WOMEN'S WORK Perhaps the saddest of all the misfits are to be found amongst women, or it may be that their cases seem to us to be saddest because there are so many of them.
Probably nine-tenths of all the misfits which have come under our observation could be classified under one or more of the heads we have outlined in the foregoing chapter.
And yet most ambitious misfits are unwilling to work hard.
When such people are not trained and educated, they are misfits always, because they do not have opportunities to use to their fullest extent the natural intellectual talents with which they have been endowed.
The first class of misfits is composed of those who are too frail for physical labor and who are not well enough educated to take their places amongst clerical or professional workers.
Of course, the great majority of these misfits do not enter upon a life of crime.
As we have seen, a great many of them are misfits in these callings.
The waste of these misfits is threefold: First, the women lose the opportunity for service, profit, and enjoyment which should be theirs.
Everson loafed around the rubber for four misfits and got them.
Then themisfits begrudge those who accomplish things.
The consulting economic psychologist will, therefore at first reasonably confine himself to warning the misfits at an early time.
The fact that so many misfits are at work makes it such an urgent necessity to find ways and means by which the efficiency can be heightened.
Misunderstood and misjudged, they are the hopeless misfits of society.
Vocational misfits have aroused the ardor of our efficiency experts.
An unresolved discord, a continued conflict among the parts of the vegetative system, in spite of such education, is the foundation of the unhappiness of the acute or chronic misfits and maladjusted, the neurotic and the psychotic.
He who sees the ludicrous in misfits must see their sadness too; he who can laugh at a tumble must grieve over it: both are inevitable and both are coincident.
These misfits remind me of an experience when I lectured for the Colfax, Iowa, Chautauqua, some years ago.
Do you know half the failures of life come from misfits of occupation?
Ever since, each half has been running around looking for the other, and the misfits have been many at the marriage altar.
Consider, also, how the misfits of life affect man's value.
The driver bathes the raw shoulder of a horse whose collar does not fit, but when men make their misfits and the heart is sore society does not soothe, but with whips it scourges the man to his fruitless task.
She talked of George Eliot's characters as one would of friends, and lovingly of Maggie Tulliver, that creation of a great woman's brain always tenderly loved bymisfits such as Ann.
The Guesser had asked the woman why--if her statements were true--the Misfits had not conquered the Aristarchy long ago.
III The Guesser had been fighting the Misfits for twenty years, and hating them for as long as he could remember.
Thus the Misfits had become pirates, preying on the merchantships of the Aristarchy.
And it occurred to him that the Misfits might have another kind of trained talent.
Our time agents are misfits in the modern world because their inherited abilities are born out of season now.
These things form a favourite topic with some people, to whom we will at once say, that while there may be misfits in the pulpit, probably they are there in no greater numbers than in other walks of life.
We have known such misfits at the bar; in the surgery; in the shop; at the bench.
Despite efforts of the Establishment to impose conformity, non-conforming individuals continued to be born and to grow up as deviants, misfits and intentional non-conformists.
Misfits who have made a wrong choice and who have no clear call to stay where they are should be advised and helped to find more congenial occupational surroundings.
That so black a man should have borne the name of White was one of the few of such familiar misfits to which the world never becomes insensible from familiarity.
Almshouses were filled, beggars wandered in every street, and these peasants accustomed to the soil and the open country were congested in the cities, unhappy misfits in an entirely new economic environment.
With shoes of crystal peace and glee Christmas his clients proves: They're misfits for those masters pale And their white lady-loves; But O they fit black boys and girls Who clean their knives and stoves!
And our complacency in the presence of the misfits of the school is the saddest tragedy of all.
And a large measure of the responsibility for such discord and misfits in society must be laid at the door of the school because of its inability to discover native tendencies.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "misfits" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
