59 adjectives to describe inconsistency

Bearing this in mind, the apparent inconsistency between the regal rigmarole and the Imperial improvisation (these epithets are a tribute to the Republic) which I have received by our special wire from Europe were addressed by the monarchs to their respective armies before the grand "wiring in" which is to follow.

"In fact, my child," continued her aunt, "our natures are guilty of the grossest inconsistencies.

And at the end of his account, fearing lest the good advice he had given for making the condition of the slaves more comfortable should be construed into an approbation of such a traffic, he employed several pages in showing its utter inconsistency with sound policy, justice, reason, humanity, and religion.

By a curious inconsistency, man will permit woman to help him out of a political dilemma and will then suavely remark that suffrage will degrade her.

This was the most glaring inconsistency in the Protestant position; and the claim which they had thrust aside could not be permanently suppressed.

And may I ask you, whether there is not a little inconsistency between your own lamentations over this work of the abolitionists, and your intimation that the South will never consent to give up her slaves, until the impossibility, of paying her "twelve hundred millions of dollars" for them, shall have been accomplished?

But cases of such flagrant inconsistency are very rare; and this rule, like every other, must be tried by its general, and not its partial effects.

" "There you mistake," said Pamela, changing front with true feminine inconsistency.

It is, indeed, quite probable that such things cannot be adequately represented or put before the human mind without logical inconsistencies and contradictions.

And, in point of fact, the inconsistency of Seneca's life was a conscious inconsistency.

When the reading was over: "It is detestable," said the king; "it shall never be played; the Bastille would have to be destroyed to make the production of this play anything but a dangerous inconsistency.

With doltish and double inconsistency, Weld first calls this "The article a employed in the sense of a preposition," (E. Gram., p. 177,) and afterwards adopts Murray's interpretation as above cited!

To that simple way of thinking, which is merely attentive to the inward truth of the composition, without stumbling at anachronisms or other external inconsistencies, we cannot, alas!

But if, along with these contrasts, we take, for example, Lewis Carroll as opposed to Dr. Johnson, we are brought up against an extraordinary inconsistency.

To most people, however, there is a fascinating inconsistency in the position of St Francis.

" Hope's impulse was to gather into his arms and devour with kisses this sweet specimen of womanly tenderness, frank inconsistency, naïveté, and archness.

I adore your acquired courage, I worship your heavenly inconsistencies.

Like the stories of Daniel, the book of Esther contains many historical inconsistencies.

Whether this is due to the manifest superiority of Catholicism or to the inconsequential and illogical inconsistency in the brains of the yellow race, a profound study of anthropology alone will be able to elucidate.

He upbraids himself with indolence, procrastination, neglect of his worldly concerns, and all other bad habits,and then, with incredible inconsistency, vaunts loudly of his successful efforts in the cause of Literature, Philosophy, Morality, and Religion.

What it did was to bring about a new set of political and social conditions, under which religious liberty could ultimately be secured, and, by virtue of its inherent inconsistencies, to lead to results at which its leaders would have shuddered.

It may be possible that even a brave man, in some moment of insane inconsistency, may commit some act which is the consummation of all cowardice; but it is utterly and absolutely impossible that any brave community should approve it.

In fact, an irreducible inconsistency marred their view of the world.

He seemed to Burke a mass of irresponsible inconsistency.

Against the cry of the Roman Catholic Poles the Prussian has never done, or even pretended to do, anything but harden his heart; but he has (such are the lovable inconsistencies of human nature) a warm corner in his heart for the Roman Catholic Irish.

59 adjectives to describe  inconsistency