The study was criticized for incompleteness of data but it stimulated further research. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
For them a theory's uncertainty or incompleteness is not a failing but a positive and creative condition in its own right. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-08-01] Reference
Videogames in general, and - by extension - serious, humane, or socially conscious games in particular, are complete in and by their "incompleteness". From Wordnik.com. [SWEATblog: Incompleteness] Reference
Here, for the first time, at any rate, I am impressed by that sense of rawness and incompleteness which is said to be characteristic of America. From Wordnik.com. [America To-day, Observations and Reflections] Reference
If women have a condition called incompleteness, and some recover nicely and some don’t, then these paintings were flaunting it, loving it, shoving it in your face. From Wordnik.com. [Underworld] Reference
Is not this the lesson of life -- this incompleteness?. From Wordnik.com. [Browning's Heroines] Reference
It is most complete by reason of its very incompleteness. From Wordnik.com. [With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back] Reference
At last a feeling of incompleteness penetrated her languor. From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
His imagination partook of the incompleteness of his intellect. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867] Reference
Here we pause, fully conscious of the incompleteness of our task. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Priest's Keepsake] Reference
That sense of incompleteness makes the theme unbearably poignant. From Wordnik.com. [Alan Elsner: Chopin's Endless Fascination -- Between Heaven and Earth] Reference
It is not with its content but its incompleteness that we quarrel. From Wordnik.com. [Preaching and Paganism] Reference
The incompleteness of the result is confessed in the Epitome of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference
We believe Mr. Bezzi is in error as to the incompleteness of Mr. Wilde's. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, August 1850 of Literature, Science and Art.] Reference
But there was withal a vague feeling of incompleteness, an unsatisfied longing. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873] Reference
The black mood slipped from him, and with it the sense of need and incompleteness. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker] Reference
This is owing to the fact that, as illustrated above, a negation implies incompleteness. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario High School Reader] Reference
If the ideal is not reached by the effort it will be known by the sense of incompleteness. From Wordnik.com. [Expressive Voice Culture, Including the Emerson System] Reference
Pleading and entreaty also convey a sense of incompleteness and take the rising inflection. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario High School Reader] Reference
"Yes, it is dissatisfaction, an incompleteness, as though she had not found what she sought.". From Wordnik.com. [The Right Knock A Story] Reference
"No", implies incompleteness in the mind of the questioner and requires a decided rising inflection. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario High School Reader] Reference
Riviglio's views, though, from the incompleteness of the experiments, further trials were recommended. From Wordnik.com. [Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure] Reference
Show by examples from this selection how completeness and incompleteness of thought affect the Inflection. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario High School Reader] Reference
She had found an object in life, had splendidly emerged from her old sensations of incompleteness and inferiority. From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
It is with a depressing sense of the incompleteness of these lessons in life, that I now indite their closing paragraph. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
For him and her there was no more tempest, no more restless craving or peril, all had passed with the old incompleteness. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker] Reference
This sense of incompleteness is an argument in favor of its possible satisfaction; our need is an argument for its fulfilment. From Wordnik.com. [Friendship] Reference
Yet it is not without incompleteness of expression; it smacks of immaturity still; but it is the immaturity which presages a man. From Wordnik.com. [The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2] Reference
"Yes" or "No," do not convey an idea of incompleteness, being merely equivalent to the statement of a desire for certain information. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario High School Reader] Reference
Your sense of incompleteness is directly related to how much fear and anxiety you have, since anxiety fragments your brain's functioning. From Wordnik.com. [Srinivasan Pillay: The Moral Brain: 5 Tips for Transcending Moral Dilemmas] Reference
As it is, so many things are fleeting through me in incompleteness, in mere suggestion and so simultaneously at that, that I am bewildered. From Wordnik.com. [Nelka Mrs. Helen de Smirnoff Moukhanoff, 1878-1963, a Biographical Sketch] Reference
It is this incompleteness, this comparative untruth, that gives rise to the dissatisfaction we feel in the last analysis of French character. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860] Reference
He was suddenly conscious of a sense of incompleteness, of some detail left out that should be there -- a want he could not measure or define. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker] Reference
The choice of instruments was a matter of small importance to a man of his nature, the incompleteness of whose education had left him scarcely half-civilized. From Wordnik.com. [French and Oriental Love in a Harem] Reference
There was nothing poor or mean or artistically bad, but the whole gave an impression of life yet to be lived, an incompleteness that was baffling in its obscurity. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker] Reference
Stereotyping is an unfortunate invention, when it tends to perpetuate error or incompleteness, and already the Appendix of added words in Webster amounts to eighty pages. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860] Reference
If he was incomplete, so too was she; and her incompleteness was of the kind that, in this relation, never fails to fail -- his, of the kind that more often than not succeeds. From Wordnik.com. [Browning's Heroines] Reference
Before the written page is printed some startling application is likely to be made that gives to that page at once an incompleteness it is impossible to guard against or avoid. From Wordnik.com. [Steam, Steel and Electricity] Reference
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