But how inadequate this explanation was!

Jani knew how inadequate the explanation sounded, but Tsecha had given her little more to go on.

But that seems inadequate explanation for the curious process by which travel serves to stimulate my imagination.

I'm just going to take the girls to school,' she said by way of rather inadequate explanation.

Even to her, it sounded like a woefully inadequate explanation, but how could she explain?

This is an inadequate explanation, however, since the young adolescents in question are invariably male.

The problem with Clinton's policy is not its aims but his desultory or inadequate explanation of its potential and perils.

Instead it was a collection of conditionally 'adequate' or 'inadequate' explanations.

But these relatively technical matters provide an entirely inadequate explanation for what has happened.

In a book this size, furthermore, there are bound to be mistakes and inadequate explanations.