The ill-informed masses included
The ill-informed masses included her own family among their ranks, a family that specialized in being both inconvenient and asinine. Gail Carriger
Inconvenient
What’s that?” she asked
What’s that?” she asked the girl, wrinkling her nose. “Oh, that? That’s just Pillover.” “And what’s a pillover, when it’s at home?” “My little brother.” “Ah, I commiserate. I have several of my own. Dashed inconvenient, brothers. Gail Carriger
Someone was trying to
Someone was trying to kill Lady Alexia Maccon. It was most inconvenient, as she was in a dreadful hurry. Given her previous familiarity with near-death experiences and their comparative frequency with regards to her good self, Alexia should probably have allowed extra time for such a predictable happenstance. Gail Carriger
The soul’s house is
The soul’s house is not built on such a convenient plan; there are few soundproof partitions in it. Only when the conviction – not merely the idea – that the demand of the Spirit, however inconvenient, rules the whole of it, will those objectionable noises die down which have a way of penetrating into the … Read more
The attributes for entrepreneurs
The attributes for entrepreneurs cut both ways. You need the ability to ignore inconvenient facts and see the world as it should be and not as it is. This inspires people to take huge leaps of faith. But this blindness to facts can be a liability, too. The characteristics that help entrepreneurs succeed can also … Read more
Ironically, tendency to ignore
Ironically, tendency to ignore inconvenient facts and unwelcome evidence is actually President Reagan’s true legacy, as I noted in ‘The Nation’ back in 2000, before the current right-wing mania for President Reagan gained its full force. Eric Alterman
You cannot demand truth,
You cannot demand truth, and then select half and throw the inconvenient remainder away. Ellis Peters
The financial services industry
The financial services industry has seemed to treat the crisis like a little rainfall – inconvenient, but no significant changes needed. The real question moving forward is how the industry will respond to Wall Street reform and growing public anger. Elizabeth Warren
Mythology is like gravity,
Mythology is like gravity, inconvenient at times, but necessary for cohesion. Elizabeth Janeway
Yet the arts of
Yet the arts of Severus cannot be justified by the most ample privileges of state reason. He promised only to betray; he flattered only to ruin; and however he might occasionally bind himself by oaths and treaties, his conscience, obsequious to his interest, always released him from the inconvenient obligation. Edward Gibbon