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  • Their testimony was laughably inconsistent and completely lacking in credibility.†   (source)
  • It cited the "patent inconsistency" of Corporal Anderson's two statements about the bullet hole and denounced Lawton's attempt to cover it up.†   (source)
  • Harry had known all along that Ron was an inconsistent player who suffered from nerves and a lack of confidence, and unfortu-nately, the looming prospect of the opening game of the season seemed to have brought out all his old insecurities.†   (source)
  • Then there was the column that challenged the coat-and-tie dress code, arguing that it was "INCONSISTENT TO DRESS US LIKE GROWN-UPS AND TREAT US LIKE CHILDREN."†   (source)
  • Inconsistent with the scheme of the other nests, but a nice touch.†   (source)
  • She pointed out three areas with inconsistencies, and made a document for Pattie to use when she next met with the landlord.†   (source)
  • The waves were small and inconsistent, and I was just kind of rolling along with them, relaxing on my board with my right hand on the nose of the board and my left arm dangling in the cool water.†   (source)
  • But it was inconsistent and jerky.†   (source)
  • The healthy food we ate was inconsistently provided.†   (source)
  • Admittedly inconsistent with suicide.†   (source)
  • One January morning, the week after Christmas vacation, Gogol sits at his desk by the window and watches a thin, sugary snow fall inconsistently from the sky.†   (source)
  • Unscathed by the Lunar glamour, it knew where the true boundaries of the queen's face were, the imperfections, the inconsistencies.†   (source)
  • But when I pointed out the inconsistency to Lopsang Jangbu Sherpa-Fischer's twenty-threeyear-old climbing sirdar-he insisted that the real problem was not that one of Fischer's climbers had been "sauce-making" at Base Camp but rather that she continued to sleep with her paramour high on the mountain.†   (source)
  • There were a number of inconsistencies and contradictions in the remainder of the message; now and again Tamar would mutter to himself and utter small sounds of frustration.†   (source)
  • On a ranch in Texas, you see animals, birds—you learn to look in the distance and spot movement, shapes, little inconsistencies in the landscape.†   (source)
  • The laws make it illegal to criticize agricultural commodities in a manner inconsistent with "reasonable" scientific evidence.†   (source)
  • But from my observation of Mr Farraday over these months, he is not one of those gentlemen prone to that most irritating of traits in an employer - inconsistency.†   (source)
  • Dog models produced inconsistent results; monkeys were prohibitively expensive; the murines (rats and mice) were cheap enough but so small that we couldn't operate on them.†   (source)
  • There's kind of a glaring inconsistency here, that's almost too obvious to dwell on.†   (source)
  • A 'critical' reading, such as the one he proposed, revealed a number of inconsistencies in the texts.†   (source)
  • The cycle repeated itself at inconsistent intervals, creating invisible eddies that brushed against him like fountains of roiling water.†   (source)
  • But running beneath them is a quiet rumble, inconsistent in its intensity.†   (source)
  • And the radio, too-assuming that it was they who had stolen it, which was something Dewey still hesitated to do, for it appeared to him "ludicrously inconsistent" with the magnitude of the crime and the manifest cunning of the criminals, and "inconceivable" that these men had entered a house expecting to find a money-filled safe, and then, not finding it, had thought it expedient to slaughter the family for perhaps a few dollars and a small portable radio.†   (source)
  • Inconsistent Me could barely look at dinner.†   (source)
  • These details and inconsistencies would take a while to reveal themselves.†   (source)
  • It appeared the results were inconsistent.†   (source)
  • It's inconsistent.†   (source)
  • You're inconsistent.†   (source)
  • [He] sometimes distressed his colleagues with his inability to articulate how he could see so clearly the tiny defects and inconsistencies in a particular work that branded it either an unintelligent reworking or a fake.†   (source)
  • The Rumpelstiltskin Problem is a book by Vivian Vande Velde, conceived because the author was disturbed, as I was, by inconsistencies in a traditional tale.†   (source)
  • I'm not a fan of inconsistency.†   (source)
  • What if he became someone who wandered around the city in a dirty coat handing out life jackets, forced to deny the world because it was inconsistent with his dream?†   (source)
  • I'm not sure what good inconsistent therapy sessions even do, but showing up apparently demonstrates that I'm making an effort.†   (source)
  • There may, in fact, be inconsistencies.†   (source)
  • He was inconsistent: first he disavowed his infidelities, then he tried to justify them.†   (source)
  • His mind flashed over the last few years, searching for inconsistencies in the man's performance.†   (source)
  • The more I am alone with the Alone, the more I surrender to ambivalence, to happy contradictions and seeming inconsistencies in myself and almost everything else, including God.†   (source)
