As he had been to others, they were now to him: affectionate but clumsy and altogether inadequate in the presence of the common nightmare, a career's end.

They had never impressed me as being very strong, and I hoped to find my bar of iron not altogether inadequate for the work.

Mexican Government efforts to cushion the blow for those who do not export have been altogether inadequate.

Ms. Monte, encumbered by a technically archaic and altogether inadequate, restrictive theater in Madison, unblocked it, presumably for the first time.

The tomb is a quaint edifice of the 18th century, altogether inadequate to the grandeur of its purpose.

Under these conditions, optics were altogether inadequate, yet he saw, however partially and blurrily, he felt, he defied.

The Dull are persons of altogether inadequate imagination, the people who never seem to learn thoroughly, or hear distinctly, or think clearly.

What we have achieved is creditable, but the current commitments and the new initiatives are altogether inadequate when set against the Lisbon objectives.

Scraps of food were thrown to them from the galleries; these were speedily devoured, but were altogether inadequate in quantity to meet the demand.

Hiley and Talbot did not sign the majority report, noting that its "suggestion merely for some kind of coordination of services through the machinery of an advisory committee seems to us altogether inadequate".