For a few Chaplin bashers (including Pauline Kael), this was proof of his inability to transcend the format of his early one- and two-reelers.
Sharma's plain style, its gaps and fissures and mighty sense of lack, is both proof of the inability of words to render grief and a demonstration that they can do exactly that.
The Jacksonville library called the novel "beautifully hypnotic", with Sharma's "plain style, its gaps and fissures and mighty sense of lack … both proof of the inability of words to render grief and a demonstration that they can do exactly that".
I was sure by now that I was the only one who thought as I did, sure I was the only girl who took each breakup as proof of her inability to be loved, sure I was the only one with whom no boy ever wanted to stay.
"Allowing the ruling regime in Syria to kill and burn its people by the chemical weapons, while the world stands idly, without applying deterrent sanctions against the Damascus regime, is also irrefutable evidence and proof of the inability of the Security Council to carry out its duties and responsibilities," the statement said.
The proof of his inability to move through speech is in the pudding: if he were the orator he is purported to be he would have been able to push across more, or even some, of his agenda.
Like many of his countrymen he thought that the 2003 invasion of Iraq per se -- not the absence of an accompanying civil-military stabilization -- had produced disaster and was proof of the inability of Americans to do anything at all useful of a military nature in the Arab World.
Although the "Day 'N Nite" singer said he bought a house in Chicago in order to be closer to his daughter, his daughter's mother said that his support has been "sporadic and inconsistent" and cites his history with drugs and alcohol as proof of his inability to provide adequate support.
"Allowing the ruling regime in Syria to kill and burn its people by the chemical weapons, while the world stands idly, without applying deterrent sanctions against the Damascus regime, is also irrefutable evidence and proof of the inability of the Security Council to carry out its duties and responsibilities," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency.
This was glaring proof of Madrid's inability to impose its will.
Some American observers regarded the uprising as further proof of Europe's inability to control the spread of radical Islam.
