Sentences with phrase «rather unsatisfactory»

Both the critique and the rebuttal are rather unsatisfactory.

This initialisation procedure is a rather unsatisfactory as it would be expected to cause a large climate drift during the experiment.

Then, McLaren decided to replace the car's top half with a stunning glass hatch ending in a panoramic roof, making sure to cook up an electrochroamatic version as well for those who found the 18 percent tint applied to the roof rather unsatisfactory in the desert.

The problem is the rest of it; the plodding story and the rest of its very weak script with cliched plot points and a rather unsatisfactory ending which unfortunately leaves you massively unfulfilled.

Events become more puzzling and rather unsatisfactory however, following the demise of Scott Thomas.

After a rather unsatisfactory draw against Spurs in the North London derby, Arsenal welcome Turkish giants Galatasaray to the Emirates for the next round of the Champions League group stages.

Its suggestion that our biosphere is merely so much waste matter and the human body, at best, a rather unsatisfactory ship in which the intellect has to sail, expresses an unrealistic, mindless exaltation of that intellect — narrowly conceived as searching for facts — and a corresponding contempt for natural feeling....

Also they will seem rather unsatisfactory, precisely because Whitehead found reason to reject them.

He also refuses to take up Hartshorne's defense of the ontological argument (on the rather unsatisfactory ground that «when denying the ontological argument, I always feel like a fool») although he recognizes that it «lies at the heart» of Hartshorne's understanding of these matters (p. 64).

Not exact matches

His conditions are seen as rather comfortable, albeit apart from other inmates, but he considers them unsatisfactory.

Thankfully, though it took a while to perfect my approach, the following 5 or 6 attempts only resulted in a trash can full of unsatisfactory baked goods rather than more kitchen disasters.

Claims by the Secretary of State for Wales that the current devolution settlement does not need major changes are misguided and could help to entrench an unsatisfactory system in place where the courts become the final arbiter of laws rather than the electorate, the Welsh Liberal Democrats Assembly Member, Peter Black has said.

It works better when it becomes a lifestyle, rather than a series of sporadic, desperate, panicky (and often unsatisfactory) attempts at wiping the years away.

Despite its attempts to construct itself as a crime drama and psychological thriller, rather than exploit a pontificating agenda to appeal a more balanced audience, Captive remains an unsatisfactory account of a notorious real - life event that made headlines around the world, owing to the phenomenal spiritual awakening of a cold - blooded murderer and rapist.

Many scenes seem to be under - lit, faces are in shadow, scenes are sometimes slightly out of focus all of which is rather distracting, and unsatisfactory.

Yet such is the power of the stunted fanboys and clickbait movie «journalists» fueling discussion of popular cinema in 2015: a depressing forum in which a perceived unsatisfactory Marvel film must be analyzed like the coming of the cultural holocaust, rather than simply being ignored for the unremarkable — and completely familiar — corporate bowel movement that it is.

They must have four grade levels rather than a simple satisfactory / unsatisfactory, for example.

[3] To further increase the utility and validity of evaluation systems, states should require that evaluation instruments differentiate among various levels of teacher performance rather than only giving binary satisfactory / unsatisfactory ratings.

Federal requirements include the use of multiple categories of teacher ratings, rather than just «satisfactory» or «unsatisfactory,» based on multiple observations, feedback, and the use of student test scores to assess effectiveness.

The inaugural playthrough, Route A, focuses on the moment to moment conflict between 2B / 9S and the machine lifeforms, with its ending feeling rather anticlimactic and unsatisfactory.

It always feels as if there's something slightly unsatisfactory about a shift in artistic practice that's described in terms of something that has preceded it, rather than in terms of whatever new thing it might represent — postimpressionist, postmodern, post-Internet.

Levicom claimed that it had relied upon Linklaters» early advice, bringing arbitration proceedings shortly afterwards which were subsequently settled on unsatisfactory terms three years later, after having obtained (rather more pessimistic) advice from leading counsel.