What is "unpreparedness"

Usage examples of "unpreparedness".

And against this pitiable state of disarmament and unpreparedness was brought a force of a hundred thousand well armed, seasoned warriors with engines of destruction that were unknown to Earth Men.

After demonstrating the ironic effects of unpreparedness in section 1, DeLillo increases the irony in section 2 by having Jack observe people who not only are prepared for disaster but seem to welcome it.

Considering their unpreparedness for such an ordeal and the complete surprise by which they were taken they did better than was realized at the time.

They clung together at least on the common ground of unpreparedness, and Maisie watched without relief the havoc of wonder in Mrs.

All of it: the cancer that had grown in his world, the unpreparedness, the ungodliness of St.

He had to somehow show them their own unpreparedness, their own weakness.

She would die as Pireth Tulme died, she realized, again silently cursing the unpreparedness, the slovenly men and women to whom she had been forced to entrust her life.

The unpreparedness on the part of the Marines was completely his fault.

Pireth Tulme died, she realized, again silently cursing the unpreparedness, the slovenly men and women to whom she had been forced to entrust her life.

He had not protested the bad training, the immaturity of the troops, the vague guidelines of conduct, or his own unpreparedness as a combat infantry leader.

Germans to stand fast, ghastly pictures of the weakness and unpreparedness of the Russian army, in a word Russian rottenness and corruption.

Before the war German newspapers abounded in reports of French unpreparedness and chaos.

Perhaps because she was unencumbered by petticoat or buttoned bodice or long overskirt tied back at the sides or buckle shoes with light cotton stockings, in short because she was not dressed as I was, even in my unpreparedness for the street, she was at my side in a few jerky moves before I was even five steps closer to the door.

Away from home, liberated from my responsibility for meals, my unexecuted calculations steal into my dreams like engine run-on and leave me blithering with this diminished store of nurture and the fact of my unpreparedness.