  • Because an inconsiderable party, inconsistent in their own policies, and always hostile to all government but their own, endeavor to obstruct our measures, and clog the wheels of government?†   (source)
  • Behavior seems inconsistent and questionable.†   (source)
  • Second was an inconsistency that kept gnawing at her.†   (source)
  • Mom is arbitrary and inconsistent and always believes she's right.†   (source)
  • Then, on a play that seemed to sum up the inconsistencies of the 2007 season, I handed off to Kestahn, our most talented running back, who had already made that fantastic touchdown catch, and at the end of a beautiful little ten-yard run he simply tripped, unforced and untouched, and fumbled the football.†   (source)
  • But his story was consistent -- and sometimes slightly, reassuringly inconsistent -- with the facts that I could find.†   (source)
  • We are not conspiracy guys, although we do raise some questions about what is unknown and inconsistent.†   (source)
  • There is an absurd inconsistency in how words sound and are spelled, which permits through, threw, true, and too all to rhyme, as do cough and off, rough and ruff Some verbs may be nouns, and vice versa, identifiable only by their position in a sentence, as in My drawing shows him drawing his bow.†   (source)
  • I find your behavior very inconsistent.†   (source)
  • We are all human, and hence subject to human inconsistencies or behavioral modifications that, in one way or another, may cause us to act against our nature.†   (source)
  • I was becoming dangerously frank, inconsistently schizophrenic.†   (source)
  • Jason looked at her, her reaction was too docile, inconsistent with her previous behavior.†   (source)
  • First, factional paralysis made Italy weak on the international stage, and, second, it exaggerated inconsistency and volatility in internal matters.†   (source)
  • In the countless references to liberty, freedom, justice, equal rights, and the like in their letters and diaries, I have found but one reference to any sense of inconsistency between the ideas of fighting for liberty and for slavery.†   (source)
  • But continual change, even if it is good legislation, is inconsistent with every rule of prudence and every hope of success.†   (source)
  • Socrates responds not by specifically denying the charge of atheism, but by attacking Meletus for inconsistency: the charge against him accused him of believing in other gods, not in believing in no gods.†   (source)
  • Which is not inconsistent with evaluation he expressed.†   (source)
  • They would know that inconsistency in human decision can make nonsense of the bestplanned espionage approach; that cheats, liars and criminals may resist every blandishment while respectable gentlemen have been moved to appalling treasons by watery cabbage in a departmental canteen.†   (source)
  • He was curiously inconsistent, now indulging in uninvited confidences, now leaving the most innocent questions unanswered.†   (source)
  • All of us in the Senate meet endless examples of such conflicting pressures, which only reflect the inconsistencies inevitable in our complex economy.†   (source)
  • She showed no repentance, such as Cassie felt, for her inconsistencies.†   (source)
  • We've got a pay-load of inconsistencies to iron out.†   (source)
  • The Capitol's very secretive about this form of torture, and I believe the results are inconsistent.†   (source)
  • "You are inconsistent," said her father mildly.†   (source)
  • My eyes shut, blocking out the inconsistent world, as I try to make sense of my situation.†   (source)
  • No man shall ever charge me with an inconsistency of that kind.†   (source)
  • In each of them complexities, inconsistencies and doubts arise to plague us.†   (source)
  • Seiler ridiculed the prosecution for inconsistencies in the statements of its expert witnesses—most notably Dr. Larry Howard, director of the State Crime Lab.†   (source)
  • As children continued to be hospitalized after eating Jack in the Box hamburgers, J. Patrick Boyle, the head of the American Meat Institute said, "This recent outbreak sheds light on a nationwide problem: inconsistent information about proper cooking temperatures for hamburger."†   (source)
  • Again there is no internal contradiction, only an inconsistency with both Lobachevskian and Euclidian geometries.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, I considered most carefully what might be the most opportune occasion to bring the matter up with him; for although I would not for one moment, as I say, suspect Mr Farraday of inconsistency, it nevertheless made sense not to broach the topic when he was preoccupied or distracted.†   (source)
  • At one point, Cook seized on an apparent inconsistency in the state's theory that Hansford was lying facedown on the floor when he was shot in the head.†   (source)
  • When trying to recreate a whole pattern by deduction from fragments I am bound to commit errors and put down inconsistencies, for which I must ask some indulgence.†   (source)
  • To rip them apart or to break them would create noise inconsistent with the normal sounds of the sanctuary.†   (source)
