In 1962, amid a credit crunch, bankruptcy loomed thanks to what Heseltine Sr later described as "inadequate book-keeping".
Such detail might not fit well into the orchestra's fluffy and generally inadequate programme books, but if this really was an attempt to present the symphony "as Mahler might have heard it when it was first performed", then it would have been worth knowing when the woodwind instruments were made and whether they were French or German, whether the trumpets had rotary valves or pistons, and so on.
It's inadequate for a book written to honour dead millions who, in spite of their grotesque betrayal, continued to hope against hope.
Tripp explains that Blackmore turned in an inadequate draft, his book contract was cancelled, and the catcher died shortly afterwards, "leaving nothing in Happy's notorious 'files' but the fragments and scribblings of a ghost".
Librarian Justin Winsor concluded his 1892 Annual Report by pleading, "I have in earlier reports exhausted the language of warning and anxiety, in representing the totally inadequate accommodations for books and readers which Gore Hall affords.
It is not clear why these textbooks should be so poor, although the generally low marks scored by shorter books show that "quick fix" books are inadequate.
In addition, the map in Mr. Elliot's book is inadequate in enabling the reader to follow his travels closely.
(But where's Joan Crawford's famous Charleston?) The one inadequate section of the book -- it reads like an afterthought -- is on musical theater in America.
Two hundred pages with generous margins may seem hopelessly inadequate for a travel book about India, but Samanth Subramanian's theme allows him to illuminate aspects of its history, culture, religion, economics and geography.
Your Marketing … Is Grossly Inadequate 07.15.03 Mark Stevens' new book has a rude title and a good point: Many marketing dollars are misspent.
Labeling the nonfiction books is inadequate.
