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  • Moore's argument is that the attitude of the Early Adopters and the attitude of the Early Majority are fundamentally incompatible.†   (source)
  • Tiffany and Bunsen burners were incompatible.†   (source)
  • Or do you say, 'We are incompatible, these rats and I. If I am to live here, these vermin must die'?"†   (source)
  • The fact that they loved each other was merely proof that the fault lay not in themselves, in their behavior or inconstancy of feeling, but rather in their incompatibility: he was strong and she was weak.†   (source)
  • But I shirked that responsibility; I became too snarled in the incompatible notions that buzzed within my brain.†   (source)
  • You're both so weird and incompatible with anyone else that you're perfect for each other.†   (source)
  • He saw defensively belligerent men and tastelessly dressed women-he saw mean, rancorous, suspicious faces that bore the one mark incompatible with a standard bearer of the intellect: the mark of uncertainty.†   (source)
  • Of course, he also firmly held the incompatible belief that Mr. Frodo was the wisest person in the world (with the possible exception of Old Mr. Bilbo and of Gandalf).†   (source)
  • It's here, of course, that what I heard and what I pieced together was incompatible.†   (source)
  • This idea, part of Jefferson's legacy to America, written down in one of the country's noblest documents, was incompatible with the idea of legalized slavery.†   (source)
  • This activity is incompatible with a nation of soldiers.†   (source)
  • You know as well as I that your foodstuffs are chemically incompatible.†   (source)
  • He simply ordered the tunnels blown, or blew them himself, and he saw no incompatibility between this and his mission as a soldier.†   (source)
  • In the world of the crematoriums hatred is a reckless and incontinent passion, incompatible with the humdrum nature of the quotidian task.†   (source)
  • They stood apart, confronting each other, incompatible.†   (source)
  • BERENGER: Well at any rate, we have our own moral standards which I consider incompatible with the standards of these animals.†   (source)
  • Any nineteenth century physicist could have given unassailable reasons why atom bombs were impossible if his reason were not affronted at the question; any twentieth century physicist could explain why time travel was incompatible with the real world of space-time.†   (source)
  • So maybe you have this premonition that there is something fundamentally incompatible and you're preempting the preemption.   (source)
  • ERROR-505 (POWER INCOMPATIBLE WITH COMMAND ERROR.†   (source)
  • In today's world, ideas that are incompatible with scientific knowledge don't get off the ground.†   (source)
  • ERROR-505 (POWER INCOMPATIBLE WITH COMMAND ERROR.†   (source)
  • "Their chemistry is incompatible with ours," Agent Poore said.†   (source)
  • Therefore, they are incompatible with jury trials.†   (source)
  • Some are incompatible with the interests of the Union.†   (source)
  • Others are incompatible with the principles of good government.†   (source)
  • Why was power incompatible?†   (source)
  • Incompatible with life!†   (source)
  • That all ambitions were incompatible?†   (source)
  • The disturbing thing about the test is that it shows that our unconscious attitudes may be utterly incompatible with our stated conscious values.†   (source)
  • What the great theologian found incompatible with Paradise was not sexual intercourse and the attendant pleasure; what he found incompatible with Paradise was excitement.†   (source)
  • They have taught him that his body and his consciousness are two enemies engaged in deadly conflict, two antagonists of opposite natures, contradictory claims, incompatible needs, that to benefit one is to injure the other, that his soul belongs to a supernatural realm, but his body is an evil prison holding it in bondage to this earth-and that the good is to defeat his body, to undermine it by years of patient struggle, digging his way to that glorious jail-break which leads into the…†   (source)
  • We're incompatible."†   (source)
  • In a similar manner, when State sovereignty is incompatible with the happiness of the people, every good citizen should cry out: Let the former be sacrificed to the latter.†   (source)
  • There are three types of exclusive federal authority: where the Constitution says that the federal government will have exclusive authority, where the Constitution gives the federal government a specific authority and the States are prohibited from having a similar authority, or where the Constitution gives the federal government an authority and a similar authority in the States would be incompatible.†   (source)
  • And so our widened incompatibility ended at last in open conflict.†   (source)
  • 'To a softening down of your ideas of the incompatibility?' said Bounderby.†   (source)
  • The fact is that we had absolutely incompatible dispositions and habits of thought and action, and our danger and isolation only accentuated the incompatibility.†   (source)
