Word: inept
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Unfortunate Delay. Whatever the Soviet motives, the West Germans' inept handling of the election plans probably tempted the Russians to fasten on to that particular issue. Despite vague Communist warnings, the West Germans decided last December to go ahead with presidential selection in Berlin. But then the West Germans unfortunately failed to send out the formal summonses that would have made the decision final. The delay apparently led the Communists to believe that the West Germans could still be badgered out of holding the elections in Berlin...
Allan Felix's problem in the play is that no one seems to love him. His wife has just left him. He is too inept to cook even a frozen TV dinner, though he does relish licking it. His best friend (Anthony Roberts) and his best friend's wife (Diane Keaton) round up several miniskirted cuties for him, but nothing happens. Even in his fantasies, girls reject...
...other students wish to attend with me. I suspect they had two reasons for staying away: (a) the speakers were sometimes appallingly inept; (b) the debates were published verbatim afterwards for anyone, in or out of the university, to read...
When the play was first presented on Broadway in 1967, it was given an inept production that erred fatally by trying to be realistic. Caricatures cannot be played as people, and the jokes seemed to expire rather than explode...
Such were the romantic subjects chosen by Albert Pinkham Ryder (1847-1917), the most eccentric, least prolific, most technically inept but arguably the most interesting U.S. painter of his time. While most of his contemporaries carried on with grandiose elaborations of the Hudson River School, Ryder strove to distill the simple and essential. Later, while the impressionists were turning everybody's eyes toward the light, Ryder studied structure. Later still, when other U.S. painters were studying ashcans and backyard realism, he stubbornly continued to dream of symbols and eternal truths...