, and, in 1854, the French commission, whose report has been before mentioned, confirmed, in part, Riviglio's views, though, from the incompleteness of the experiments, further trials were recommended. Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure Notwithstanding its incompleteness and insincerity, however, "the Edict of Forgiveness," as it was termed, is a significant landmark in the history of French Protestantism. History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 I. And I ask you to look with me, first, at the incompleteness of the present possession. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John A direct interrogation, that is, one that can be answered by "Yes" or "No", implies incompleteness in the mind of the questioner and requires a decided rising inflection: Is your name Shýlock? The Ontario High School Reader More is there to be learned and more balance and judgment gained in attending to one's most minute duties than in hours of mental anticipation of possible events and questions, conjured up in necessary incompleteness. Nelka Mrs. Helen de Smirnoff Moukhanoff, 1878-1963, a Biographical Sketch The incompleteness of fermentation of the products is certainly due in part to the presence of furfural-yielding carbohydrates, which are resistant to yeast. Researches on Cellulose 1895-1900 With his eyes opened at the darkness of a strange room he experienced then an incompleteness as if he himself were not enough. Erik Dorn And let us learn, on the other hand, the incompleteness and monstrosity of a professed belief in 'the truth' which does not produce this righteousness and holiness. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John Pleading and entreaty also convey a sense of incompleteness and take the rising inflection: Good friends, sweet friends, let me not stir you up To such a sudden flood of mutiny. The Ontario High School Reader As it is, so many things are fleeting through me in incompleteness, in mere suggestion and so simultaneously at that, that I am bewildered. Nelka Mrs. Helen de Smirnoff Moukhanoff, 1878-1963, a Biographical Sketch Owing to the incompleteness of the early records of the department, which was then under the direction of the British Office, the date of Mr. Kelly's appointment cannot be ascertained. The Stamps of Canada It is true that in the other countries named the Darwinian literature is also rich, and we are well aware of the incompleteness of our report in that respect. The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality The cultured hearer is impressed with a sense of incompleteness and insufficiency in listening to a voice which does not "come out" in a thoroughly satisfactory manner. The Psychology of Singing A Rational Method of Voice Culture Based on a Scientific Analysis of All Systems, Ancient and Modern Show by examples from this selection how completeness and incompleteness of thought affect the Inflection. The Ontario High School Reader It is not an intolerance which wishes to promote self but which is limited and dead to a variation of its own species because it lacks the consciousness of its own incompleteness. Nelka Mrs. Helen de Smirnoff Moukhanoff, 1878-1963, a Biographical Sketch The choice of instruments was a matter of small importance to a man of his nature, the incompleteness of whose education had left him scarcely half-civilized. French and Oriental Love in a Harem In the Merlin proper the incompleteness, the disproportionate space given to mere kite-and-crow fighting, and the defect of love-interest, undoubtedly show themselves. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) But in this very fact, the exhaustive attention paid to the mechanical operations of the voice, is seen the incompleteness of Vocal Science. The Psychology of Singing A Rational Method of Voice Culture Based on a Scientific Analysis of All Systems, Ancient and Modern The opposite inflections on antithetical words or phrases are also due to this law of completeness and incompleteness. The Ontario High School Reader In France, in the constitutional State, the Jewish question is the question of constitutionalism, of the incompleteness of political emancipation. Selected Essays We believe Mr. Bezzi is in error as to the incompleteness of Mr. Wilde's Life of Dante. The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, August 1850 of Literature, Science and Art. I ask satisfaction, and the incompleteness and vulgarity of a pugilistic encounter will not suit me. Captain Mugford Our Salt and Fresh Water Tutors We do not demand the abundance which belongs to us, hence the leanness, the lack of fulness, the incompleteness of our lives. Pushing to the Front This is owing to the fact that, as illustrated above, a negation implies incompleteness. The Ontario High School Reader If you Jews desire to be politically emancipated without emancipating yourselves humanly, the incompleteness, the contradiction, lies not only in you, but it also resides in the essence and the category of political emancipation. Selected Essays The philosophy, the religion, which overlooks or condemns any of these elements, is never satisfactory, and fails to win sincere belief, because of its felt incompleteness. