unsatisfying

But as a model of economic fairness, or of the role of universities in social mobility, it is unsatisfying.

When Diversity Fails the Poor

Jedediah Purdy

September 28, 2014

Poverty, violence, near fatal cancer, his punishing and unsatisfying ride through the justice system.

Gavin Arvizo’s New Beginning: Jackson Abuse Accuser Gets Married at 24

Diane Dimond

December 9, 2013

And yet, ultimately the book is unsatisfying, because the mystery remains unexpectedly unsolved.

Will These Men Ever Come Home? The Search for Missing WWII Pilots in “Vanished”

Jordan Michael Smith

November 14, 2013

But this has left our public discourse empty and unsatisfying.

Q & A with Michael Sandel: From Market Economy to Market Society

Michael Tomasky

July 3, 2012

Any girl (or guy)—at a bar, on the subway, at the office, a pro—offers a quick yet unsatisfying release for him.

Carey Mulligan's Naked Turn in 'Shame'

Lorenza Muñoz

November 30, 2011

The air at that altitude is thin and, to the one not accustomed to it, most unsatisfying.

Yet all this was cold and unsatisfying, a poor substitute for the other things.

"I couldn't say, sir," is the civil but unsatisfying reply with which research is met.

The fruit of her labor was in her hands, but it was vapid, tasteless, unsatisfying.

He has sounded the depths of rural existence and found it unsatisfying.