  • …girl with a good heart who liked helping people, and none of them ever lit my heart—God, I can't stop it with that word now—on fire like she did, but I just needed her so much and it never felt like enough and she wasn't consistent and her inconsistency and my insecurity were this horrible match for each other, but I still loved her, because all of me was wrapped up in her, because I'd put all my eggs in someone else's basket, and in the end, after 343 days, I was left with an empty…†   (source)
  • You can appreciate the inconsistency.†   (source)
  • In the cheerfully lit, pale yellow foyer—at least the building was consistent in its inconsistency—sat an L-shaped desk, the long leg stretching to the rear of the building, where Jeremy saw a large glassed-in room devoted to children.†   (source)
  • That it was, at the least, inconsistent for slave owners to he espousing freedom and equality was not lost on Adams, any more than on others on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.†   (source)
  • He sat with his hands between his knees, listening to the speculations and calculations and ramifications or possibilities and inconsistencies until he was sure his heart had fallen permanently into his stomach.†   (source)
  • I will only add that if a term of four years leaves a doubt of his firmness, that doubt is inconsistent with the worry about his encroachments.†   (source)
  • But if from inexperience or inadvertency, anything should ever escape me inconsistent with propriety, I must entreat you, by putting it to its true cause and not to any want of respect, to pardon and excuse me.†   (source)
  • Inconsistencies began to arise in crucial details, all of which I inexplicably confused and alternated.†   (source)
  • Even if the old were inconsistent and cranky, they did sometimes tell good stories, and this fellow, with his shock of straight white hair, his finely tailored suit, the slim bamboo cane, and a noble bearing that Nicolo had seen only… well, had never seen… would undoubtedly have a lot to say.†   (source)
  • The picture I get from the people who know her is inconsistent with the documentation from the social welfare and psychiatric agencies.†   (source)
  • It's possible, I suppose, but inconsistent with the extraordinary precautions Carlos takes, the literally impenetrable wall of secrecy he's built around himself.†   (source)
  • There were six, each armed with a lightweight machine gun strapped over his shoulders … And there was something else, something that was strikingly inconsistent.†   (source)
  • The light approached, slewing back and forth as the engine swayed over small inconsistencies in the otherwise perfectly parallel steel rails.†   (source)
  • That's the inconsistency, darling.†   (source)
  • Whatever inconsistencies he might find would take too long to unearth for they — or it — had eluded his own experienced eyes as well as London's.†   (source)
  • To someone in authority, inconsistency is betrayal, and you are certainly the only field marshal in the world, in history, to live according to the principles of nonviolence.†   (source)
  • If there is any inconsistency between the letter we are sending them now and letters they have had from Control, they will assume the solution is to be found in the missing letter of March third.†   (source)
  • Taft did not believe that this was inconsistent with the conservative doctrine; conservatism in his opinion was not irresponsibility.†   (source)
  • That very week he had written a friend: "From my earliest youth, I have regarded slavery as a great moral and political evil…… You need not fear that I shall vote for any compromise or do anything inconsistent with the past."†   (source)
  • Fortunately or unfortunately, few follow that urge—but the provocation is there—not only from unreasonable letters and impossible requests, but also from hopelessly inconsistent demands and endlessly unsatisfied grievances.†   (source)
  • But there is one sort of inconsistency that is culpable: it is the inconsistency between a man's conviction and his vote, between his conscience and his conduct.†   (source)
  • He would act according to the creed with which he had challenged the Senate several years earlier: Inconsistencies of opinion arising from changes of circumstances are often justifiable.†   (source)
  • Douglas did what he could to use Lincoln's inconsistency against him.†   (source)
  • Are there any other inconsistencies, such as would point to two people being concerned?†   (source)
  • Father Joseph, that man of inconsistencies, had a pleasing tenor voice, true though not strong.†   (source)
  • Would a special relationship between the United States and the British Commonwealth be inconsistent with our over-riding loyalties to the World Organization?†   (source)
  • This temper that he could not control, and that, considering his worship of reason, his hatred of gush, of exaggeration, of all superlatives, seems inconsistent.†   (source)
  • Alongside of these very arguments we use others totally inconsistent, so that the accusation of repression may be refuted.†   (source)
  • A few friends pointed out to Ellsworth Toohey that he seemed guilty of inconsistency; he was so deeply opposed to individualism, they said, and here were all these writers and artists of his, and every one of them was a rabid individualist.†   (source)
  • That seems to me to be inconsistent.†   (source)