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 Is not this the lesson of life—this incompleteness? Browning's Heroines Leaving her sentence the more expressive for its incompleteness, Mistress Tabitha stalked out of the room and the house, not pausing for any farewells. All's Well Alice's Victory —Benjamin Jowett Illustrate from this extract the general principle that incompleteness is expressed by means of the Rising, and completeness by means of the Falling Inflection. The Ontario High School Reader Lastly, the text suggests the incompleteness of our grasp. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. He seems to be in a state of insurrection against the limitations of his creed, his profession, and his own mind, and the impression conveyed by his best passages is of splendid incompleteness. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 If he was incomplete, so too was she; and her incompleteness was of the kind that, in this relation, never fails to fail—his, of the kind that more often than not succeeds. Browning's Heroines Before proceeding to consider them it is necessary, in order to avoid the charge of incompleteness, to mention that in this branch of the subject two reservations have been made. The Astral Plane Its Scenery, Inhabitants and Phenomena This sense of incompleteness is an argument in favor of its possible satisfaction; our need is an argument for its fulfilment. Friendship Thank God for the necessary incompleteness of our 'apprehending.' Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. We often see this defect of incompleteness in a child, which increases in youth. How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune There must still be difficulty and incompleteness here, only to be solved and perfected 'when iniquity shall have an end.' A Short History of Greek Philosophy He had, of course, an unconquerable optimism, which argued promise from failure and perfection from incompleteness. Joyous Gard But she was overstrung by a week of hard nursing; and some childless women never loss the tragic sense of incompleteness, the unacknowledged ache of empty arms. The Great Amulet It made me realize the mutilation, the incompleteness of being in perfect beauty without love. The Call of the Blood Notwithstanding its incompleteness, it is the best available and is published in the hope that it will serve as a nucleus to which further data may be added until a complete map is produced. Aboriginal Remains in Verde Valley, Arizona Thirteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1891-92, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896, pages 179-262 The suspensive tone which the voice assumes at the end of the interrogation is indicative of incompleteness of thought; and indication of incompleteness is the characteristic function of all rising intervals. The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 Nevertheless the play, as a whole, makes the impression of incompleteness. Essays on Scandinavian Literature She is, in fact, the ideal foster-mother, made for that service, complete in her incompleteness, satisfied with the vicarious fulfilment of the whole of motherhood except its merely physical part. Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles This incompleteness in her lot had been perfectly filled up by her relationship with the whole family of the Seftons. Cobwebs and Cables On the contrary, the distinguishing features of his life are its incompleteness, aimlessness, imperfection, insignificance, neglect of talents and waste of opportunities. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Their incompleteness probably led the number of children to be considerably underestimated. Applied Eugenics Yet it is not without incompleteness of expression; it smacks of immaturity still; but it is the immaturity which presages a man. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 It is not an outward, arbitrary incompleteness that is demanded, but a visible dependence of each part, by its partiality declaring the completeness of the whole. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 But it suffers greatly from the carelessness and the incompleteness with which the details are worked out. James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters With all of his incompletenesses this young rebel of life was no coward. The Price His most respectable volume, that on negro folksong, impresses one principally by its incompleteness. A Book of Prefaces This is the incompleteness and imperfection of the world of nature. The Promulgation of Universal Peace It gave them the fleeting glamour of spiritual beauty that comes to those in whom being has reached its highest expression, the perfect moment of completion caught amid life's incompleteness. The Emigrant Trail "Oh, the little birds sang east, and the little birds sang west, And I smiled to think God's greatness flowed around our incompleteness,— Round our restlessness, His rest." Faith Gartney's Girlhood There is a strain of coarseness in papa; or perhaps I should say—for the impression it leaves is primarily negative, as of something manque—an incompleteness in the sensitive equipment. Wandering Heath Till she was married there was an incompleteness, a potentiality of trouble, in the incident apparently closed that haunted us with a distrustful anxiety. A Pair of Patient Lovers Gregory of Tours, incompleteness of his history of Clovis, 24. The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator And it appeared to him that this terrible law of incompleteness lay like a blight over the over the whole field of human endeavour. The Miller Of Old Church Heart and will had been laid asleep—earthly plan and purpose had been