| 单词 | inexactitude |
| 例句 | The dragon, the griffin, the unicorn, the phoenix, the centaur—these and more are represented in Muggle works of that period, though usually with almost comical inexactitude. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Our most destructive weapons are somehow immune to our own clumsiness and inexactitude, aren’t they? Review: ‘Command and Control’: Common Errors, Nuclear Arms and Consequences 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z I was taught at Cambridge University that though one could not say something such as “Mr. so-and-so is a liar,” it was permissible to say, “the Right Honorable so-and-so is guilty of a ‘terminological inexactitude.’” Opinion | How to improve the State of the Union 2023-02-10T05:00:00Z It contains the code of information that allows it to replicate, and does so with enough inexactitude to allow natural selection to work its wonders. NASA rover Perseverance will prowl ancient lake bed on Mars for signs of life 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z The OAS fired back, saying the researchers’ analysis contained “countless falsehoods, inexactitudes and omissions.” As the U.S.-backed government in Bolivia unleashes a wave of political persecution, the Trump administration remains silent 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z Given this level of inexactitude, court findings are imprecise, sometimes criticized for findings of guilt or innocence. Recent Missouri Editorials 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z He was to modern medicine as the handmade is to the machined: careful, laborious and beautiful by virtue of a rich inexactitude. Tea with Oliver Sacks: Will Self, Andrew Solomon and Sue Halpern pay tribute 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z Who used the phrase "terminological inexactitude" to mean "lie", to get around rules on unparliamentary language? Quiz of the week's news 2012-06-15T01:18:59Z I think that it is a perfectly fair line of argument, and it disposes of quite a number of pious "inexactitudes." One Day at a Time and Other Talks on Life and Religion 2012-03-31T02:00:20.873Z I mean that whatever chance I had of growing up into the competent mother of a family was probably lost to me through the inexactitudes of country practice. A Woman of Genius 2012-01-18T03:00:09.517Z Our awareness and suspicions of the inexactitude of art is heightened in those moments when apocalypse seems to threaten. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: The Stage, the Screen and the Screen on Stage 2012-01-12T22:00:35Z It might even take the form of manufactured property, but with the inexactitude of all primitive people, neither the amount nor the time for yielding it seems ever to have been fixed. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z Of late there has been a great increase all over the world in the picturesque type of stamp, and these have provided a fairly large crop of pictorial "inexactitudes." Peeps at Postage Stamps 2011-12-23T03:00:15.610Z Normally open and candid persons are found concealing the paper against a later and freer hour; terminological inexactitude is even resorted to in order to cover such jackdaw-hoardings; glances become covetous and suspicious. Punch, or The London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 31, 1916 2011-08-09T02:00:23.527Z He concedes “some inexactitude at the margins” but says the overall trends showing the quite recent dominance of the docket by this group are undeniable. Specialists? Legal Help Can Come With a Catch 2010-10-09T22:50:00Z Even if both brothers encountered that equally, baseball abhors such inexactitude. A Pattern of Sibling Risk-Taking in the Major Leagues 2010-05-24T20:26:00Z Surely, any such inexactitude is what we should expect in a late poet, drawing upon tradition. Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn “In your report, there is an inexactitude; you make me set out from Macao with my brother Joseph Gabet, and yet I did not enter China till four years after him.” Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2 Those who wish to be considered refined speak of the one as an 'agricultural implement' and of the other as a 'terminological inexactitude.' Windyridge Most children distort everything by inexactitude of this kind, and it is only after a hard struggle that they ever attain to a scrupulous accuracy—that is, learn to master their imagination. Introduction to the Study of History If you had no possible means of obtaining another rule, you would have to put up with a little inexactitude. To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story This record proves nothing beyond the inexactitude of Halliwell-Phillipps's sweeping statements, but it gives us a hope that something else may somewhere else be found to fit into it and make a fact complete. Shakespeare's Family "Yes—but I thought her'd most likely be gone 'fore this," says Bessie without, apparently, the least sense of shame, or even of inexactitude. A Poor Man's House It is not his fault if he is addicted to inexactitude. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 29, 1914 It might be affirmed without inexactitude that the prolixity of counsel is the somnolence of the judiciary. Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: The New York Idea Negroes have almost no relative ideas of distance or number beyond a very limited extent; they will say 'a tousan'd,' fifty or a hundred 'tousand,' with equal inexactitude and fluency. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy When his blood was up, he must either speak or burst; but his indignation, though it found vent in flashing sarcasms, never betrayed him into irrelevancies or inexactitudes. Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography When Vauvenargues began to reflect, he was astonished at the inexactitude and even self-contradiction of the philosophical language of his day. Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France They have muddled it up with another question, namely that owing to the inexactitude of observation it is impossible to make an exact statement in the comparison of measures. The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 The second, though abounding in inexactitudes, gives a more just notion of the reality than the plan. Life of St. Francis of Assisi The German inexactitude farmer is sowing seed on barren soil. Private Peat That would be, in my opinion, a kind of inexactitude worse than that to which we are exposed in admitting the details supplied by the texts. The Life of Jesus As with the sweet influences of Pippa, so with the devastating havoc wrought by the inexactitudes of Mr. Pim, I think he should have been left unconscious of the effect of his passing. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-01-14 Russell in effect pointed out that apart from minor inexactitudes a determinate congruence relation is among the factors in nature which our sense-awareness posits for us. The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 But its virtue is constantly being undermined by inexactitudes which irritate and produce doubt. Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 Now since I have been back in America, and more especially in the States, I have run to earth any number of terminological inexactitudes uttered by German propagandists. Private Peat Yes, I heard every word you said to Laura: you made a gallant effort, but the facts speak for themselves, and your terminological inexactitudes wouldn't deceive a babe at the breast. Nightfall The battle of "terminological inexactitudes" rang with cries of Chinese "slavery," Tariff Reform, Church Schools, Labour Dispute Bills, and so forth; but on Ireland silence reigned on the platforms of the victors. Ulster's Stand For Union All the horrors of that day did not obliterate the feeling of uneasiness which had taken possession of him when he discovered the inexactitude in his work. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig She could not have to wait more than a minute or two, according to the inexactitude of her clock.... The Pretty Lady He got out of the difficulty by calling it a "terminological inexactitude." Private Peat If she was merely late, he equally objected to such unconscionable inexactitude. The Regent By a stroke of fortune while in East Prussia I became "assistant" for two days to a Government moving picture photographer who had a pass for himself and assistant in those happy days of inexactitude. The Land of Deepening Shadow Germany-at-War This is a lovely example of the sceptical slipshod, and, accompanied by the miscitation of the second case, shows that inexactitude is not all on the side of the seers. The Making of Religion Its popular designation preserves its early ecclesiastical associations, though with some degree of "terminological inexactitude." Somerset All this about Canada being in front is a German "terminological inexactitude" which is so despicable that we in Canada are ashamed that it should be said of us. Private Peat There was more sting in the speech of Mr. DAVISON, and one Churchillian phrase: "They could not maintain constitutional government on the theoretical inexactitudes of kaleidoscopic politicians," which evidently pleased the originator. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 4, 1919. Notwithstanding this inexactitude in names, the ballad has an historical basis. Ballad Book This unlucky inexactitude is chronic, as we have shown, in Herr Parish's work, and is probably to be explained by inattention to facts, by 'expectation' of suitable facts, and by 'anxiety' to prove a theory. The Making of Religion Mrs. Lessways warmly deprecated any apology for inexactitude, and wiped her sympathetic eyes. Hilda Lessways A Christian is to be true and just in all his dealings, abhorring crookedness: for the essence of lying is not inexactitude in speech, but deceitfulness of intention. Religious Reality Then you will find that all uninspired narratives are more or less inexact, and that one, and one only, Fiction proper, has the honesty to antidote its errors by professing inexactitude. Love Me Little, Love Me Long At every turn in his life we are reminded of his inexactitude—especially in autobiographical details. The Life of Sir Richard Burton But they were all of them wrong, incorrect; and no matter how holy their lives, how self-sacrificing their actions, they would have to suffer for their inexactitude through aeons of undefined torment. Father and Son: a study of two temperaments Rigorous for the least shortcoming, where his interest is hurt:—never pardons any fault which tends to inexactitude in the Military Service. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 16 Mrs. Mountstuart fell back to Laetitia, saying: "He pores over a little inexactitude in phrases, and pecks at it like a domestic fowl." The Egoist The father ignored the inexactitude of such words, and gratefully accepted the lie as a proof of friendship. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse In vain, his reason protested against the inexactitude of that word, "siege." The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse |
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