  • And so for history, the insoluble mystery presented by the incompatibility of free will and inevitability does not exist as it does for theology, ethics, and philosophy.†   (source)
  • What I suffered from, was the incompatibility between his cold presence and my feelings towards Estella.†   (source)
  • These evidences of an incompatibility of temper induced Miss Betsey to pay him off, and effect a separation by mutual consent.†   (source)
  • The nearest approach to her was a Unitarian minister from Boston, who very soon demanded a separation, for incompatibility of temper.†   (source)
  • 'I should hope, if there was any incompatibility to meet the pecuniary obligations,' said Miss La Creevy with another cough, 'that the lady's family would—'†   (source)
  • Now, there's an incompatibility of some sort or another, I am given to understand by you, between your daughter and me.†   (source)
  • But Pierre did not know this; he was entirely absorbed in what lay before him, and was tortured—as those are who obstinately undertake a task that is impossible for them not because of its difficulty but because of its incompatibility with their natures—by the fear of weakening at the decisive moment and so losing his self-esteem.†   (source)
  • In the British climate there is no incompatibility between scientific insight and furnished lodgings: the incompatibility is chiefly between scientific ambition and a wife who objects to that kind of residence.†   (source)
  • He did not mean to think of furniture at present; but whenever he did so it was to be feared that neither biology nor schemes of reform would lift him above the vulgarity of feeling that there would be an incompatibility in his furniture not being of the best.†   (source)
  • What I shall say to people in general, of the incompatibility that led to my so laying down the law, will be this.†   (source)
  • 'I fear there is at present a general incompatibility between Louisa, and — and — and almost all the relations in which I have placed her,' was her father's sorrowful reply.†   (source)
  • 'I gather from all this, Tom Gradgrind,' said Bounderby, standing up with his hands in his pockets, 'that you are of opinion that there's what people call some incompatibility between Loo Bounderby and myself.'†   (source)
  • I'll give you to understand, in reply to that, that there unquestionably is an incompatibility of the first magnitude — to be summed up in this — that your daughter don't properly know her husband's merits, and is not impressed with such a sense as would become her, by George! of the honour of his alliance.†   (source)
  • It isn't only art that's incompatible with happiness; it's also science.†   (source)
  • Is there anything incompatible between monasticism and trigonometry?†   (source)
  • Our attitudes and our backgrounds are incompatible.†   (source)
  • But the demands of Christianity and the success myth are incompatible.†   (source)
  • …Becket, at the King's instance, had been made Arch bishop, he resigned the office of Chancellor, he became more priestly than the priests, he ostentatiously and offensively adopted an as cetic manner of life, he openly abandoned every policy that he had heretofore sup ported; he affirmed immediately that there was a higher order than that which our King, and he as the King's servant, had for so many years striven to establish; and that God knows why the two orders were incompatible.†   (source)
  • He was a total abstainer and a nonsmoker, had no recreations except a daily hour in the gymnasium, and had taken a vow of celibacy, believing marriage and the care of a family to be incompatible with a twenty-four-hour-a-day devotion to duty.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, he refused to use expressions such as "your kindness," "gratitude," or even "solicit," which, to his thinking, were incompatible with his personal dignity.†   (source)
  • Special associations between members of the United Nations which have no aggressive point against any other country, which harbor no design incompatible with the Charter of the United Nations, far from being harmful, are beneficial and, as I believe, indispensable.†   (source)
  • Your man has been accustomed, ever since he was a boy, to have a dozen incompatible philosophies dancing about together inside his head.†   (source)
  • , and incompatible metaphors are frequently mixed, a sure sign that the writer is not interested in what he is saying.†   (source)
  • Special associations between members of the United Nations which have no aggressive point against any other country, which harbor no design incompatible with the Charter of the United Nations, far from being harmful, are beneficial and, as I believe, indispensable.†   (source)
  • According to him, he felt a particular aversion from talking about his "rights"-the word was one that gave him pause-and likewise from mentioning a "promise"-which would have implied that he was claiming his due and thus bespoken an audacity incompatible with the humble post he filled.†   (source)