put aside in all their incompleteness and uncertainty—and only God and Nature had been permitted to come near. Faith Gartney's Girlhood It was mutual,—that want, that dependence, that sense of incompleteness which each felt without the other. The Hidden Places It was an inconsistent tie, permanent in its impermanence, with all its incompleteness terribly complete. The Helpmate There is no gaudy exaggeration in it,—no stiffness, no incompleteness. Mrs Whittelsey's Magazine for Mothers and Daughters Volume 3 Every relationship between individuals is stricken with the curse of incompleteness—even love cannot escape this fate. The Evolution of Love Antiquity, his only religion, his god, whose mangled incompleteness endeared it to him, was crumbling away. Masques & Phases Now the incompleteness of the subsidiary services of the English army became more strikingly apparent. The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood And he was touched with a sudden poignant realisation of her life; its sadness, its incompleteness, its isolation. The Helpmate To censure his shortcomings, to regret his imaginative incompleteness, is to miss him altogether. French Art Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture The great erotic is a man whose inward being rests on emotion, who must bring this emotion to its climax—and who is wrecked on the incompleteness of human feeling. The Evolution of Love In contrast with Miss Burns, Frederick perceived in Ingigerd with fearful clearness that incompleteness which is eternally rudimentary. Atlantis The whole plan was never fully carried out, but in spite of incompleteness the chapel is a grand and impressive place. Michelangelo A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures And A Portrait Of The Master, With Introduction And Interpretation The lady was a saint, and there is always a sort of incompleteness about saints if they are not made martyrs. Guy Livingstone; or, 'Thorough' And without this one the rest would leave us with a sense of incompleteness; for we should be without its gift of the abiding and indwelling Spirit, and the fulfilment of the last promise. Sermons at Rugby Bishop Berkeley's name could not be passed over even in such a sketch as this without a sense of incompleteness. The English Church in the Eighteenth Century They all teach that one great truth, that God's greatness flows around our incompleteness, Round our restlessness, His rest. Pulpit and Press He feels, and submits to, its incompleteness and its limitations. Matthew Arnold It was nearly all tents and canvas structures—a heterogeneous mixture of incompleteness and modernity to which the telegraph wires had already been strung from the outside world. The Furnace of Gold Something that made him feel a passionate sense of incompleteness. Burned Bridges There must be serious incompleteness in any history of the sciences, which, leaving out of view the first steps of their genesis, commences with them only when they assume definite forms. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library But it is so remarkable and anomalous to find the decimal and vigesimal scales mingled in this manner that one involuntarily suspects either incompleteness of form, or an actual mistake. The Number Concept Its Origin and Development The prejudicial side of the teaching-plan, against which I intuitively rebelled, although my own tendencies on the subject were as yet so vague and dim, lay, in my opinion, in its incompleteness and its onesidedness. Autobiography of Friedrich Froebel translated and annotated by Emilie Michaelis ... and H. Keatley Moore. The Task is Finished Here we pause, fully conscious of the incompleteness of our task. The Young Priest's Keepsake But outside Wales itself, in the more Celtic parts of England proper, a good many relics of the old Welsh Caers still bespeak the incompleteness of the early Teutonic conquest. Science in Arcady Because as a poem of yours it stands there and wants unity, and people can't be expected to understand the difference between incompleteness and defect, unless you make a sign. The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 For we know that the deepest cause of human misery is not inheritance, is not environment, is not ignorance, is not incompleteness; it is the informed but the perverse human will. Preaching and Paganism A sense of incompleteness had taken hold of him. The Grey Cloak Our plans, our schemes, our ambitions, all the things that make us enjoy and hope and arrange, are but signs of our incompleteness. The Child of the Dawn For all that, she had the same incompleteness that she had when I last saw her, and an inharmoniousness that was felt by the hearer whenever she spoke. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 But the point is not the being seen or not, but the suggestion of incompleteness. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 It is not with its content but its incompleteness that we quarrel. Preaching and Paganism For the first time in his life he became conscious of incompleteness, of having missed something in the flight. The Grey Cloak That is to say, there should remain no mystery or uncertainty or unpleasant feeling of incompleteness. How to Teach Religion Principles and Methods The incompleteness of the tower is attributed to divine intervention. The Bible Period by Period A Manual for the Study of the Bible by Periods The trouble all rests back in the failure to realize the incompleteness of man or woman alone for any of the purposes of life. Woman in Modern Society What has revealed the incompleteness of the humanistic position has been its constant tendency to decline into naturalism; a tendency markedly accelerated today. Preaching and Paganism The old sense of incompleteness, of inadequacy, returned; but she understood the cause of it now; she saw with perfect clearness the defect from which it had arisen. One Man in His Time A further distinguishing mark of the romantic spirit, mentioned by Dr. Hedge in common with many other critics, is the indefiniteness or incompleteness of its creations. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century The fact that it early gave the impression of incompleteness favors this claim. The Bible Period by Period A Manual for the Study of the Bible by Periods Such antagonisms rest back in the failure to realize the incompleteness of man or woman alone, for any purposes of life. Woman in Modern Society What preaching should avoid is the abstractions of an archaic system of thought with all their provocative and contentious elements, the mingled dogmatism and incompleteness which any worked-out system contains. Preaching and Paganism Several correspondents complain of the incompleteness of the list of Homophones in Tract II. Society for Pure English Tract 4 The Pronunciation of English Words Derived from the Latin Socrates and Plato, Cicero and Plutarch, Montesquieu and Franklin, Kant and Emerson, Tennyson and Browning,—how do they all bear witness to the incompleteness of life and reach out to a completion beyond the grave. What Peace Means Should there appear in places an abruptness or incompleteness of treatment, these limitations must be my excuse. The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition On the other hand, Ugliness to me is eternal, not in the essence but in its incompleteness; but its eternity does not daunt me, for its eternal unfulfilment is a cause of joy. Darkwater Voices from Within the Veil Consciousness of disharmony and incompleteness now brings the obligation to mend the disharmony and achieve a fresh synthesis. The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day The object of that list was to convince readers of the magnitude of the mischief, and the consequent necessity for preserving niceties of pronunciation: evidence of its incompleteness must strengthen its plea. Society for Pure English Tract 4 The Pronunciation of English Words Derived from the Latin Despite the incompleteness of our examinations of the infantile sexual life we were subsequently forced to attempt to study the serious changes produced by the appearance of puberty. Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex There was a touch of rawness in the picture, a hint of incompleteness, with a promise of much to come. Ranching for Sylvia "As the language of passion resenting death and this life's woeful incompleteness? or as a prevision of the soul in a moment of intensest life?" Robert Browning The large amount of incompleteness that is to be found among the products of our schools may be traced, in a large measure, to our irrational and fictitious procedure in the matter of grading. The Reconstructed School The structure of the heavens is here reduced to the simple solution of a great problem in mechanics; yet Laplace's work has never yet been accused of incompleteness and want of profundity. COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Everything," he declares, "in my experience—and I speak only of my own—testifies to the incompleteness of life, nay, even to its preponderating unhappiness. A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) No sooner has he used the symbol of the salt, than the Lord proceeds to supplement its incompleteness. Hope of the Gospel In spite of its outward incompleteness, it had been a noble life—an almost perfect life; and now it was ended. A Noble Life Another serious incompleteness lies in the fact that he pays little attention to the psychological implications of his theories. Rudolph Eucken : a philosophy of life Part of Keats’s charm as a man is his fascinating incompleteness. Reviews I must rely on the evidence of my list, and I would here apologize for its incompleteness. Society for Pure English, Tract 02 On English Homophones It would only add to his unhappiness and disturb a relation which even in its incompleteness was dear to him. Westways The whole scenery seems to array itself for the tourist like a country wife, with many an incompleteness in its toilet, and with a kind of haggard apology for being late. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 To keep his troops occupied General Douay set them to work on the defenses of the place, which were in a state of incompleteness; there was great throwing up of earth and cutting through rock. The Downfall How unlike man’s toil and hurry! how unlike the noise, the strife, All the pain of incompleteness, all the weariness of life! Reviews That abiding melancholy, that painful sense of the incompleteness of life which had been his mother's dowry to him, asserted itself. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 3, February 1896 He had imagined the incompleteness of the racket would merely show Amoyah as incompetent, render his play futile and ineffective, and discredit him with both friend and foe. The Frontiersmen Something in his tone jarred me, and I said hastily, "I don't think development should be sacrificed to harmony: incompleteness is better than perfection sometimes." Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 But for those who prefer historical fact, it may be interesting to learn the authentic details of the interment of one whose posthumous destinies seemed to share the incompleteness of his baffled life. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 Horror at my own incompleteness of sex and sudden fits of hatred toward women and a great longing to be loved by men. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion But we have to recognize that that incompleteness was right and necessary. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism If, too, we look at the experiences themselves, they all have the stamp of incompleteness, and suggest completeness by their own incompleteness. Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) So long as it was thus kept secret there seemed a certain incompleteness and unsanctity about even their happy love. Mistress and Maid There is an incompleteness about giving only one, and besides, the one you bought was probably in red, and would not match these. The Bed-Book of Happiness Every one seemed to appreciate the incompleteness of the party, and even Mrs. Easterfield looked serious, which was not usual with her. The Captain's Toll-Gate Because he had a strong intellect, because he had a strong power of conviction, he conceived and developed and asserted these doctrines of the incompleteness of Man and the sacrifice of Omnipotence. Robert Browning It is to this weakness and incompleteness of our desires and prayers that the help of the Spirit is directed. Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) Now they have the substitutes suggested by parsimony to cover their incompleteness. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Chichester (1901) A Short History & Description Of Its Fabric With An Account Of The Diocese And See And she was left with her queer, baffled sense of surprise and incompleteness. The Romantic Like these early efforts of geography the present science of food chemistry is all right if we realize its incompleteness. The Dollar Hen And Browning was right in saying that in a cosmos where incompleteness implies completeness, life implies immortality. Robert Browning His great work, the Faerie Queen, is but a gorgeous fragment, six books out of a projected twelve; but probably few or none of its readers have regretted its incompleteness. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature Each gospel should be read, therefore, remembering its incompleteness, remembering also the particular purpose and individual enthusiasm for Jesus which produced it. The Life of Jesus of Nazareth O pain to break At once from happiness so lately found, And four long years to feel for her sweet sake The incompleteness of all sight and sound! Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. This anæmic incompleteness of Emerson's character can be traced to the philosophy of his race; at least it can be followed in that philosophy. Emerson and Other Essays The poem suggests admirably that such a sense of incompleteness may easily be a great advance upon a sense of completeness, that the part may easily and obviously be greater than the whole. Robert Browning Then he has had that wide experience of men which ends by throwing the mind back on itself and God; there is nothing incomplete in him, except as all humanity is incompleteness. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) Of the incompleteness of Johnson's view of character there could be no better instance than the charming weakness of Cowper. Cowper The incorrectness of a child's data, their incompleteness and lack of organization, often result in incorrect conclusions, and still his thinking may be absolutely sound. How to Teach The sketch is left in its consummate incompleteness because this mortal life is not rich enough to carry out the Divine idea. Ralph Waldo Emerson The world of art is thus thought of as one of pure contemplation, a place of escape from the difficulties, the pangs, and the incompleteness that beset all action. Heart of Man Then he disappears among the throng, with an uncomfortable sidelong movement, which endeavors to shield the incompleteness of his back view. Nancy From the incompleteness of the Spanish returns of foreign trade, it is unfortunately not possible to test the complete accuracy of those given here by collation. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 331, May, 1843 What a vile economy is this! what a waste and incompleteness! and the world full of drivellers and dotards, that it would gladly be quit of. Bart Ridgeley A Story of Northern Ohio The process of calculating general prices and changes in them has in it, inevitably, something of arbitrariness and incompleteness. Modern Economic Problems Economics Volume II In Mr. Froude's case, however, we cannot set down much of this incompleteness to the score of illness. The Oxford Movement Twelve Years, 1833-1845 We have given ourselves cricks in the necks, staring up at the divine incompleteness of Cologne Cathedral. Nancy Sometimes this incompleteness is justified by the idiom of the language, but more often it is the result of carelessness on the part of the speaker. Composition-Rhetoric The whole structure gives the impression of a noble but incompleted idea; both in its greatness and in its incompleteness, it is typical of Akbar and his work. A Handbook