New ideas and new 'experiments in living' would not arise, if there were not a certain inadequateness in existing ideas and ways of living.
"On Compromise"
John Morley
They may not point to the right mode of meeting inadequateness, but they do point to the existence and consciousness of it.
"On Compromise"
John Morley
Presently a strange sense of inadequateness came over him.
"The Cow Puncher"
Robert J. C. Stead