  • Let him regard them as his crosses: let him forget that, since they are incompatible, they cannot all happen to him, and let him try to practise fortitude and patience to them all in advance.†   (source)
  • It would be incompatible with what she owed to her father, and with what she felt for him.†   (source)
  • Women find nothing incompatible in that.†   (source)
  • Sorely was poor Silas puzzled on such occasions by the incompatible demands of love.†   (source)
  • He was, himself, moreover, composed of two elements, which were, to all appearance, incompatible.†   (source)
  • Though I lay claim to the happiness of your hand, I cannot accept duties incompatible with….†   (source)
  • Although that does not mean I've abandoned what I thought earlier as the two versions are, to some extent, not incompatible.†   (source)
  • And since he must support himself in some form not absolutely incompatible with the standing of the Griffiths family here in Lycurgus, it was decided to pay him the munificent sum of fifteen dollars to begin.†   (source)
  • That was her self when some effort, some call on her to be her self, drew the parts together, she alone knew how different, how incompatible and composed so for the world only into one centre, one diamond, one woman who sat in her drawing-room and made a meeting-point, a radiancy no doubt in some dull lives, a refuge for the lonely to come to, perhaps; she had helped young people, who were grateful to her; had tried to be the same always, never showing a sign of all the other sides of…†   (source)
  • …possess that element of strangeness that is so essential to romance, he would often adopt certain modes of thought that he knew to be really alien to his nature, abandon himself to their subtle influences, and then, having, as it were, caught their colour and satisfied his intellectual curiosity, leave them with that curious indifference that is not incompatible with a real ardour of temperament, and that indeed, according to certain modern psychologists, is often a condition of it.†   (source)
  • There can be no doubt that Stapleton exercised an influence over her which may have been love or may have been fear, or very possibly both, since they are by no means incompatible emotions.†   (source)
  • Habitually living with the elements and knowing little more of the land than as a beach, or, rather, that portion of the terraqueous globe providentially set apart for dance-houses, doxies and tapsters, in short what sailors call a "fiddlers'-green," his simple nature remained unsophisticated by those moral obliquities which are not in every case incompatible with that manufacturable thing known as respectability.†   (source)
  • Peeperkorn certainly treated Naphta and Settembrini with courtesy and attention—with a respect that Hans Castorp would have called ironic, if the insight that irony and great stature are incompatible had not prevented him from doing so.†   (source)
  • In our Father's house are many mansions, they taught, and there alone will the incompatible multitudes of mankind be welcomed and soothed.†   (source)
  • If these two factors seem incompatible to the student of feminine psychology, it must be remembered that Gerty had always been a parasite in the moral order, living on the crumbs of other tables, and content to look through the window at the banquet spread for her friends.†   (source)
  • They are not on speaking terms; and they have put before us three distinct and incompatible views of Social-Democracy.†   (source)
  • The fact is that we had absolutely incompatible dispositions and habits of thought and action, and our danger and isolation only accentuated the incompatibility.†   (source)
  • I mean that all this business puts us on unnatural terms, with which natural relations are incompatible.†   (source)
  • Here, Kitty, come and look at my plan; I shall think I am a great architect, if I have not got incompatible stairs and fireplaces.†   (source)
  • She was an apt woman; and a little experience soon demonstrated, to her satisfaction, that education and slavery were incompatible with each other.†   (source)
  • She had only meant to oppose the too common idea of spirit and gentleness being incompatible with each other, not at all to represent Captain Benwick's manners as the very best that could possibly be; and, after a little hesitation, she was beginning to say, "I was not entering into any comparison of the two friends," but the Admiral interrupted her with— "And the thing is certainly true.†   (source)
  • As the sovereignty of the Union is limited and incomplete, its exercise is not incompatible with liberty; for it does not excite those insatiable desires of fame and power which have proved so fatal to great republics.†   (source)
  • If any one considers this unfair and even oppressive toward Tom, I beg him to consider that there are feminine virtues which are with difficulty combined, even if they are not incompatible.†   (source)
