The two statements "the hall is full of water" and "the hole is full of water" call for different responses, and a hearing which cannot distinguish between them is
inaccurate or vague in this respect.
"Ingenious, my dear Gerald, but
inaccurate. You do not know that the message was in code, and in any case it was liable to be picked up by any steamer within the circle.
* This is a simplistic and
inaccurate picture of religious teachings.
Also, they were
inaccurate; they did not sting with precision.
Nor are instances of this kind so rare as some superficial and
inaccurate observers have reported.
But come, suppose that I had the power of passing through solid things, so that I could penetrate my subjects, one after another, even to the number of a billion, verifying the size and distance of each by the sense of FEELING: how much time and energy would be wasted in this clumsy and
inaccurate method!
Hence it must happen that however accurately objects may be discriminated in themselves, and however accurately the discrimination may be considered, the definition of them may be rendered
inaccurate by the inaccuracy of the terms in which it is delivered.
About half past four I went up to the railway station to get an evening paper, for the morning papers had contained only a very
inaccurate description of the killing of Stent, Henderson, Ogilvy, and the others.
The reason is that the original statement was
inaccurate, for the wing is not said to be relative to the bird qua bird, since many creatures besides birds have wings, but qua winged creature.
We had a long and uninteresting search for Caprona, for the old map upon which the assistant secretary had finally located it was most
inaccurate. When its grim walls finally rose out of the ocean's mists before us, we were so far south that it was a question as to whether we were in the South Pacific or the Antarctic.
And you replied that such an exposition would be enough for you, and so the enquiry was continued in what to me seemed to be a very
inaccurate manner; whether you were satisfied or not, it is for you to say.
Professor Beecher had nothing to do with that, nor had he with the taking of the map, as has been seen, the loss of which, after all, was a blessing in disguise, for Kurzon would never have been located by following the directions given there, as it was very
inaccurate.