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Example sentences for "unsatisfying"

Lexicographically close words:
unsated; unsatisfactorily; unsatisfactoriness; unsatisfactory; unsatisfied; unsaturated; unsaved; unsavory; unsavoury; unsay
  1. His manner at the "Pen and Ink" was wholly unsatisfying to men who liked to talk.

  2. Once on a frosty day, pushed on by restless unsatisfying reflections, I sought a favourite haunt, a little wood not far distant from Salt Hill.

  3. They were oppressed with a painful sense of the empty and unsatisfying nature of every thing earthly; but they have found in Christ and his glorious service an all-sufficient portion.

  4. The sexual theory is unæsthetic and unsatisfying intellectually.

  5. The first question we must discuss is, whence do we deduce the justification for attributing to dreams any other significance than the one indicated in the unsatisfying fragmentary meaning of the manifest dream content?

  6. Is there any law of constant unsatisfying circuit in Him?

  7. We have stood by his side and tested with him the sad unsatisfying pleasures connected with the senses under the sun.

  8. It was, as always, a curiously unsatisfying atmosphere, this of the old Melrose house.

  9. While she brushed her hair, in the room that would shortly accommodate two of the three little nurses, she indulged in an unsatisfying dream in which she went to London with Alice--and that autocratic little Lady Donnyfare.

  10. A constant round of gaiety such as the older woman revelled in was quite unsatisfying to her daughter.

  11. All that is left us to fall back on is the old unsatisfying suggestions that some combinations may have greater viability than others, that there may be a tendency for like to mate with like, and so forth.

  12. All this is, as need hardly be said, an unsatisfying conclusion.

  13. I do not mean that it is unsatisfying because, with its mechanical determinism, it does not satisfy his desires.

  14. Fame at its utmost best,--and Theos sighed once or twice restlessly as he inwardly reflected how poor and unsatisfying were his own poetical powers, and how totally unfitted he was to cope with a rival so vastly his superior.

  15. World, with all the unsatisfying things it grudgingly offers, .

  16. To that familiar end he came by an unfamiliar route, after his long, unsatisfying examination of social reform movements and social and political theories.

  17. He has to try to reconceive God, and when he has done so, nothing but an unsatisfying abstraction is left.

  18. It is unsatisfying because even the greatest men of science, although they possess the intellects of giants, have still the hearts of children.

  19. More than these, it requires that you be willing to let go of old habits that have been unsatisfying or destructive and work to form new, more rewarding habits.

  20. For example, the therapist may prescribe that a couple or members of a family continue their present unsatisfying behavior.

  21. It is surely better to cope with a label applied in ignorance by some members of society, if this must be, than to live an unsatisfying and painful life.

  22. Pain is frequently what spurs us on from an unsatisfying and even destructive situation to a better future.

  23. Therapy then proceeds to transactional analysis proper, in which frustrating or painful forms of communication and unsatisfying life directions are discussed.

  24. If the therapy they enter is unsatisfying or downright distasteful to them, they will soon give it up.

  25. Past events need not control what you feel and do now; you are free to change old, unsatisfying patterns.

  26. All too often we continue to perpetuate, unknowingly, the same old unsatisfying patterns because we are trapped by our habits of blaming others or ourselves.

  27. Can a thing be sound and unsatisfying at the same time?

  28. Bodily movement alone, undertaken from a sense of duty or upon medical advice, is among the dreary and unsatisfying things of life.

  29. They are heavenly-minded, because they have first learned in the bitterness of their spirits how unsatisfying is earth.

  30. Could you but once experience the blessedness of being children of God, you would be surprised and ashamed that you have so long refused so precious a privilege, to possess instead, the unsatisfying pleasures of earth.

  31. Professor Decharme, rightly rejecting the fanciful interpretations of Quinet and others who allegorize Prometheus into humanity revolting against superstition, offers a very unsatisfying explanation of his own (p.

  32. Such a development, had it really occurred, might be said to represent a movement of primitive freethought from an unsatisfying monotheism to a polytheism that seemed better to explain natural facts.

  33. Thrice happy the souls who are by divine grace made sick of unsatisfying delights, and compelled to withdraw from unsatisfying objects, and seek and find permanent bliss in the friendship of Immanuel!

  34. So in the Grecian Urn he contrasts unsatisfying human life with art, which is everlastingly beautiful.

  35. Everything else in this world of Experience is either tributary to love or it is an unsatisfying substitute for love; or a counterfeit of love.

  36. Let us prize this more and more, while shadowy and unsatisfying forms and ceremonies prevail around us.

  37. All these are unavailing, unsatisfying to Him.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unsatisfying" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    defective; deficient; disappointing; disheartening; displeasing; empty; failing; imperfect; inadequate; incommensurate; incompetent; incomplete; insufficient; lacking; thin; unqualified; unsatisfactory; unsatisfying; wanting