Most adolescents struggle to assume their adult form, the process is often inelegant, but for Hosch the "who am I" questions were specific and painful.
Americans in their young republic were also already going into decline, too: Adams Sherman Hill, a Harvard professor of rhetoric, found "the work of even good scholars disfigured by bad spelling, confusing punctuation, ungrammatical, obscure, ambiguous, or inelegant expressions" in 1879.
This is an inelegant, prurient and often fascinating smorgasbord of insight and anecdotes from historians, friends and random talking heads.From the "Rashomon -like choRashomon -like readers learn that Salinger chorusbe seductively charming and ruthlessly petty.
His writing can be inelegant and rich with generalisations, but he tells Plath's story with the verve of a thriller, punching it with choice quotes.
The majority of astrophysicists feel that the tweaks that MOND makes to the laws of gravity are messy and inelegant, and one of the wonders of physics is that elegance has, at least in the past, proved to be closely correlated with truth.
These are predicted by supersymmetry, a theory which removes mathematically inelegant fiddle factors from the Standard Model, the reigning rule book of particle physics, by doubling the number of species in the particle zoo.
It was, however, what computer programmers call a kludge: a dirty, inelegant solution.
English is the second most spoken language (after Mandarin) and is the currency of international relationships, but it has mutated into Spanglish, Singlish and even Globish, an inelegant dialect and the subject of Robert McCrum's recent book, reviewed here.
This makes the alternative approach adopted in the new energy bill picking renewables winners understandable, even if no less inelegant or costly.The bill is a clear victory for greens.
His performances, the bearded militant conceded, were not all that might be wished for; an inelegant batsman, Mr ul-Haq is known as "Tuk-tuk" for his plodding rate of progress.
DIGITAL cameras are getting cheaper and more capable all the time, yet they still rely on an inelegant technological kludge.
