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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But, as with such crimes in real life, such an answer is deeply unsatisfying. |
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The plot complications are tortuous, their resolutions unsatisfying and the characters thin. |
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Unlike in the movies, this commencement was long, boring and very 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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He had years of brief, unsatisfying relationships and even briefer flings to prove it. |
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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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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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And the story holds together fairly well, apart from the slightly abrupt and unsatisfying ending. |
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While immediately unsatisfying, his constitutional amendments could make a significant impact on Egyptian politics in the middle to long term. |
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The entire film is reduced to an unsatisfying gimmick, and one is left somewhere between perplexity and infuriation. |
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The patchworked results are watchable, particularly Wayne's more versatile than usual performance, but unsatisfying. |
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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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An unsatisfying relationship with a boyfriend was exacerbated by the type of women with whom he consorted. |
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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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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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Yet, watching him in parliament during his weekly exchanges remains a deeply unsatisfying experience. |
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Atlanta's two-time Cy Young winner has been the backbone of the Braves' lengthy but ultimately unsatisfying dynasty. |
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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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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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Abstract painting was unsatisfying, flat, barren, describable only in terms of itself. |
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There is a general belief that much of the venture into drug-taking among young people stems from unsatisfying family life. |
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The handling of claims remains an unsatisfying moment of truth for customers. |
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But the end result, for all the excellent detective work and atmospherics, is a touch unsatisfying. |
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So this is back to the unsatisfying simple explanations or our inability to do an experiment. |
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Recall that ruminators often sought out and benefited from social support, but often found the support was unsatisfying or limited. |
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A sudden end to children's involvement in this way was for some a bewildering and unsatisfying experience. |
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The Supreme Court offers some answers to both these criticisms but the result is something of an unsatisfying saw off. |
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Poor location, design, policies and restrictions can make visits deeply unsatisfying for all concerned. |
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While unsatisfying, these global estimates are probably the best that can be made based on very patchy data. |
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TheIndian Claims Commission's efforts to address specific claims is so slow and unsatisfying that hope for settlement has almost evaporated. |
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This is, of course, deeply morally unsatisfying, and it raises real questions about moral hazard. |
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They were all very fascinating, but ultimately unsatisfying. |
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If this provision sounds unsatisfying, that is because it is. |
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So what it is that is so unsatisfying about modern pop records then? |
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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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This is a brave, fascinating book, but strangely unsatisfying. |
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Strip clubs, peep shows and lap dancing all sound pretty unsatisfying. |
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In that sense, the last Report was mildly unsatisfying as a conclusion, in that it left so much unresolved. |
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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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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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But as a model of economic fairness, or of the role of universities in social mobility, it is unsatisfying. |
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It's weak, it's thin, it's insipid and it's desperately unsatisfying. |
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Poverty, violence, near fatal cancer, his punishing and unsatisfying ride through the justice system. |
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And yet, ultimately the book is unsatisfying, because the mystery remains unexpectedly unsolved. |
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No doubt an unsatisfying response, but only if we ourselves were not convinced of the necessity of tackling these topics in depth in the dossiers and studies that will follow. |
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It also looks that a few unsatisfying results for financial indicators have increased fear that global economies may not recover as soon as expected, which will likely weaken demand for oil. |
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While we recognize our performance was good relative to the global market, absolute performance remains unsatisfying to us over the last few years. |
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He credits GamerGaters with organizing a revolt against a deeply unsatisfying marketplace by loyal consumers who deserve better. |
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One obvious yet unsatisfying solution is simply to stay covered up. |
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Philosophy proved to be unsatisfying, offering assurance about the use of reason but none about loving God, which to Luther was more important. |
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It must be an unsatisfying and soul destroying experience to be members of the government now and to be seen as little more than potted plants, not listened to or respected by the Prime Minister. |
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But this has left our public discourse empty and unsatisfying. |
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Handed this small morsel of earnest plot and half a dozen paper-thin characters, the director, Joe Grifasi, tries gamely to make a meal, but the fare he serves is flavorless and unsatisfying. |
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It's obvious, when you lay it out, but also unsatisfying. |
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In the next section, you'll be asked to identify what you find satisfying and unsatisfying about your work and your expectations regarding your work situation. |
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While there is a widespread belief that employment opportunities are available for everyone, there remain significant groups whose access to quality jobs is unsatisfying. |
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Despite continuing efforts of Commerce and the courts to explain and clarify this issue, however, the standards for finding de facto specificity remain underdeveloped, opaque, contradictory, elusive, and unsatisfying. |
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The level of service given to visitors also varies in quality and their occasionally unsatisfying experiences could have a negative affect on the image of the marine park and the existing tourism industry. |
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The problem with an immersive company like Punchdrunk is that people tend to take fixed attitudes: either they are a signpost to the theatrical future or they take one on a footslogging journey through unsatisfying fragments. |
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The unsatisfying figures from yesterday's U. S. data seems to have contributed to investors' worries that a halt in the economic recovery will continue strengthening the greenback going into next week's trading. |
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There just is something about that relationship with third-party validators that is structurally unsatisfying from the point of view of government. |
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The estimate was that another 169,000 people have joined the unemployment circle in the U. S. The unsatisfying figures continued to weaken the Dollar. |
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After 10 years in an unsatisfying job she overcame her inertia and went back to school. |
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An unwillingness to stay with discomfort of change can itself be an attractor that pulls students into precipitous, frequently unsatisfying, decisions. |
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