  • He already showed that thought is a disease of flesh, and indirectly bore evidence that ideal physical beauty is incompatible with emotional development and a full recognition of the coil of things.†   (source)
  • Trade is incompatible with nobility.†   (source)
  • We are more distinctly conscious that rude penances are out of the question for gentlemen in an enlightened age, and that mortal sin is not incompatible with an appetite for muffins.†   (source)
  • Your happiness and advantage are all that I have in view, and nothing is required of you but to bear with Mr. Crawford's endeavours to convince you that they may not be incompatible with his.†   (source)
  • I shall be told, perhaps, that red cheeks are not incompatible with fanaticism and mysticism; but I fancy that Alyosha was more of a realist than any one.†   (source)
  • He was sorry that his noble mind should take offence; still, he felt the fact to be not incompatible with its nobility, and sought to propitiate and conciliate that gallant soul.†   (source)
  • As for the probability of the plot, it is incompatible with perpetual novelty, surprise, and rapidity of invention.†   (source)
  • …impulsive, indifferent sword, sometimes hitting the woof slantingly, or crookedly, or strongly, or weakly, as the case might be; and by this difference in the concluding blow producing a corresponding contrast in the final aspect of the completed fabric; this savage's sword, thought I, which thus finally shapes and fashions both warp and woof; this easy, indifferent sword must be chance—aye, chance, free will, and necessity—nowise incompatible—all interweavingly working together.†   (source)
  • It is a very genuine admiration, that with which persons too shy or too awkward to take a due part in the bustling world regard the real actors in life's stirring scenes; so genuine, in fact, that the former are usually fain to make it palatable to their self-love, by assuming that these active and forcible qualities are incompatible with others, which they choose to deem higher and more important.†   (source)
  • 'May I ask to be favoured with your view of it?' said Mr Dorrit, with a deference not incompatible with majestic serenity.†   (source)
  • I thought this sentiment so incompatible with the establishment of any system of check on Mary Anne, that I frowned a little.†   (source)
  • …those times, when the true form of the whale was unknown to artists; and considering that as in Perseus' case, St. George's whale might have crawled up out of the sea on the beach; and considering that the animal ridden by St. George might have been only a large seal, or sea-horse; bearing all this in mind, it will not appear altogether incompatible with the sacred legend and the ancientest draughts of the scene, to hold this so-called dragon no other than the great Leviathan himself.†   (source)
  • In America, as in France, it constitutes a singular power, so strangely composed of mingled good and evil that it is at the same time indispensable to the existence of freedom, and nearly incompatible with the maintenance of public order.†   (source)
  • And when farther pressed, had added, that in her opinion their dispositions were so totally dissimilar as to make mutual affection incompatible; and that they were unfitted for each other by nature, education, and habit.†   (source)
  • Protestantism sat at ease, unmindful of schisms, careless of proselytism: Dissent was an inheritance along with a superior pew and a business connection; and Churchmanship only wondered contemptuously at Dissent as a foolish habit that clung greatly to families in the grocery and chandlering lines, though not incompatible with prosperous wholesale dealing.†   (source)
  • But since my duty has not been incompatible with the admission of that remembrance, I have given it a place in my heart.†   (source)
  • Alick said everybody was gone to church "but th' young missis"—so he called Dinah—but this did not disappoint Adam, although the "everybody" was so liberal as to include Nancy the dairymaid, whose works of necessity were not unfrequently incompatible with church-going.†   (source)
  • The discussion of some topics, even with Mrs. Micawber herself (so long the partner of my various vicissitudes, and a woman of a remarkable lucidity of intellect), is, I am led to consider, incompatible with the functions now devolving on me.†   (source)
  • But you may have an interest—I will not say, now, though even that might be—may have, at another time, an interest in some one else; an interest not incompatible with your affection here.'†   (source)
  • Such apprehensions are, however, premature; the instability which affects political institutions is of two kinds, which ought not to be confounded: the first, which modifies secondary laws, is not incompatible with a very settled state of society; the other shakes the very foundations of the Constitution, and attacks the fundamental principles of legislation; this species of instability is always followed by troubles and revolutions, and the nation which suffers under it is in a state…†   (source)
  • Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible.†   (source)
  • …on his boots, or holding his head on with both arms as if he felt it loose, or accidentally kicking Traddles under the table, or shuffling his feet over one another, or producing them at distances from himself apparently outrageous to nature, or lying sideways with his hair among the wine-glasses, or developing his restlessness of limb in some other form incompatible with the general interests of society; and by Master Micawber's receiving those discoveries in a resentful spirit.†   (source)
  • But he had spoken to her alone, and had said that people—ha—people in an exalted position, my dear, must scrupulously exact respect from their dependents; and that for her, his daughter, Miss Amy Dorrit, of the sole remaining branch of the Dorrits of Dorsetshire, to be known to—hum—to occupy herself in fulfilling the functions of—ha hum—a valet, would be incompatible with that respect.†   (source)
  • …we can discuss the absolute advantages of the elective system we must make preliminary inquiries as to whether the geographical position, the laws, the habits, the manners, and the opinions of the people amongst whom it is to be introduced will admit of the establishment of a weak and dependent executive government; for to attempt to render the representative of the State a powerful sovereign, and at the same time elective, is, in my opinion, to entertain two incompatible designs.†   (source)
  • And it was true that Bulstrode found himself carrying on two distinct lives; his religious activity could not be incompatible with his business as soon as he had argued himself into not feeling it incompatible.†   (source)
  • The character of the publican and sinner is not always practically incompatible with that of the modern Pharisee, for the majority of us scarcely see more distinctly the faultiness of our own conduct than the faultiness of our own arguments, or the dulness of our own jokes.†   (source)
  • The fragile creature who was crying close to her—there might still be time to rescue her from the misery of false incompatible bonds; and this moment was unlike any other: she and Rosamond could never be together again with the same thrilling consciousness of yesterday within them both.†   (source)
  • And Lydgate fell to spinning that web from his inward self with wonderful rapidity, in spite of experience supposed to be finished off with the drama of Laure—in spite too of medicine and biology; for the inspection of macerated muscle or of eyes presented in a dish (like Santa Lucia's), and other incidents of scientific inquiry, are observed to be less incompatible with poetic love than a native dulness or a lively addiction to the lowest prose.†   (source)
  • I tax no man's motives: let them lie between himself and a higher Power; but I do say, that there are influences at work here which are incompatible with genuine independence, and that a crawling servility is usually dictated by circumstances which gentlemen so conducting themselves could not afford either morally or financially to avow.†   (source)
  • As this silence continued, every day made it appear more strange and more incompatible with the disposition of both.†   (source)
  • Yet his electors could have no idea of giving hereditary right to his descendants, because such a perpetual exclusion of themselves was incompatible with the free and unrestrained principles they professed to live by.†   (source)
  • I rejoice that the state of your concerns, external as well as internal, no longer renders the pursuit of inclination incompatible with the sentiment of duty or propriety, and am persuaded, whatever partiality may be retained for my services, that, in the present circumstances of our country, you will not disapprove my determination to retire.†   (source)
  • Sometimes it appeared to them as if his silence would be the natural result of the suspected engagement, and at others that it was wholly incompatible with it.†   (source)
  • Though his looks did not please her, his name was a passport to her goodwill, and she thought with sincere compassion of his approaching disappointment; for, in spite of what she had believed herself to overhear in the pump-room, his behaviour was so incompatible with a knowledge of Isabella's engagement that she could not, upon reflection, imagine him aware of it.†   (source)
  • The incompatibility of aquacity with the erratic originality of genius.†   (source)
  • …Sinbad and his horrifying adventures (who reminded him a bit of Ludwig, alias Ledwidge, when he occupied the boards of the Gaiety when Michael Gunn was identified with the management in the Flying Dutchman, a stupendous success, and his host of admirers came in large numbers, everyone simply flocking to hear him though ships of any sort, phantom or the reverse, on the stage usually fell a bit flat as also did trains) there was nothing intrinsically incompatible about it, he conceded.†   (source)