  • There must always remain, however, from the standpoint of normal waking consciousness, a certain baffling inconsistency between the wisdom brought forth from the deep, and the prudence usually found to be effective in the light world.†   (source)
  • Oh, I hold no brief for myself who could (and would ay, doubtless have already) give you a thousand specious reasons good enough for women, ranging from woman's natural inconsistency to the desire (or even hope) for possible wealth, position, or even the fear of dying maniacs which (so they will doubtless tell you) old maids always have or for revenge.†   (source)
  • He can be made to take a positive pleasure in the perception that the two sides of his life are inconsistent.†   (source)
  • Would a special relationship between the United States and the British Commonwealth be inconsistent with our over-riding loyalties to the World Organization?†   (source)
  • It was inevitable that she should accept any inconsistency and cruelty from her deity as all good worshippers do from theirs.†   (source)
  • They were a pleasant race, these coastal Georgians, with their soft-voiced, quick rages and their charming inconsistencies, and Gerald liked them.†   (source)
  • But the Wynand papers had no policy, save that of reflecting the greatest prejudices of the greatest number, and this made for an erratic direction, but a recognizable direction, nevertheless: toward the inconsistent, the irresponsible, the trite and the maudlin.†   (source)
  • Listen, my friend, I think that I should now tell you of certain inconsistencies noticed by Dr. Constantine.†   (source)
  • …and accomplished the overpassing, but some happy marriage of speaking and hearing wherein each before the demand, the requirement, forgave condoned and forgot the faulting of the other—faultings both in the creating of this shade whom they discussed (rather, existed in) and in the hearing and sifting and discarding the false and conserving what seemed true, or fit the preconceived—in order to overpass to love, where there might be paradox and inconsistency but nothing fault nor false.†   (source)
  • Thus even our God becomes a confused and inconsistent creature, giving gifts and denying them employment.†   (source)
  • Frequently Rhett pointed out to Scarlett the inconsistency of her wearing black mourning clothes when she was participating in all social activities.†   (source)
  • He was an inconsistent man.†   (source)
  • The more he thought of it the more convinced he was of his inconsistency.†   (source)
  • She hated war and liked soldiers—it was one of her amiable inconsistencies.†   (source)
  • Yet he was despicable, false, inconsistent, and mean.†   (source)
  • His wishes and plans were both inconsistent and prohibited.†   (source)
  • Then conscience granted a truce, and these curiously inconsistent pirates fell peacefully to sleep.†   (source)
  • His inconsistencies rushed upon him in a flood.†   (source)
  • In short, there were inconsistencies here.†   (source)
  • This must be one of Nature's inconsistencies.†   (source)
  • Do you hear?' she added, waiting with some apparent inconsistency FOR an answer.†   (source)
  • No man can like being driven into the appearance of such inconsistency.†   (source)
  • He seemed surprised — very inconsistently so, as he had just told me to go.†   (source)
  • He did nothing reluctantly, no matter how disagreeable; always at his post, never inconsistent.†   (source)
  • The inconsistency and recklessness of Traddles were not to be exceeded by any real politician.†   (source)
  • But what does it matter to me that it is inconsistent?†   (source)
  • Such an appearance was not inconsistent with exalted rank.†   (source)
  • At length he pushed his plate from him, and spoke aloud; with the strangest inconsistency.†   (source)
  • See what gross inconsistency is tolerated.†   (source)
  • All the impossible orders inconsistent with the course of events remain unexecuted.†   (source)
  • "You certainly are devilish inconsistent!" he broke out at last.†   (source)
  • Then inconsistently, for him, "You've heard she's unhappy!" he added.†   (source)
  • "I cannot possibly countenance any such inconsistent proceeding," chimed in the Dowager Ingram.†   (source)
  • It gave me the most inconsistent opinions of her.†   (source)
  • But, then, my conduct is so inconsistent with my profession, I don't wonder you reprove me."†   (source)
  • I suppose that's natural, but it's rather inconsistent."†   (source)
  • A man who does that is always charged with eccentricity, inconsistency, and that kind of thing.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Penniman was indeed inconsistent, for at this news she gave a little jump of gratification.†   (source)
  • They're very inconsistent; that's their principal interest."†   (source)
  • "Inconsistencies," answered Imlac, "cannot both be right, but imputed to man they may both be true.†   (source)
  • But after this speech, most inconsistently, she hid her face.†   (source)
  • "It's nothing, it's nothing!" said the prince, and again he wore the smile which was so inconsistent with the circumstances.†   (source)
