Due to small sizes, inconvenient shapes and scattered locations, the parcels often became unprofitable for agricultural use, and were later abandoned and frequently transformed into built-up areas.
With a few exceptions, such as the Gossip Girl novels by Cecily von Ziegesar ("the lightest of light reading"), which allow Malcolm to praise a gift for observational cruelty not unlike her own, every subject stirs up ideas about the difficulty of granting reality its sometimes inconvenient lack of shape and order.
Using a human shape is pretty inconvenient in robot design, because it turns out it is quite hard to balance on two legs, but our vanity means we keep on building them anyway.
Marriage along the border is often shaped by the inconvenient fact that neither the laws of Mexico nor of the United States are founded on the principle that love conquers all.
Dr Murray argues that the best data and analyses must be embraced, even when they are inconvenient, if policies are to be shaped properly and resources allocated sensibly.
After all, as Levine notes, the inconvenient truth remains that not every child can be shaped and accelerated into Harvard material.
And we must accept that shaping the future for the collective good may be inconvenient for the individual.
None of them, Mr. Alder notes, address a central problem pointed out by Montaigne four centuries ago, the inconvenient fact that "the reverse side of the truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits".
This process can produce epoxy resin microdevices in suitable shapes with even surfaces and preformed via holes, eliminating the inconvenient device preparations, such as cutting and drilling.
