How To Use Unsatisfying In A Sentence
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So it was a convoluted, unsatisfying way to go up.
Times, Sunday Times
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The patchworked results are watchable, particularly Wayne's more versatile than usual performance, but unsatisfying.
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Yet the question can be turned the other way: the pursuit of contextual meaning is as unsatisfying as that of textual purity.
The Times Literary Supplement
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She experimented with acrylics, found them unsatisfying, and returned to oils.
MISS MELVILLE REGRETS
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He had years of brief, unsatisfying relationships and even briefer flings to prove it.
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In truth, the revolution in military affairs debate remains unsatisfying.
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These intuitionist approaches, whether at the level of specific precepts or general principles, are not only theoretically unsatisfying, but are also quite unhelpful in practical matters.
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‘Bitten by the Tail Fly’ is probably the most unaccommodating track, its disjointed nature incorporating new wave and whispered poetry is an intriguing, but ultimately unsatisfying effort.
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Only the overly dense basil sauce, doused on basil linguine, and a creamy pea soup that's bizarrely addictive but oddly unsatisfying feel like miscalculated appetizers.
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Unlike in the movies, this commencement was long, boring and very unsatisfying.
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She then builds up a secondary inhibition to sexual arousal in order to avoid the frustration accompanying an unsatisfying sexual experience.
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So what it is that is so unsatisfying about modern pop records then?
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If this provision sounds unsatisfying, that is because it is.
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The philtres of romance are brewed to free us from this unsatisfying life that is calendared by fiscal years, and to contrive a less disastrous elusion of our own personalities than many seek dispersedly in drink and drugs and lust and fanaticism, and sometimes in death.
Beyond Life
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Jeunet, who returned to France after an unsatisfying Hollywood stint on Alien: Resurrection, felt nostalgic himself for a golden age of French cinema unbeholden to the American movie juggernaut.
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Yet, watching him in parliament during his weekly exchanges remains a deeply unsatisfying experience.
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Classic sexploitation and modern DV softcore features are really two different beasts entirely, and I doubt there is much crossover between fans of either, which makes this pairing of films more than a little unsatisfying.
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It's weak, it's thin, it's insipid and it's desperately unsatisfying.
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For the thousands of women who use wigs to cover their baldness, the options can be deeply unsatisfying.
Times, Sunday Times
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The end result is an unsatisfying film in which poverty, the exploitation of children and other social problems are just backdrops for a rather average tale about a street hustler and a television hostess.
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This leads me to a final criticism: This is a university press book seeking serious consideration, yet it has unsatisfyingly unorthodox notes in place of proper source references.
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It's a muddled and unsatisfying mix of both.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's weak, it's thin, it's insipid and it's desperately unsatisfying.
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The first time I put my knife and fork down was after my last mouthful, it was rushed, and totally unsatisfying.
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His earlier life of self-indulgence had been unsatisfying, as was his six-year experiment with ascetic penances.
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Mick, Aston, and Davies may briefly fascinate through weirdness, permutations, and illogic, but their basic, unsatisfying incredibility does not end up standing for much.
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Rose says so far the marriage has been unsatisfying.
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Posterior Analytics II. 19 is difficult to interpret, and recent philosophers have often found it unsatisfying since (as often construed) it appears to commit Aristotle to a form of apriorism or rationalism both indefensible in itself and not consonant with his own insistence on the indispensability of empirical inquiry in natural science.
Aristotle's Logic
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The intention was good, even if the result is unsatisfying.
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But there is still something unsatisfyingly vague in the claim that publication and reading practices ‘affected even the most empirical and technical of the mathematical sciences’.
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It's a muddled and unsatisfying mix of both.
Times, Sunday Times
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The cold, unsatisfying breakfast, and the half-hour assigned to "chevy," followed in due course, and after that Paul found himself set down with a class to await the German master, Herr Stohwasser.
Vice Versa or A Lesson to Fathers
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In the end, I found it kind of unsatisfying: less overhead control than simple fiction, less interactivity than roleplaying, less kinesis than film… paid well, but it never really clicked for me and I drifted away from the contract pool.