to Agra and the Taj Sikandra, Fatehpur-Sikri and the Neighbourhood The sentence remained unfinished; and its very incompleteness left Spinrobin with the most grievous agony of apprehension he had yet experienced. The Human Chord Would the Via Media make up for its incompleteness as a theory by developing into reality and fruitfulness of actual results? The Oxford Movement Twelve Years, 1833-1845 If I did that I would take half that charm away from you—that elusive incompleteness which Fragonard and Watteau tried to imitate, Heaven knows with how little success. Ronicky Doone Tense shows also the completeness or incompleteness of an act or condition at the time of speaking. Composition-Rhetoric The same incompleteness ran through everything—one field was well tilled, the next indifferently, the third full of weeds. Hodge and His Masters It is not, as Mr. Gladstone says, "a heroic history"; there is room enough in the looseness of some of its arrangements, and the incompleteness of others, for diversity of opinion and for polemical criticism. Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890 For there is a most modern fineness and subtlety in Emma; and, for all its sketchy incompleteness, a peculiar certainty of touch, an infallible sense of the significant action, the revealing gesture. The Three Brontës Outside the apartments of Redwood and Bensington, Winkle, in spite of the incompleteness of his instructions, became a leading authority upon Boomfood. The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth The machinery was removed, and the frescoes were uncovered in their incompleteness to the eyes of Rome. Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts He turned a small country into a great one: he made a new diplomacy by the fulness and far-flung daring of his lies: he took away from criminality all reproach of carelessness and incompleteness. The Crimes of England There is an incompleteness about giving only one, and besides, the one you bought was probably in red and would not match these. The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson) "So full of animal life as he was, so joyous in his deportment, so physically well-developed; he made no impression of incompleteness, of maimed or stinted, nature." Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook One of the reasons why we have so long been mere serviles on this point, is owing to the incompleteness of the establishments of the different leading presses of the country. Miles Wallingford Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore" Their incompleteness testifies to something pathetic—the humility of the imperious man before a theme he found to be beyond the reach of human faculty. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti Judith burst into angry expressions of wrath over the incompleteness of the cave which she and Arnold had been excavating together. The Bent Twig Religion is based on humility and grateful reverence, which is favored, not injured, by the immeasurable sublimity of its object, the incompleteness of our idea of the Supreme Being, and the knowledge of our ignorance. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time The defect of the argument, however, lies in the incompleteness of the premises, and its obliviousness of certain facts of human nature and human history. The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected Essays How much of the incompleteness of his situation was referable to her father, through the painful anxiety to avoid reviving old associations of France in his mind, he did not discuss with himself. A Tale of Two Cities Their incompleteness baffles criticism; yet we feel instinctively that they were meant for the open air and for effect at a considerable distance. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti The burden of a perished faith Went sighing through his speech of sweetness, With human hints of time and death, And subtle notes of incompleteness. The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens The quotations of Gibbon have likewise been called in question;—I have, in general, been more inclined to admire their exactitude, than to complain of their indistinctness, or incompleteness. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 There were a hundred thousand shapes and substances of incompleteness, wildly mingled out of their places, upside down, burrowing in the earth, aspiring in the air, mouldering in the water, and unintelligible as any dream. Dombey and Son The picture is utterly simple; the more so for its touch of incompleteness. Stories from Everybody's Magazine And much of this incompleteness in his life-work seems to me due to his being what I called a dreamer. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti In the more personal branch of religion it is on the contrary the inner dispositions of man himself which form the center of interest, his conscience, his deserts, his helplessness, his incompleteness. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature Goethe, the most comprehensive of Seers, must needs expose his incompleteness by futile attempts to disprove Newton's theory of colour. Tracks of a Rolling Stone This moral aim—as opposed to the currently accepted technical aim of the poem—explains the otherwise puzzling incompleteness of the instructions on farming and seafaring. Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica |
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