The ineptitudeof such performance reached a climax in Lodovico Martelli's Tullia, where the Roman legend of Lucius Tarquinius is violently altered to suit the plot of Sophocles' Electra.
The very style of the schoolmen became a byword for ineptitude and barbarism.
At the same time, since maccaroni was the special delicacy of the proletariate, and since a stupid fellow was called a Maccherone, the ineptitude and the vulgarity of the species are indicated by its title.
That which is too easily honored with the title of modesty is generally nothing more than a screen behind which conscious ineptitude conceals itself.
He hides his ineptitudebehind this convenient veil whose thickness allows him to hint of the existence of things which are nothing but figments of his imagination.
Nevertheless, the criticisms that were levelled against the ineptitudeand mental inelasticity of the generals and the staff of the old army overshot the mark.
The disappointment was made worse by the ineptitude of the Admiralty and the ignorance of the press, which emphasized our losses without explaining the significance of our success.
So quickly did the forcefulness or ineptitude of four commanders determine the course of events.
To the ineptitude of the former the French Revolution was in large measure due.
Here Makar picked up many a side-splitting story illustrative of the corruption, intemperance and childlike ineptitude of government officials.
Indeed, the circumstances of the Janitor's arrest only furnished new proof of the ineptitude and shiftlessness of those whose business it was to ferret out Nihilism.
And he relapsed into silence, vexed at the ineptitude of the second sentence.
As the hostess, she blushed for the ineptitude of the conversation, especially as she noticed smiles and even astonishment among the guests who had been invited for the first time.
This may seem strange to an American, but to those who know the ignorance and ineptitude of the Spanish administration, it will seem a matter of course.
She poured out, in one of her enormous letters, a passionate diatribe upon the faithlessness, the lack of sympathy, the stupidity, the ineptitude of women.
He rebutted the charges of imaginary enemies; he laid bare the ineptitude and the faithlessness of the English Government.
Till the soul grows godlike: brief,--you front no numskull Shaming by ineptitude the Greece that gave him birth!
But argument is solid and subsists, While obstinacy and ineptitude Accompany the owner to his tomb; What do I care how soon?
It can be had by merely not observing the ineptitude of our chance prejudices, and by declaring that the first rhymes that have struck our ear are the eternal and necessary harmonies of the world.
Ineptitude is something which language needs to shake off.
The system, however, as it might strike a less egotistical reader, is a long demonstration of man's ineptitude and of nature's contemptuous march over a path paved with good intentions.
No instinct or institution was ever so absurd as is a large part of human poetry and philosophy, while the margin of ineptitude is much broader in religious myth than in religious ethics.
In trying to employ black manpower on a broader professional scale, he warned, the Army must recognize the "ineptitude and limited capacity of the Negro soldier.
Not the least of these were the benumbing discrimination suffered by black servicemen during training, the humiliations involved in their assignments, and the ineptitude of many of their leaders, who were most often white.
Furthermore, of the forty thousand men one quarter at least remained out of action through the ineptitude and political terror of Dumesny, Houchard's lieutenant upon the right.
It pitched its tent--what else could it do, seeing that municipal ineptitude provided no building wherein could be run chariot races of six horses abreast?
That meaningless bit of moonshine ineptitude I quoted the other day?
The Combes cabinet could not survive the delation scandal, in spite of the resignation of the minister of war and the ineptitude of the opposition.
The municipal elections in Paris afforded fresh proof of the unchanging political ineptitude of the reactionaries.
The history of every country contains phases of political ineptitude in which that country becomes so misgoverned as to be not only a nuisance to the foreigner within its borders but a danger to its neighbours.
What a confession of the ineptitude of justice that rogues so old should be at large!
Since her spirited appearance in the Coroner's Court, her inter-prandial addresses were confined to two themes--the ineptitude of the law and the high character of her employer.
I shall pick out but a few sentences, that I may add some little facts, casually preserved, of the ineptitude of such an officer.
It is a collection of these court-anagrams; a remarkable evidence of that ineptitude to which mere fashionable wit can carry the frivolous.
Lacking in statesmanship as were Philip and all his advisers, it would nevertheless be unjust to attribute to their ineptitude alone the troubles that overwhelmed Spain.
Lerma at least, in his long ministry, had managed to conceal from the indolent King the utter ruin that threatened; but the ineptitude of the new favourites made the misery patent even to him.
The days of Britain's pre-war ineptitude are so recent that even an active progressive failure would be a matter scarcely to be deplored.
He had discovered that his efforts were not directed against private individuals, but against the British naval authority, an authority he had reason to know had nothing of the ineptitude of other departments of the Government.
But for her encouragement it might have been some years before he broke out of hobble-de-hoydom and the semi-vicious ineptitude that goes with it.
That I should be the first to succumb to space-ineptitude and be an awkward burden on the rest of them!
I am desolate and my old space-ineptitude has returned.
They proceeded, also, to cultivate a state of mind which has kept them peculiarly liable to intellectual ineptitude and conformity.
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