He was
incapable of considering how his actions might affect others or what the consequences of this or that action of his might be.
He is
incapable of arguing, and is bewildered by Socrates to such a degree that he does not know what he is saying.
By being 'present in a subject' I do not mean present as parts are present in a whole, but being
incapable of existence apart from the said subject.
She realised that my outburst of passion had been simply revenge, a fresh humiliation, and that to my earlier, almost causeless hatred was added now a personal hatred, born of envy....Though I do not maintain positively that she understood all this distinctly; but she certainly did fully understand that I was a despicable man, and what was worse,
incapable of loving her.
However gigantic and terrible an object this may appear when it approaches them, they are nevertheless
incapable of seeing it at any distance; nay, though they have been ever so much alarmed and frightened when they have apprehended themselves in danger of dying, they are no sooner cleared from this apprehension than even the fears of it are erased from their minds.
Still less could Levin say that he was a knave, as Sviazhsky was unmistakably an honest, good-hearted, sensible man, who worked good-humoredly, keenly, and perseveringly at his work; he was held in high honor by everyone about him, and certainly he had never consciously done, and was indeed
incapable of doing, anything base.
Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions,
incapable of their directed exercise,
incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away.
They were not only opinionative, peevish, covetous, morose, vain, talkative, but
incapable of friendship, and dead to all natural affection, which never descended below their grandchildren.
He did not belong with us, yet we were still so primitive ourselves that we were
incapable of a cooperative effort strong enough to kill him or cast him out.
At the enunciation of the aspirate, Fuddy-Duddy, the
incapable terrapin, came to a dead halt, and before the vowel had died away up the ravine had folded up all his eight legs and lain down in the dusty road, regardless of the effect upon his derned skin.
But if such an hypothesis be indeed exceptionable, there were still additional considerations which, though not so strictly according with the wildness of his ruling passion, yet were by no means
incapable of swaying him.
they deified the crocodile of the nile, because the crocodile is tongueless; and the Sperm Whale has no tongue, or as least it is so exceedingly small, as to be
incapable of protrusion.