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Marston's movie leaves you with an unsatisfying feeling that the comparison has been coyly hinted at, but left unexplored.
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I've always felt - in no small measure because of this work - that Holst's story was left unsatisfyingly unfinished.
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Although I found it unsatisfying and lacking in credibility, the female friend with whom I watched it enjoyed it.
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And the story holds together fairly well, apart from the slightly abrupt and unsatisfying ending.
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He tried writing short stories, unsatisfyingly.
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This is in no way an unsatisfying conclusion, however, as, thanks to Penalva's skill at weaving words, the truth of the tale is in the telling.
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His earlier life of self-indulgence had been unsatisfying, as was his six-year experiment with ascetic penances.
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But, as with such crimes in real life, such an answer is deeply unsatisfying.
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It's a muddled and unsatisfying mix of both.
Times, Sunday Times
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If the MC was this minding chappie – why all the dialogue? definitely start of a much bigger story, and I found it unsatisfying because it was so.
BEYOND THE GATE • by C.L. Holland
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The schoolroom was a desert, arid and unsatisfying; whereas the garden, the enclosed space which held stained cups of beauty and purple gold-eyed bells, that was
Austin and His Friends
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Tom finds work unsatisfying and exhausting.
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Taking notes at one of his interviews is unsatisfying.
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Drew could find no way to scoop something more out of the unsatisfying egg cup of information so far displayed.
DARE CALL IT TREASON
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The plot complications are tortuous, their resolutions unsatisfying and the characters thin.
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Rose says so far the marriage has been unsatisfying.
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They were all very fascinating, but ultimately unsatisfying.
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Once dawn came, she could awaken from an unsatisfying sleep, turn off the light, and feel the kind of physical and mental peace that comes after a fever has broken.
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For the thousands of women who use wigs to cover their baldness, the options can be deeply unsatisfying.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was extremely unsatisfying and while it didn't spoil the good parts of the movie leading up to it, it sure put a horrid taste in my mouth as I finished watching it.
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an insubstantial and unsatisfying meal
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A. the recently concluded campaign confirmed, presidential debates are wholly unsatisfying, yet their wellspring is the epic series of seven debates held in 1858 between A.raham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas, both candidates for the Senate from Illinois.
Leaders With Connections
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Since a lot of my servers are all on the same subnet, sometimes that can be unsatisfying.
Geekfindr: DNSstuff/IPtools : #comments
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It seeks to find a compromise in which the paper often comes out best, publishing a small correction or a letter, which people find unsatisfying.
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It's weak, it's thin, it's insipid and it's desperately unsatisfying.
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These intuitionist approaches, whether at the level of specific precepts or general principles, are not only theoretically unsatisfying, but are also quite unhelpful in practical matters.
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Line-ups, unpredictable travel paths, and a surfeit of available activities add up to an unplannable day, an unkeepable schedule, and an unsatisfying level of achievement by the end of the day.
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For liberals, such explanations are unsatisfyingly superficial.
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Rose says so far the marriage has been unsatisfying.
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An unsatisfying relationship with a boyfriend was exacerbated by the type of women with whom he consorted.
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This is unsatisfying in many respects, for, as should be clear at this point, we often need to nontrivially reason about theories which
Impossible Worlds
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If there is anything unsatisfying about favas, it is this -- the beans have a tough outer carapace that needs to be peeled before eating.
Ellen Kanner: Meatless Monday: Ful For Love
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And when humanitarians allow themselves to be used, he feels, the whole sorry business of humanitarian intervention - already morally unsatisfying in its littleness and lateness - becomes more degenerate still.
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Without agreed rules to play by, and strict sanctions against those who break them, sport would soon descend into unsatisfying anarchy.
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This is a brave, fascinating book, but strangely unsatisfying.
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It was petty but not unsatisfying, she was in total, cold, control.
THE SCAR
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But as stunning as some pieces were (more than one gallerygoer asked Duane Hanson's "Security Guard" for directions to the men's room), the ultrarealistic sculpture of a couple of artistic generations ago was always a little esthetically unsatisfying.
Arts Extra: Less Is Mueck
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In the end, Wilson's timidity makes the book unsatisfying; but at least there's the sound of debate in its pages.
