He has debated Mr. Green only twice because of the sudden reluctance of his opponent, and has kept street campaigning to a minimum, which is wise because it is in unscripted moments that he tends to make inopportune remarks or show flashes of impatience.
Some worried that the staff scientist might leave at an inopportune moment, making the lab less, not more, stable.
Funds have also made some spectacularly inopportune purchases.
"The current vacancy in the Court Administration position, in addition to several other urgent matters in our court, make this an inopportune time for me to reduce my commitment to the citizens of Centre County," he added.
Bill Parcells started this by quitting at an inopportune time, before making sure the organization's loose ends were tied.
Taking a short position in puts, which means the investor agrees to have stock dumped on him at an inopportune time, makes some people downright queasy.
The rocky debt market would make it seem an inopportune time for Visa to price its offering, but the company is only a processor of credit-card transactions, not a lender, so its books are clean and free of the loan-related wounds that have scarred so many financial firms of late.
Ruehl says that at a hedge fund, Vinik, who had fallen from grace at Fidelity in 1996, didn't have the pressure of making an irrational decision such as putting a massive daily inflow to work at inopportune time.
Occasionally those parts, a long section, for example on the embarrassments caused by the inopportune sweating of one character (a condition that plagued the headscarf-wearing author), Wallace seems to step out from his shapeshifting voice and to be writing fully autobiographically, making direct eye-contact with the reader.
"Inopportune" might also make an observer think of the fall or rise of the automobile industry.
