The narrator wondered if she would have said something about the sadness of love's ending, but doubts she would have, because, she realised, in our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.
"just make you feel a little bit...they just make you feel inadequate sort of thing...The GPs and that they didn't really ask any questions and I wouldn't sort of, I didn't feel I could ask questions sort of thing".
And something I write may be quite sketchy and inadequate and banal — things about the people, about how they sounded or things they said or how they looked — and I'll know that isn't right, but I just go on, and then I get to know them, and I start getting to know them better just by something they say.
In fact, the sentence neatly encapsulates the central drama of O'Rourke's poems: the tremendous difficulty of writing clearly and accurately (my poor inadequate eye) about things longed for but never seen (my poor impoverished eye) and things so terrible they should never have to be seen (my poor overburdened eye).
We are always being told language is inadequate to describe things.
"But as we sit here tonight, I feel inadequate with the things he accomplished — the family, the pastors, the friends, the respect — to think about that smile, to think about the person he was".
"For the time being, nothing indicates" extortion, Mr. Veloso said, emphasizing that the guards were reacting to four large athletes "exhibiting, at a minimum, inadequate attitudes, breaking things and showing themselves ready to elevate the level of violence".
Auburn, in Fort Greene, has been cited for more than four hundred violations in the past decade — "unheeded alarms," Elliott writes, and not for casual things: "inadequate child care, faulty fire protection, insufficient heat, spoiled food, broken elevators, nonfunctioning bathrooms and the presence of mice, roaches, mold, bedbugs, lead and asbestos".
But there is no clear reason for doing so; the term may just mean 'inquiry' in the usual sense, and Xenophanes may simply be bemoaning his inadequate investigation of things.
Hitler and Stalin exhibited strong hatred towards Jews from childhood, and because they felt woefully inadequate, they did things to try and show everybody that they have power.