  • Suddenly, as I watched their grotesque and unaccountable gestures, I perceived clearly for the first time what it was that had offended me, what had given me the two inconsistent and conflicting impressions of utter strangeness and yet of the strangest familiarity.†   (source)
  • "Of course," he reflected hopefully and inconsistently, "Alexandra ain't much like other women-folks.†   (source)
  • Yet such is human inconsistency that one of the interests of the new place to her was the accidental virtues of its lying near her forefathers' country (for they were not Blakemore men, though her mother was Blakemore to the bone).†   (source)
  • This smile made K. feel as if he were examining not the words of the painter but seeking out inconsistencies in the procedures of the court itself.†   (source)
  • This was simple and clear, and yet, with cruel inconsistency, whenever he escaped from this nightmare it was to suffer and cry out at the vision of Ona starving.†   (source)
  • Of this maritime Chief of Police the ship's-corporals, so called, were the immediate subordinates, and compliant ones; and this, as is to be noted in some business departments ashore, almost to a degree inconsistent with entire moral volition.†   (source)
  • Though in letters to Madeline his writing was an inconsistent scrawl, in his laboratory notes it was precise.†   (source)
  • She was not above the inconsistency of charging fate, rather than herself, with her own misfortunes; but she inveighed so acrimoniously against love-matches that Lily would have fancied her own marriage had been of that nature, had not Mrs. Bart frequently assured her that she had been "talked into it"—by whom, she never made clear.†   (source)
  • At the moment when she was about to judge him her cousin's voice had intervened, and, ever since, it was Miss Bartlett who had dominated; Miss Bartlett who, even now, could be heard sighing into a crack in the partition wall; Miss Bartlett, who had really been neither pliable nor humble nor inconsistent.†   (source)
  • And so Mrs. Griffiths, in all but one instance, rejected in that fashion and told to go elsewhere—while in regard to the Catholics—instinctively—because of prejudice—as well as a certain dull wisdom not inconsistent with the facts—she failed even to so much as think of them.†   (source)
  • He was, I had discovered, parsimonious about small expenditures--a trait absolutely inconsistent with his general character.†   (source)
  • He did not, however, draw her attention to this inconsistency, for he thought that, if left to herself, Odette might perhaps produce some falsehood which would give him a faint indication of the truth; she spoke; he did not interrupt her, he gathered up, with an eager and sorrowful piety, the words that fell from her lips, feeling (and rightly feeling, since she was hiding the truth behind them as she spoke) that, like the veil of a sanctuary, they kept a vague imprint, traced a faint…†   (source)
  • A strange inconsistency of character made them hate Kells for what they might not have hated in themselves.†   (source)
  • It is so very inconsistent of you to—†   (source)
  • What she said was a falsehood; at least for Odette it was a falsehood, inconsistent, lacking (what it would have had, if true) the support of her memory of her actual arrival at the station; she was even prevented from forming a mental picture of what she was saying, while she said it, by the contradictory picture, in her mind, of whatever quite different thing she had indeed been doing at the moment when she pretended to have been alighting from the train.†   (source)
  • There was dignity, a great deal of dignity, about him, and it was so inconsistent with the look of him that, I assure you, it was quite comical.†   (source)
  • He was already annoyed with himself for having left Monte Carlo, where he had intended to pass the week which remained to him before sailing; but it would now be difficult to return on his steps without an appearance of inconsistency from which his pride recoiled.†   (source)
  • I saw no inconsistency.†   (source)
  • To put with one hand a pedestal under the feet of the two faithful ones, and with the other to exalt the unfaithful by the same artificial means, he deemed to be alike inconsistent with his convictions, his position, and his hopes.†   (source)
  • It was so unlike his usual timid self-constraint; so inconsistent with his usual taste and tact, and with his instinctive feeling for the higher proprieties.†   (source)
  • I am more strict and formal than you, if it comes to that; and that you should object to such an innocent action shows that you are ridiculously inconsistent!†   (source)
  • At first he had left tracks in the snow with his poles, planting them deep, but very soon he quite intentionally freed himself of their tutelage, because it reminded him of the man blowing his little horn and seemed inconsistent with his own innermost feelings for this vast winter wilderness.†   (source)
  • Back again in the cottage, and left to reflection, he saw one thing: that though his kiss of that aerial being had seemed the purest moment of his faultful life, as long as he nourished this unlicensed tenderness it was glaringly inconsistent for him to pursue the idea of becoming the soldier and servant of a religion in which sexual love was regarded as at its best a frailty, and at its worst damnation.†   (source)
