I was entirely incapable of speech.
The Russians, that is, were not merely repressive by choice, but trapped within the confines of their language incapable of imagining an alternative... Of course, there is a word for freedom: svoboda..
Rather, a loner troubled by longings, incapable of finding a suitable language and despairing at the impossibility of composing messages in a playable key — as if I no longer understood the codes used by the estimable people who wanted to hear from me and would have so much to reply if only the impediments were taken away.
For starters, he was incapable of picking up on body language.
The idea that people who speak some particular language are incapable of certain kinds of thought is instinctively distasteful.
Incapable of communicating through a common language, the man provides a much different type of salvation comfort.
Women are excluded from the study if they are younger than 18 years of age, lack basic fluency in the Dutch language, are incapable of understanding informed consent, or are diagnosed with a breast cancer recurrence or with metastastic disease.
Editors, who could read manuscripts in three languages, were incapable of reading a simple balance sheet or of evaluating the bottom line.
Few today would hold that material processes are incapable of producing complex phenomena such as language and rationality, and indeed our understanding of 'the material' has changed dramatically since Descartes' time.
Having a parent working in advertising, marketing, market research, media or manufacture, distribution and sale of beverages (in order to have participants that were not specifically aware of their fluid intake) and being incapable of completing the questionnaire in the language presented were exclusion criteria.
