Unable, in her customary language, to go on.
His characters are unable, in Larkin's phrase, to climb clear of wrong beginnings.
But he seemed sadly inadequate: unable, in the Sibelius, to lead, follow or get out of the way.
The most authoritative of artists, she seems unable, in "Rupture," to allow her audience a similar measure of authority.
We have one county that is seemingly unable in almost any election to get its returns done on time.
I had finally given it up, probably because I was unable in that form which would have been a straightforward, realistic form.
"All the characters are outsiders, all unable, in their own ways, to connect," says Spall; Nathan is on the autistic spectrum, while Martin suffers from multiple sclerosis.
One man has been unable, in more than a decade, to save the $700 he thinks he would need to start a small business in his hometown.
Unable in 2010 to pay the crushing debt on it, the new owners defaulted, turning over the property to the bondholders and CW Capital.
And it may be unable, in spite of its much fuller coffers, to make a serious dent in the problems of the global economy.
"We have been unable in the last several months to obtain the amounts of food on an ongoing basis that we usually did," said Clyde Fitzgerald, executive director of the Second Harvest food bank in Winston-Salem.
