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No such story is truly banal, Dreiser seems to be saying; there is only inadequate representation of what happened.
In extreme cases their work is not only inadequate but actually destructive in social, economic and environmental terms, crushing the hopes and dreams of millions.
The only current alternative is a sun with sunglasses on, which is not only inadequate, but also nonsensical – why would the sun need sunglasses?
They were about outwardly ordinary lives, and thereby established that there's no such thing as an "ordinary" life; there is only inadequate appreciation of humanity.
The Bush administration issued a weak rule in 2006 that was struck down in federal court as not only inadequate but invalid.
And the Supreme Court let stand a 2008 ruling from the same appeals court striking down — as not only inadequate but illegal — Bush rules governing mercury emissions from power plants.
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But, of course, they had only their inadequate Soldier-Queen.
It's not that my original take was so wrong, only woefully inadequate.
We can pay only an inadequate homage to their memory, courage and sacrifice".
Yet video isn't the thing, only an inadequate vessel for capturing a tricky form.
A report by Deborah Sontag in The Times last week exposed the failures of the rebuilding effort, which can be described only as inadequate, inconsistent and, in some cases, inept.
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