Sewall proved unadaptable, for he was rather old to learn new tricks so far removed from the activities that were familiar to him; but Dow became a "cowhand" overnight.
"Roosevelt in the Bad Lands"
Hermann Hagedorn
Under the influence of the one and the other the ideal of a single world State, with a uniform or rigid system of laws resting upon a sovereign will, one and indivisible, dissolved, or at least entered upon dissolution, approving itself unadapted or unadaptable to the needs of a novel and immensely more complex situation of the world.
"The Unity of Civilization"
Various
And not only was he ill-informed-that was true of Mr. Lloyd George also-but his mind was slow and unadaptable.
"The Economic Consequences of the Peace"
John Maynard Keynes