1 Its tone made him uneasy, and the more so because of the inconsistency between it and the hasty letter I had left for him.
2 The inconsistency and recklessness of Traddles were not to be exceeded by any real politician.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 38. A DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP 3 Frequently Rhett pointed out to Scarlett the inconsistency of her wearing black mourning clothes when she was participating in all social activities.
4 This was simple and clear, and yet, with cruel inconsistency, whenever he escaped from this nightmare it was to suffer and cry out at the vision of Ona starving.
5 She saw the indelicacy of putting himself forward as he had done, and the inconsistency of his professions with his conduct.
6 No man can like being driven into the appearance of such inconsistency.
7 He did nothing reluctantly, no matter how disagreeable; always at his post, never inconsistent.
8 For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come short.
9 But that man, so heedless of his words, did not once during the whole time of his activity utter one word inconsistent with the single aim toward which he moved throughout the whole war.
10 All the impossible orders inconsistent with the course of events remain unexecuted.
11 Then conscience granted a truce, and these curiously inconsistent pirates fell peacefully to sleep.
12 Meg stopped there, remembering all of a sudden that she hadn't made up her mind, that she had told 'her John' to go away, and that he might be overhearing her inconsistent remarks.
13 It occurred to me as inconsistent, that, for any mastering idea, he should have endangered his freedom, and even his life.
14 I think it neither out of place, nor inconsistent with what has been said above, to consider whether a free government existing in a corrupt city can be maintained, or, not existing, can be introduced.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII. 15 I'm interested in other people's experiences and inconsistencies, and though I can't explain, I remember and use them for my own benefit.