  • It would have been inconsistent with her character if in these visits she had been pursuing a chimera; her project was not chimerical at all; she was building on a firm basis—on her knowledge of the character of the Epanchin family, especially Aglaya, whom she studied closely.†   (source)
  • He observed his own inconsistencies in dwelling upon accidents in Tess's life as if they were vital features.†   (source)
  • Every detail of the outing was a facet reflecting a sparkle to Jude, and he did not venture to meditate on the life of inconsistency he was leading.†   (source)
  • The self-denying pair had been occupied in coaxing the appetites of some of their sick parishioners, whom they, somewhat inconsistently, tried to keep imprisoned in the flesh, their own appetites being quite forgotten.†   (source)
  • With this resolve firmly impressed upon her mind, she awoke next day; but during the morning, after her early lunch, she fell into a condition of remarkable inconsistency.†   (source)
  • Possibly she would go on inflicting such pains again and again, and grieving for the sufferer again and again, in all her colossal inconsistency.†   (source)
  • …noncomformist, which had risen in him when suffering under a smarting sense of misconception, remained with him in cold blood, less from any fear of renewed censure than from an ultra-conscientiousness which would not allow him to seek a living out of those who would disapprove of his ways; also, too, from a sense of inconsistency between his former dogmas and his present practice, hardly a shred of the beliefs with which he had first gone up to Christminster now remaining with him.†   (source)
  • It was an inconsistent and ubiquitous fiend too, for, while it was making the whole night behind him dreadful, he darted out into the roadway to avoid dark alleys, fearful of its coming hopping out of them like a dropsical boy's-Kite without tail and wings.†   (source)
  • "It's well enough for me to go out with Laurie, but not well enough to go to the Hummels'," said Jo, laughing, but looking a little ashamed of her inconsistency.†   (source)
  • Now, on the contrary, she was perforce decked out in a way so inconsistent with her age and her figure, that her one anxiety was to contrive that the contrast between these adornments and her own exterior should not be too appalling.†   (source)
  • M. Nioche meditated: there was an inconsistency in his position; it made him chronically uncomfortable.†   (source)
  • As regards this, however, a critical attitude would be inconsistent with a candid reference to the early annals of any biographer.†   (source)
  • The corners of Tom's mouth showed an inclination to a smile of complacency that was immediately checked as inconsistent with the severity of a great warrior.†   (source)
  • Any seeming inconsistencies in Mr. Skimpole or in Mrs. Jellyby I could not expect to be able to reconcile, having so little experience or practical knowledge.†   (source)
  • …whose thoughts were always conducted with the propriety and moderation conspicuous in her manners, remarked to herself that the Miss Gunns were rather hard-featured than otherwise, and that such very low dresses as they wore might have been attributed to vanity if their shoulders had been pretty, but that, being as they were, it was not reasonable to suppose that they showed their necks from a love of display, but rather from some obligation not inconsistent with sense and modesty.†   (source)
  • Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, and Demi-Liard, alias Deux-Milliards, who had been inconsistently condemned, after a hearing of both sides of the case, to ten years in the galleys.†   (source)
  • Nor were it an inconsistency too improbable to be assigned to human nature, should we suppose a feeling of regret in Hester's mind, at the moment when she was about to win her freedom from the pain which had been thus deeply incorporated with her being.†   (source)
  • Then Mrs. Henchard acted somewhat inconsistently; it might have been called falsely, but that her manner was emotional and full of the earnestness of one who wishes to do right at great hazard.†   (source)
  • For my own part, however, I respect him none the less—nay, I think the deep love he had for that sweet, rounded, blossom-like, dark-eyed Hetty, of whose inward self he was really very ignorant, came out of the very strength of his nature and not out of any inconsistent weakness.†   (source)
  • It is necessary to keep these inconsistencies of John's character in view, that the reader may understand his conduct during the present evening.†   (source)
  • But if I am to be accused of timidity and of inconsistency in my principles, this is what I want to point out: my political past is an open book.†   (source)
  • Fortunately, the previous explanations of Hist had prepared the minds of the Hurons for something extravagant, and most of that which to them seemed inconsistent and paradoxical, was accounted for by the fact that the speaker possessed a mind that was constituted differently from those of most of the human race.†   (source)
  • Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies, do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.†   (source)
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