Sentence examples for inadvertence from inspiring English sources

Problems, however, remained: the mechanical difficulties, for example, and the jealous sloop boatmen, who through "inadvertence" would ram the unprotected paddle wheels of their new rivals.

(Suffering brought on by natural causes, such as illness or childbirth, is scantily represented in the history of art; that brought on by accident virtually not at all — as if there were no such thing as suffering by inadvertence or misadventure).

Shakepeare's apparent instances of inadvertence were deliberate, to make speech sound spontaneous on the stage.

But, through inadvertence, miscalculation, or the unintended consequences of actions taken mainly to assuage the supposed impatience of the American public, "they" could expand anyway.

But most of the danger that human beings faced from nuclear weapons after the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had to do with inadvertence — with bombs dropped by mistake, bombers catching on fire or crashing, missiles exploding, and computers miscalculating and people jumping to the wrong conclusion.

In our PROFILE on Issey Miyake, in our issue of December 19 , 1983 we printed part of a poem that began: OBody is to spirit/ As cloth is to body/ Grown to its own size:/ Room in the air.O Through inadvertence, we failed to attribute the poem to its author, Laurance Wieder.

"They are a collective project for individual benefit … something that the market cannot accomplish, except, on its own account of itself, by happy inadvertence.

To most people a seemed a good-humored spoof on the whole thing, & probably by sheer inadvertence penetrated a small chink in Hagerty's armor.

He works his way through these and similar incidents as if they prove much beyond the vulnerability of all man-made systems to accident, inadvertence and misuse.

Practically every filmmaker who has set out in search of James has ended up somewhere else, either by design (like Mr. McGehee and Mr. Siegel) or by inadvertence, lost among the tendrils of the writer's lush consciousness.

Something a man says to Wilson a bit of chatter, an inadvertence may mean nothing when he hears it but a great deal a dozen years later; the movie sews these moments together, and when the pattern becomes clear we are both impressed and chilled.