  • Of a Part, or Province; as when either a Monarch, or a Soveraign Assembly, shall give the generall charge thereof to a Governour, Lieutenant, Praefect, or Vice-Roy: And in this case also, every one of that Province, is obliged to all he shall doe in the name of the Soveraign, and that not incompatible with the Soveraigns Right.†   (source)
  • The probability of incompatible alliances between the different States or confederacies and different foreign nations, and the effects of this situation upon the peace of the whole, have been sufficiently unfolded in some preceding papers.†   (source)
  • Imagine all contradictions, all possible incompatibilities—you will find them in the government, in the law-courts, in the churches, in the public shows of this droll nation.†   (source)
  • Thus, as our duty to the king can never be called more than our second duty, he had discharged us from this by making it incompatible with our preserving the first, which is surely to heaven.†   (source)
  • Besides this, the circumstances that constitute cases proper for courts of equity are in many instances so nice and intricate, that they are incompatible with the genius of trials by jury.†   (source)
  • You will easily believe, sir, that such a life as I am now describing must be incompatible with my further progress in learning; and that in proportion as I addicted myself more and more to loose pleasure, I must grow more and more remiss in application to my studies.†   (source)
  • Is it natural to suppose, that a command to do one thing is a prohibition to the doing of another, which there was a previous power to do, and which is not incompatible with the thing commanded to be done?†   (source)
  • The States, by the plan of the convention, are prohibited from doing a variety of things, some of which are incompatible with the interests of the Union, and others with the principles of good government.†   (source)
  • Accurate and comprehensive knowledge of foreign politics; a steady and systematic adherence to the same views; a nice and uniform sensibility to national character; decision, SECRECY, and despatch, are incompatible with the genius of a body so variable and so numerous.†   (source)
  • Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.†   (source)
  • The industrious habits of the people of the present day, absorbed in the pursuits of gain, and devoted to the improvements of agriculture and commerce, are incompatible with the condition of a nation of soldiers, which was the true condition of the people of those republics.†   (source)
  • In a branch of taxation where no limits to the discretion of the government are to be found in the nature of things, the establishment of a fixed rule, not incompatible with the end, may be attended with fewer inconveniences than to leave that discretion altogether at large.†   (source)
  • To maintain that such an event would have ensued, would be to say at once, that the existence of the State governments is incompatible with any system whatever that accomplishes the essential purposes of the Union.†   (source)
  • …whenever they find it inconsistent with their happiness, yet it is not to be inferred from this principle, that the representatives of the people, whenever a momentary inclination happens to lay hold of a majority of their constituents, incompatible with the provisions in the existing Constitution, would, on that account, be justifiable in a violation of those provisions; or that the courts would be under a greater obligation to connive at infractions in this shape, than when they had…†   (source)
  • …capriciousness of the human mind, that after all the admonitions we have had from experience on this head, there should still be found men who object to the new Constitution, for deviating from a principle which has been found the bane of the old, and which is in itself evidently incompatible with the idea of GOVERNMENT; a principle, in short, which, if it is to be executed at all, must substitute the violent and sanguinary agency of the sword to the mild influence of the magistracy.†   (source)
  • …retain all PRE-EXISTING authorities which may not be exclusively delegated to the federal head; and that this exclusive delegation can only exist in one of three cases: where an exclusive authority is, in express terms, granted to the Union; or where a particular authority is granted to the Union, and the exercise of a like authority is prohibited to the States; or where an authority is granted to the Union, with which a similar authority in the States would be utterly incompatible.†   (source)
  • Every just reasoner will, at first sight, approve an adherence to this rule, in the work of the convention; and will disapprove every deviation from it which may not appear to have been dictated by the necessity of incorporating into the work some particular ingredient, with which a rigid conformity to the rule was incompatible.†   (source)
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