Adequate

Examples

• The ordinary course of action fails to give adequate stimulus to emotion and imagination. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• There does not exist the man in England with adequate presumption. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I feel I have adequate cause to be happy, and I _will_ be happy. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The development of an adequate underground conduit proved also most serious. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• There can be only one adequate reason. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• The direct actionists are a warning to the Socialist Party that its tactics and its program are not adequate to domesticating the deepest unrest of labor. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Set going under adequate conditions they are magnets for gathering and retaining an indefinitely wide scope of intellectual considerations. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• His temptation is not adequate to the risk! Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• She was not so materially cast down, however, but that a little time and the return of Harriet were very adequate restoratives. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Yes, he said, that is the only adequate image of him. Plato. The Republic.
• Much of what adults do is so remote in space and in meaning that playful imitation is less and less adequate to reproduce its spirit. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Any other means of heating is far from adequate. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The terms were hardly adequate; she might have spoken in that way of a tea-party at the dear old Miss Lannings'. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Not organization but the kind of organization effected by adequate methods of tested discovery marks off science. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The y were too many and too varied to admit of adequate statement here. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• It was believed that by providing proper and adequate facilities for garaging electric pleasure vehicles the use of passenger-electrics in New York City would be greatly increased. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• In a search for something to replace them, it hit upon reason as the only adequate guide of belief and activity. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• But my purpose here is not to attempt any adequate description of the services of art. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• He was the born chemist, and it was only when he was asked to investigate the nature of the fire-damp that he fell to studying whether some adequate protection could not be afforded the miners. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The materials at present within my command hardly appeared adequate to so arduous an undertaking; but I doubted not that I should ultimately succeed. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• All day, as I drove upon my round, I turned over the case in my mind and found no explanation which appeared to me to be adequate. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• That social organization is presupposed in the adequate exercise of individual capacity is not to be doubted. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• They are nothing but generalizations, more or less adequate, of concrete goods. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Is language adequate to describe it? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Such homespun philosophies are genuine and often adequate. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• It was not written with the notion that these pages would contain an adequate exposition of modern political method. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The only adequate training for occupations is training through occupations. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.

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