It is unadaptable to subtlety or circumlocution.
Unemployment cannot be brought down rapidly, declared one 1935 analysis, because the work force is "unadaptable and untrained.
You have a track record for taking seemingly unadaptable novels and turning them into fully cinematic works.
Only one of the pack is found stubbornly unadaptable and is discovered trying to strangle a mallard with her rosary beads.
Its NHS hospitals, government offices, council flats and "urban renewals" proved hard to maintain, easy to vandalise and unadaptable to new uses.
His questions are so rambling and lacking in wit, his strategy so unadaptable when offered a chance to attack, that he rarely lands blows.
He began a reorganization of the revenues from the crown estates, experimenting with methods of improving yields and promoting more efficient auditing under officials of the flexible royal household treasury instead of the unadaptable Exchequer.
It was said to be a family virtue (the family name, Watzlawik, became a properly German "Waldheim" when German names got to be more desirable than Slavic ones), although Waldheim's father, Walter, was notably unadaptable.
A few years later, a large defense buildup finally provided a fiscal stimulus adequate to the economy's needs — and suddenly industry was eager to employ those "unadaptable and untrained" workers.
Might they be better equipped for the modern male world, having embraced and explored violence and discovered true answers come harder than that, than many contemporaries, left without jobs in a post-industrial north, but still silent, closed, unadaptable?
The disintegration predicted by Tom Nairn in his book The Break-Up of Britain almost 40 years ago – he called Britain "a basically indefensible and unadaptable relic, not a modern state form" – would have come to pass.
