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"No one's ever going to adapt it, because it's completely unadaptable. It's a crazy, sprawling, genre-hopping saga," he said.

(66) Citing Beard, the Wisconsin Supreme Court made the redefinition of masculinity explicit: The old doctrine of retreat to the wall "may have been all right in the days of chivalry, so called" but had become "unadaptable to our modern development." (67) Thus the courts began to recognize a new variant of American chivalry, one that understood male citizenship as each man to his own, untethered to civic service.

I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all-Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.

One year later, he was fired from the army, because he was considered "unadaptable" to the newly installed communist regime.

General shortcoming of existing protection relays is unadaptable settings during changing of operation conditions and changing of electric network parameters.

Effects of yokukansan on the abnormality of emotion and organs of mice induced by exposure to unadaptable stress

Unfortunately, the Los Angeles Unified School District seems to think its English-language learners are unadaptable. To boost their achievement, it plans to separate elementary school students who are not fluent in English from native English-speakers in all core classes.

Second, 'traditional' implies that Indigenous practices have been static and have not have evolved throughout the centuries prior to colonisation, highlighting the Eurocentric notion that Indigenous practices are essentially crude, simple, unadaptable and, in many cases, uniform across continents (Gilbert 2007:600).

The book ends with a section on "adaptable" versus "unadaptable" texts, focusing in particular on Joe Wright's Atonement (2007).

Little more than a month later, Lieutenant-General Frederick "Boy" Browning wrote an extremely critical letter of Sosabowski to Lieutenant-General Sir Ronald Weeks, deputy chief of the Imperial General Staff, accusing the Pole of being unadaptable, argumentative and "loath to play his full part in the operation unless everything was done for him and his Brigade," according to the British Public Record Office, 2nd Army Intelligence papers.

I see now that this has been a story of the West, after ad--Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were ad Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life."

The French Revolution is an example of the results of conflict between unadaptable 'chieftaincies' and the state government.

With complex modular systems, the conveyor is spec-ed out at the factory and is virtually unadaptable to new equipment.

PERHAPS Native Son has proven so hard to adapt successfully because, like Henry James's The Turn of the Screw, it is essentially unadaptable. As James did with his governess, Wright has poised Bigger on a razor's edge between victim and victimizer, sacrificial lamb and monster.

Written by Charlie Kaufman, this movie centers on a high-minded screenwriter named Charlie Kaufman, who's been commissioned to adapt an unadaptable book, called "Adaptation," into film.