What is "inconsistency"

Usage examples of "inconsistency".

It has been truthfully said of him in proof of his inconsistency, that he was a free thinker at London, a Cartesian at Versailles, a Christian at Nancy, and an infidel at Berlin.

Though he directs the magistrates to punish such persons as are legally convicted, he prohibits them, with a very humane inconsistency, from making any inquiries concerning the supposed criminals.

Having attained a mood of philosophic calm, in which he was prepared to spend his evenings alone -- as became a grub -- and to await with dignified patience the return of his wife, it was in the nature of an inconsistency that he should have walked the floor of the dull little drawing-room like a lion in cage.

One hung on a cross and died of physical weakness some hours before the two felons who were his hardier fellow sufferers, leaving a teaching compounded of such sweet and fine ideas of conduct, such mystical incomprehensibleness, such misleading inconsistency, that it remained a moral stimulus and an intellectual perplexity, a jungle for heresies and discoveries, for millions of souls for two millennia.

Their intensely cherished preconceptions respecting the Messiah, their persecution and crucifixion of Jesus, the glaring inconsistency of his teachings and experience with most that they expected, these things compelled their incredulity to every proof of the Messiahship of the contemned and murdered Nazarene.

I explained that I had been studying clippings about Poe and had noticed important inconsistencies.

Although he has become a philosophical moderate, Usbek is a despotic figure in the context of the harem, in part because he is caught in a cultural institution in which he no longer believes, and in part because power magnifies the inconsistencies of human nature.

Despite the numerous inconsistencies and flat-out errors in his statement, Gitchell and his detectives decided not to put it to the simple test of questioning Jessie at the site while someone videotaped the excursion.

The trouble is, not everyone wants to play this game—to have his theoretical inconsistencies pointed out to him and to be left with the feeling of being anchorless.

Lax urged Damien’s and Jason’s attorneys to press Hutcheson about her past and about her own inconsistencies, especially with regard to her reports of the esbat.

He frowned over the more obvious inconsistencies put forward by mother and son, but seemed struck to consternation when I said, 'Didn't you tell me that the bookmaking firm of Arthur Robins, established 1894, was now owned and run by people named Webber, Brown… and Verity?

All scenarios had inconsistencies, brick walls where you expected an Underground station to be.

She did acknowledge the German computer expert when she suggested a media appeal throughout the six countries in which the bodies had been found, after the death-mask pictures Rosetti had obtained were compared with Volker's digitalized images to eradicate any visual inconsistencies.

Note: Yet Augustine, with laudable inconsistency, disapproved of the forcible demolition of the temples.

There had been a landing on Entropium, and then a chaotic journey among the planets through space that contained no laws, only a turbulent inconsistency.