Two hours later Solon bustled into my own office, whither I had fled to forget his manifest incompetence.

A common incident, a simple phenomenon, which has been a part of their experience, often undergoes what may be called "a transfiguration" in their souls, and issues in the form of Art; while many world-agitating events in which they have not been acters, or majestic phenomena of which they were never spectators, are by them left to the unhesitating incompetence of writers who imagine that fine subjects make fine works.

Impotence N. impotence; inability, disability; disablement, impuissance, imbecility; incapacity, incapability; inaptitude, ineptitude, incompetence, unproductivity^; indocility^; invalidity, disqualification; inefficiency, wastefulness.

The ignorance and incompetence of the working tailors enables a Jew with a business mind, by bribing managers, to obtain a contract for work which he makes no pretence to execute himself.

Gathering together all the silver we could find, and lamenting the incompetence by which we had lost property amounting in value to £2,000, we placed everything in a cart and conveyed it to the barracks.

[Sidenote: Incompetence of Octavius and Metellus.]

I know the difficulties of the station to which I am called, and feel and acknowledge my incompetence to them.

Some children, indeed, so far as regards authority, might be very well managed by a mistress only, but then it must be recollected that an infant school exhibits every variety of temper and disposition; and even were it otherwise, the objection as to intellectual incompetence and physical strength, before adverted to, would still hold good.

Loyalty is a religion which is almost proof against its idol's selfishness and incompetence.

The rest of the fleet had been destroyed, victims to the incompetence and pig-headedness of the naval officer in charge of the harbor.

It would seem as if nothing further could be added to the disgrace of the translator; but we have still one more charge to prove against him, worse than the incompetence, the ignorance, and the dishonesty of which we have already found him guilty.

"My dear, what causes this sweeping assertion of my incompetence?" "I do!

"It's a specific charge of incompetence against you and me.

And when the Puritan stock degenerates in that direction, it is apt to lack good judgment on the business side, and also the passivity which smooths the way for incompetence in less assertive folk.

The degree of irritation that so many men show when expressing themselves on the subject of women in the trades is the measure of their own sense of incompetence to handle it.

In view of my approaching incompetence (no matter how far off it is), I am working at a disadvantage.

But it will not be so easy to explain away a dislocated train service and an empty coal cellar as it was to get a favourable interpretation upon some demonstration of national incompetence half the world away.

The Crimean War found her, if her own journalists were to be believed, without a single great captain whether on land or sea, with incompetence in every department, civil and military, and driven to every shift, even to foreign enlistment and subsidy, to put on foot an army of a hundred thousand men.

He was no architect, as we know from his incompetence to do more than impede Brunelleschi in the building of the dome.

There will always be some who can discern the difference between originality of style, and innovation in doctrine,between a due regard to the opinions of others, and an actual usurpation of their text; and it is incredible that these should ever be satisfied with any mere compilation of grammar, or with any such authorship as either confesses or betrays the writer's own incompetence.

The second lieutenant was leaving the nurse by the extemporized portal of the church, though she seemed not to have done with exposing the incompetence of certain staff officers.

Widespread debt is the outcome of bad management and incompetence, economic or social, and only better management will remedy it.

It is not a pleasant duty to brand any physician for cruelty and incompetence, for the worst that ever lived has undoubtedly done many good deeds.

Now no physician would like to have his wings clipped by a patient, even indirectly, and without doubt the man's pride was piqued as his incompetence was thus made plain.

In the desponding condition of the British people,with a deficient harvest, bad weather, wheat at nearly five dollars a bushel, and the American supply likely to be cut off; consols at 57 1/2, gold at thirty per cent premium; a Ministry without credit or authority, and a general consciousness of blunders, incompetence, and corruption,every new tale of disaster sank the hopes of England and called out wails of despair.

Could the nation Carry this vast mass of incompetents and idlers on its back then; and can it reasonably be expected to do so now?

The government was sound at the core, he claimed; and his own rage was at the few incompetents and profiteers.

However, the German officers were by no means all incompetents.

But I'll admit this detective force is the finest aggregation of incompetents I've ever knownand

So many were desirous of acting that it was much trouble to get rid of incompetents.

For the avenues to the stage are blocked by perhaps more frivolous incompetents than any other profession.

The result was that production fell to such a point that the experts refused to work under such incompetents and gradually escaped to other outlandish districts.

Anyhow, it certainly did not, at this period, lie in the parliamentary Labour Party, that body of incompetents in an incompetent House.

No, Professor Parkhurst, Society does not yet provide for that particular brand of incompetents.

Until the middle of the nineteenth century it was the fashion to regard them as a race of philosophical incompetents.

It's hard upon occasions to be forceful and sublime When you're treated as incompetents three-quarters of the time.

I grew restless under the restraints imposed by a committee of incompetents; besides, the minister who was chairman of the Board, considered a Unitarian to be an infidel, demoralizing the religious life of the young.

No man likes losing his job, and when at long last the inner history of this war comes to be written, we may find that the people we mistook for principals and prime agents were only average incompetents moving all Hell to avoid dismissal.