incompleteness
IPA: ɪnkʌmpɫˈitnʌs
noun
- The state or condition of being not complete.
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Examples of "incompleteness" in Sentences
- For them a theory's uncertainty or incompleteness is not a failing but a positive and creative condition in its own right.
- Italian sculpture on lowness of relief, by an incompleteness, which is surely not always undesigned, and which I suppose no one regrets, and trusts to the spectator to complete the half-emergent form.
- Mangold: I think I have a thing about the idea of incompleteness; that there's almost a kind of longing in the work for completeness, for a kind of impossible resolution since you're always given only certain amounts of information.
- Their anatomical incorrectness --- incompleteness is more like it --- would seem to be a problem, but they are drawn together by a mutual fetishistic love of fashion and trying on outfits for each other is their version of sex, which makes the interrogation scene very kinky.
- But perhaps that's appropriate - the chapter emphasizes the notion of incompleteness, that Lost involves an arc that we assume to be aiming for a goal, but it has not arrived there yet, and that in itself illustrates nicely many of the issues of communication and meaning raised in this chapter.
- In the end, though, such a feeling of incompleteness is easy to reconcile with the record, which, after all, comprises a series of musical fragments that fade in and out seemingly at random, as if you are coming into and out of ’scenes’ that have already started and that will continue on after you leave.
- As I have already pointed out, he secures that ideality of expression which in Greek sculpture depends on a delicate system of abstraction, and in early Italian sculpture on lowness of relief, by an incompleteness, which is surely not always undesigned, and which, as I think, no one regrets, and trusts to the spectator to complete the half - emergent form.
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