inelegancies

Republican critics dwelt with no light hand upon the deficiencies of these volumes, and Marshall himself sadly owned that the "inelegancies" in the first were astonishingly numerous.

John Marshall and the Constitution; a chronicle of the Supreme court Edward Samuel Corwin 1920

(Surely he could have expressed (exposed?) himself better, but out of a desire to seem clever ... and all inelegancies of style have been retained.)

A Mess 2010

"Lacanian's are the wurst of all orthodox Freudian schools, but of the rest none are better" - semi quote from memory and where although 'Horatio's philosophy' dreams of a thirteen billion year old "Big Bang" coming home all too neatly to synthetically roost and recline by a joy filled "big Crunch", the inelegancies of existence are yet breaking out through the trouser seams of life.

Life is Life (or Ode to a great big idiot like Zizek) 2010

I opened my email the day before yesterday and got offered a trial at a Skype mobile phone as linked to and talked about with writing inelegancies, le sigh.

I feel like a proper blogger now jinty 2007

Do not be too angry with my circumlocution and inelegancies of expression, and, believe me

The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte 2006

“I could weed the letters of their chief faults of construction & inelegancies of expression, & make a volume that would be more acceptable in many respects than any I could now write…I could strike out certain letters, & write new ones wherewith to supply their places…”28 He asked for more details on the size and general style of such a book, and an idea of how much money he might make from it.

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

“I could weed the letters of their chief faults of construction & inelegancies of expression, & make a volume that would be more acceptable in many respects than any I could now write…I could strike out certain letters, & write new ones wherewith to supply their places…”28 He asked for more details on the size and general style of such a book, and an idea of how much money he might make from it.

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

Certainly, in one place to allow those who would speak eloquently so carefully to dispose their speech as even to observe a decorum in the very composition of their mouth and hands, and in another place to forbid the taking care of defects and inelegancies, and the being ashamed even of committing solecisms, is the property of

Essays and Miscellanies 2004

I could weed them of their chief faults of construction and inelegancies of expression, and make a volume that would be more acceptable in many respects than any I could now write.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

It was necessary, therefore, to revise the book throughout for literary inelegancies — of which I found many more than I had expected — and also to make such substantial additions as should secure a new lease of life — at any rate for the copyright.

Erewhon 2003