unadept

And thus for a time I was occupied by exploded systems, mingling, like an unadept, a thousand contradictory theories, and floundering desperately in a very slough of multifarious knowledge, guided by an ardent imagination and childish reasoning, till an accident again changed the current of my ideas.

Chapter 2 2010

There is only one entrance to be a patriot: be a POW in Vietnam, in a manner your enemy missile brings you down because you are an under-average, unadept pilot and you don't know how to use parachute so you break your leg and the enemy captures you on Oct. 26, 1967.

Breaking: McCain Campaign "Concedes" That Obama Is Patriotic 2009

And thus for a time I was occupied by exploded systems, mingling, like an unadept, a thousand contradictory theories and floundering desperately in a very slough of multifarious knowledge, guided by an ardent imagination and childish reasoning, till an accident again changed the current of my ideas.

Frankenstein 2003

And thus for a time I was occupied by exploded systems, mingling, like an unadept, a thousand contradictory theories and floundering desperately in a very slough of multifarious knowledge, guided by an ardent imagination and childish reasoning, till an accident again changed the current of my ideas.

Frankenstein Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 1824

And thus for a time I was occupied by exploded systems, mingling, like an unadept, a thousand contradictory theories and floundering desperately in a very slough of multifarious knowledge, guided by an ardent imagination and childish reasoning, till an accident again changed the current of my ideas.

Frankenstein 1818

Whatever are Guardiola's reasons (is homeboyism a word?) for promoting the gauche, unadept Busquets ahead of the unarguably world-class Toure, the former tends to give the ball away in crucial areas (see Walcott's goal among quite a few other occasions this season) and is just not all that. "

The Guardian World News Rob Smyth 2010