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Incompleteness

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Incompleteness
Incorruptibility (See HONESTY.)
Unfinished Symphony, The
Schubert’s eighth symphony of two movements instead of the customary four. [Ger. Music: Thompson]
Venus de Milo
classic sculpture, discovered in 1820 with arms missing. [Gk. Art: Brewer Dictionary]
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There is another young lady here, who is less abnormally developed than the one I have just described, but who yet bears the stamp of this peculiar combination of incompleteness and effeteness.
A Bundle of Letters by James, Henry View in context
How much of the incompleteness of his situation was referable to her father, through the painful anxiety to avoid reviving old associations of France in his mind, he did not discuss with himself.
A Tale Of Two Cities by Dickens, Charles View in context
In order to account for that wish I must mention-- what it were otherwise needless to refer to--that my life, on all collateral accounts insignificant, derives a possible importance from the incompleteness of labors which have extended through all its best years.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
 
 
 
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