Adjective : inconclusive evidence. ,inconclusive experiments. From Dictionary.com.
Both sides of the dispute noted the inconclusiveness of the decision. From Wordnik.com. [Supreme Court overturns objection to cross on public land] Reference
As for Nolan's inconclusiveness versus murkiness: perhaps it is an invisibly fine line. From Wordnik.com. [On Violence and Restraint in The Dark Knight] Reference
Otherwise, we will have to learn to live with the broken pieces either a defeat or inconclusiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Feeling Safer?] Reference
Despite its inconclusiveness the Hippias Major reflects the view of beauty found in Plato's other dialogues. From Wordnik.com. [Plato's Aesthetics] Reference
The infelicity and entire inconclusiveness of the definition he has vouchsafed us can hardly have any other effect. From Wordnik.com. [Life: Its True Genesis] Reference
Not for its own sake, but because inconclusiveness suggest other moods and world views that tidy plots simply cannot. From Wordnik.com. [What the hell is a literary thriller, anyway?] Reference
PR would mean that this disappointing inconclusiveness, this national post-electoral dithering and huddling, becomes the norm. From Wordnik.com. [Azeem Ibrahim: Proportional Representation Is Like a Box of Chocolates : You Never Know What You're Going to Get] Reference
Exposing the inconsistencies and inconclusiveness arising from your dislike for the application of general principles is not a game. From Wordnik.com. [Your Zip Code or Yourself, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
This was disappointing news, but the inconclusiveness did place the lampshade in a unique, and possibly illuminating, existential position. From Wordnik.com. [The Lampshade] Reference
Now I think too this attitude may have developed among our people because of the inconclusiveness of the various debates we had in the sixties. From Wordnik.com. [Some Comments After One Year's Contemplation] Reference
The inconclusiveness of Hissette's study strongly suggests that research into the proximate background of the censured propositions has to be broadened. From Wordnik.com. [Condemnation of 1277] Reference
But in spite of the shroud of deceit that surrounded the formal closure of the case of Spooky 10, the shame of the inconclusiveness was not allowed to overshadow Honor. From Wordnik.com. [Preston, James A.] Reference
Instead, I have chosen to present the facts below on behalf of these eight men so that the discrepancies, inconsistencies, and inconclusiveness may speak for themselves. From Wordnik.com. [Preston, James A.] Reference
His message has always been about inconclusiveness as a performer. From Wordnik.com. [Winnipeg Sun] Reference
Some exceptions, doubtless, there are to the inconclusiveness of this debate. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Reviews: The Education of the World, Bunsen's Biblical Researches, On the Study of the Evidences of Christianity; Seances Historiques de Gen��ve; On the Mosaic Cosmogony; Tendencies of Religious Thought in England, 1688-1750; On the Interpretation of Scripture.] Reference
March prompted, at a certain inconclusiveness in her tone rather than her words. From Wordnik.com. [Their Silver Wedding Journey — Complete] Reference
The hours he spent with Ruth were maddening alike in promise and in inconclusiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 20] Reference
What she read amazed her with its profundity and amused her with its inconclusiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Moor Fires] Reference
It is, of course, that very hardness and inconclusiveness that makes one turn to fiction. From Wordnik.com. [The Altar Fire] Reference
He had compelled them to weigh the proofs against him and recognise their hollowness and inconclusiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography] Reference
I have vainly tried to escape from it, I still suspect it of inconclusiveness, but I frankly confess that I am. From Wordnik.com. [Familiar Letters of William James I] Reference
The Civil War set at rest the political inconclusiveness of the Union, which had operated so harmfully for the South. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Cotton Mills in the South] Reference
However, tests are ongoing, with the inconclusiveness of the results meaning the Fat Duck is now closed for a third week. From Wordnik.com. [Latest hospitality news from CatererSearch] Reference
'Age of Reason,' he convinced thousands by his title-pages who were incapable of perceiving the inconclusiveness of his arguments. From Wordnik.com. [The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 2 of 2 From 1620-1816] Reference
I need not labour the inconclusiveness and weakness of this, because it has already been dealt with in my remarks on Mr. Bernard Shaw. From Wordnik.com. [Heretics] Reference
The fact that nearly everybody would accept the conclusion as true, might lead one to overlook the formal inconclusiveness of the proof. From Wordnik.com. [Logic Deductive and Inductive] Reference
But their talk had the wandering inconclusiveness which was inevitable, and the eyes of each from time to time furtively turned toward Hicks. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady of the Aroostook] Reference
The ingenuity of this address deserved all praise; but the beauty of the form was insufficient to disguise the inconclusiveness of the reasoning. From Wordnik.com. [The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3)] Reference
There was an overall inconclusiveness to the conference in that it didn't really provide/suggest any viable way forward or practical course of action. From Wordnik.com. [Indymedia Ireland] Reference
For a moment I entertain an illusion that really I am unworthy to hear the impalpable inconclusiveness of what he said to her and of what she said to him. From Wordnik.com. [A Modern Utopia] Reference
In the course of a year or two I delivered a presidential address, in which I pointed out the difficulties of the case and the inconclusiveness of the supposed facts gathered. From Wordnik.com. [The Reminiscences of an Astronomer] Reference
But, of course, there’s a devil in my head that loves inconclusiveness. From Wordnik.com. [What the hell is a literary thriller, anyway?] Reference
Most distressing, apparently, was the combination of continued casualties and the war’s inconclusiveness. From Wordnik.com. [How Wars end] Reference
But your willingness to accept such dizzying inconclusiveness will determine whether or not you’ll enjoy the movie. From Wordnik.com. [Lance Mannion:] Reference
A sense of inconclusiveness which showed in the parting inclination towards him; she kept the effect of this after he turned from her. From Wordnik.com. [A Pair of Patient Lovers] Reference
The whole Hillary Secretary of State sideshow of leaks was annoying in its inconclusiveness (which cased me to make. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
The inconclusiveness of such a kind of war!. From Wordnik.com. [Homage to Catalonia] Reference
"awkwardness," "lopsidedness," and "inconclusiveness" that marked the work of his generation. From Wordnik.com. ['At the Far End of this Ongoing Enterprise...'] Reference
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