They spend their money and labour for these uncertain unsatisfying things. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)] Reference
Such series tend to end in unsatisfying ways, mostly because their authors got tired of them. From Wordnik.com. [Reflective Surface - Book series] Reference
And now is the question asked, Why is this world unsatisfying?. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series] Reference
To Janet, his too ready acceptance was peculiarly unsatisfying. From Wordnik.com. [The Wrong Woman] Reference
For myself, whole subject very unsatisfactory and unsatisfying. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Endurance] Reference
In this ambitious but ultimately unsatisfying film, he's the top. From Wordnik.com. [HOT & COLE] Reference
He has sounded the depths of rural existence and found it unsatisfying. From Wordnik.com. [Society Its Origin and Development] Reference
At this point we are witnessing the beginning of a slow, unsatisfying end. From Wordnik.com. [Brothers in Arms] Reference
But I could only think how unsatisfying it would be, not to be able to touch her. From Wordnik.com. [Magic X] Reference
It is a shrewd policy but it will prove deeply unsatisfying to many conservatives. From Wordnik.com. [Tough Guys Can Say 'I'm Sorry'] Reference
The bad news is that recovery, though boosting employment, may prove unsatisfying. From Wordnik.com. [A Darker Future For Us] Reference
Left to himself he worked with unabated ardor, but his work soon grew unsatisfying. From Wordnik.com. [At the Time Appointed] Reference
The fruit of her labor was in her hands, but it was vapid, tasteless, unsatisfying. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
Abstract impressionism is fine as far as it goes, but here it's simply unsatisfying. From Wordnik.com. [Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Takers] Reference
A discovery that something upon which you had set your heart proves unsatisfying. From Wordnik.com. [Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves] Reference
The '90s case is lit up with fun attorney acrobatics, but ends in an unsatisfying muddle. From Wordnik.com. [Turow's Latest Gets A Hung Jury] Reference
Thark's arguments were plausible, at least on the surface, but she found them unsatisfying. From Wordnik.com. [A Matter of Honor A Terran Empire novel] Reference
Regarded as a work postulating a new spiritual point of view, it was vague and unsatisfying. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman] Reference
The second truth conveyed to us in this parable is the unsatisfying nature of worldly happiness. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series] Reference
(Soundbite of laughter) ROBERTS: Well, why is it unsatisfying to you to not have ideas behind a dance?. From Wordnik.com. [Lincoln's Legacy Celebrated In Dance] Reference
But the data are equally unsatisfying: instantaneous and relentless, but not comprehensive or insightful. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas Shopping, Bah Humbug] Reference
So far, State says it has received "conflicting, unsatisfying responses" about what happened to the reports. From Wordnik.com. [Why So Slow?] Reference
Without thinking through your "why," you can easily take six months off and end up back in the same unsatisfying place. From Wordnik.com. [How To Take A Sabbatical From Work] Reference
Regardless of what unsatisfying car you buy, it can still be compared to even worse models that other people are driving. From Wordnik.com. [Todd Kashdan: Why Are We Afraid of Having Regrets?] Reference
A song played on tuning forks instead of on strings would be lifeless and unsatisfying because of the absence of overtones. From Wordnik.com. [General Science] Reference
Somehow, of late, the compliments which fell so readily from those graceful lips had brought with them an unsatisfying pain. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859] Reference
The love she had hitherto known had been unsatisfying, too impersonal, too restrained, too interwoven with mystical devotion. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow of the East] Reference
It was an unsatisfying life; and when rash acquaintances asked him what he did he used to say that he was reading for the Bar. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 3, 1914] Reference
And the truth is the motion capture in "Beowulf" comes across as an unsatisfying compromise between animation and live action. From Wordnik.com. [Here There Be Monsters] Reference
Maybe you won't drop out of school, work a galaxy of unsatisfying odd jobs, finally settling on that of a short story narrator. From Wordnik.com. [A Pair of Allowances] Reference
The sort of companionship that pleased his careless youth had latterly proved unsatisfying, and to some extent distasteful to him. From Wordnik.com. [Australian Writers] Reference
In each case, there is something deeply unsatisfying about how the market handles the destructive behavior of powerful economic actors. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Engler: The Gulf at the Gas Station: Can We Calculate the True Cost of Our Dependence on Oil?] Reference
Then he had ceased to come and his letters, grown short and few, full of vague promises -- unsatisfying -- meagre, had stopped abruptly. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow of the East] Reference
Even though a nightcap may help you relax and fall asleep faster, it'll make the second half of your sleep cycle restless and unsatisfying. From Wordnik.com. [7 Steps To The Best Sleep Ever] Reference
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