Word: inexpertness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expressed its admiration for Stravinsky loudly after each composition, betrayed little inspiration in its playing. In addition, there were several sloppy entrances; solo playing especially was inferior to B.S.O. standards. However, some of this may be attributed to the difficulty of the scores, and Stravinsky's earnest but inexpert conducting...
Well, the "experts" don't look quite so good this week. The first phase of Valpey's work is an accomplished fact and a successful one. The supposedly inexpert and demoralized Crimson players turned in consistently exciting football, scored in every game, and wound up by getting up off the floor to whip Brown and Yale...
...matter of enjoyment as an involved, embarrassing account of the continuous trials & errors of an uncertain and mentally harried intellectual. The book carries Eastman from his unwanted birth ("a gloom in a minister's family") to the night when, already married and a father, but "still diffident and inexpert at the art of unfamiliar love," he found his dream girl...
...left their camps for Göteborg, 900 Canadians in a Stalag at Lamsdorf near Breslau still wore the chains with which they were shackled soon after Dieppe. One Canadian R.A.F. private said: "When the Nazis started to handcuff us the first time, we all lined up before twelve inexpert Nazis, doing twelve prisoners at a time. In the first dozen chained men there was an escape expert, a former London bobby, who quickly showed his companions how to remove the bracelets. They chucked them under a hut and rejoined the queue. The Nazis used up 800 cuffs...
...people in general were not experts on India. They could not judge the Indian issues either from first-hand experience or deep scholarship. They did not judge the issues from the standpoint of vested interests in India. But the British Government could ill afford to ignore their massed judgment, inexpert and instinctive as it might be. And, whatever the experts and officials and vested interests were saying last week, the British people were calling for Indian self-government, calling for it in such words as these: "We treat them like dirt and then expect them to fight...