If that feels unsatisfying, it's because it should feel unsatisfying.
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Even though that would be narratively unsatisfying, death is often unsatisfying in real life.
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This is why Obama's town hall on race felt so unsatisfying: His administration feels like he needs to be unsatisfying.
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But there's one thing that's been bugging me about the series, and I wonder if it would have made the show's intentionally unsatisfying ending feel more satisfyingly unsatisfying.
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It's just not exciting reality TV. In another unsatisfying ending to an unsatisfying storyline, Kourtney manages to deal with her indecisiveness with the help of the Tony Robbins documentary on Netflix.
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" Similarly, Marie Claire called the episode "unsatisfying and unconventional.
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So, why was shopping for my big day so … unsatisfying?
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Anyway, all this presumption made for such an unsatisfying ending.
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The last stroke of genius is the movie's unsatisfying ending.
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Personally, I found that ending a little empty and unsatisfying.
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But an unsatisfying ending isn't the end of the world.
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The heroes kill him, but it's an empty, unsatisfying gesture.
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Many of the conventional explanations have been shallow and unsatisfying.
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The first problem was simply that the debate was unsatisfying.
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In the end, you will just be unsatisfying to all.
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There's a way to tell a story with an unsatisfying ending that indicates that by making that ending unsatisfying, you're trying to force the audience to pick at certain societal scabs they otherwise wouldn't.
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She is allowed brief and unsatisfying visits to her husband's temple throughout the year, and allows us equally brief and unsatisfying glimpses into the relationship that has transplanted her in such distant and unfamiliar soil.
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But, unfortunately, almost everything about this laptop is unsatisfying right now.
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It would be unsatisfying; it would be depressing; it wouldn't sell.
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The resolution of the film is both rushed and wholly unsatisfying.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel told reporters the climate conversations were unsatisfying.
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These vignettes end with unsatisfying conclusions, unanswered questions, and underwhelming villains.
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Theorizing about it can seem unsatisfying — the intellectual equivalent of ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
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But some, Mr. Kasriel observes, simply found full-time leisure unsatisfying.
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Lauer's apology is deeply unsatisfying, as Vox's Constance Grady points out.
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The abrupt, unsatisfying end led to questions, doubts, anger and rumors.
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As a result, all of these (somewhat unsatisfying) outcomes are possible:
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The path forward will continue to be perilous and deeply unsatisfying.
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What about TikTok does he find unsatisfying or irritating and why?
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What if it was as unsatisfying as the place where I was?
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It's fun, but deeply unsatisfying, lacking in both texture and moral weight.
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At the same time, however, there's something very unsatisfying about this theory.
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Her sequence was a bit of an unsatisfying tease for Maz fans.
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But more importantly, the slot makes for a completely unsatisfying consumer experience.
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Mae's whiplashing back and forth, as presented in the movie, is unsatisfying.
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You're setting a dangerous precedent for what sounds like pretty unsatisfying sex.
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Like Murakami's novels, the best of these stories are beautifully, delicately unsatisfying.
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That result likely will leave many questions unanswered and be deeply unsatisfying.
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But even luxury cruises can be flawed, weird, and unsatisfying at times.
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It's certainly unsatisfying and upsetting that we'll never know why this happened.
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If you don't work in technology, that is probably an unsatisfying answer.
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The reason for the switch remains, for this reader, unsatisfying and opaque.
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But in the end, there is something unsatisfying about this redemption checklist.
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He had a lucrative but creatively unsatisfying music career in Los Angeles.
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All this is very unsatisfying and I'd prefer more real products, obviously.
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Unlike Carl's Jr.'s fries, these feel thin, flimsy, and ultimately unsatisfying.
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And even if it was, it would make a very unsatisfying meal.
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It wasn't a good reversal; it was just a mechanic that was unsatisfying.
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The view of sex I'd grown up with seemed both exhausting and unsatisfying.
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The result, despite a gorgeous, impressively conducted score, is overstuffed, unsatisfying, and contradictory.
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There's only a hint of mushroom, but it's somehow both unsatisfying and overpowering.
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Kahl also warned that his answers to our questions would ultimately prove unsatisfying.
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The hodgepodge of postelection procedures in the states leads to several unsatisfying conclusions.
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This will be a welcome change after a very grouchy and unsatisfying morning.
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Even the Republicans' signature achievement, a tax cut bill, Mr. Cartmell deemed unsatisfying.
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I think both men and women find it unsatisfying for the most part.
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I was not the only one who received unsatisfying responses in the session.
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It's like a pulled punch and American audiences, in particular, find it unsatisfying.
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But in intriguing, sometimes unsatisfying ways, it leaves the synthesis to the viewer.
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They also concede that Britain's membership in the European Union was deeply unsatisfying.
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Young, both a philosopher and a left activist, found this narrow discourse unsatisfying.
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The ending is also unsatisfying, and doesn't do justice to what came before.
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Our brief Age of Irony was not only unsatisfying; it was politically destructive.
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His recently released memoir, "Call Sign Chaos," is interesting, instructive and, ultimately, unsatisfying.
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They are very simple ultimately, and feel, somehow, unfinished - occasionally a bit unsatisfying.
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But as a sports movie, it's unsatisfying — though that's not exactly its fault.
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He's talked about consent and toxic male culture, but it came off unsatisfying.
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Since neither of them will admit to anything, all of my solutions feel unsatisfying.
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Yet it's also extremely unsatisfying, and I'm trying to pin down why that is.
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She only spoke Cantonese, and got an unsatisfying, lonely job sewing clothes in factories.
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As it is now, Endgame leaves Black Widow's story in a supremely unsatisfying place.
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Stories of murder and violation abound in this unsettling, and ultimately unsatisfying, horror film.
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It's why Facebook's recent efforts, as earnest as they may be, feel ultimately unsatisfying.
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The female roles are always a catalyst for the male story, and that's unsatisfying.
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" Finding the response deeply unsatisfying, Meredith replied to ask "what exactly is being done?
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Company investigations of workplace sexual misconduct can be equally unsatisfying for those reporting it.
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I'm genuinely not sure how best to think about this confounding, deeply unsatisfying movie.
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Charmed originally aired from 1998 until 2006, when it met a pretty unsatisfying ending.
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It features a series of incredibly unsatisfying situations we've all experienced at some point.
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"The model of inflation is incredibly unsatisfying," Lisa Randall, Harvard University physicist, told Gizmodo.
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The unsatisfying finale, once the result of a bungled creative choice, became an inevitability.
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You can watch all the frustration at once in the original "UNSATISFYING" video below.
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To answer this, we need to explore what about capitalism they find so unsatisfying.
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Of course, the answer, while unsatisfying to many, is that there are many reasons.
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Vanderpump said, during a completely unsatisfying let's-clear-the-air chat at episode's end.
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The art and animations felt incomplete and the combat looked physically inconsequential and unsatisfying.
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Most productions can't help falling into the same unsatisfying pattern: dessert followed by vegetables.
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This is a deeply unsatisfying punchline to the past few years of American politics.
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You could try to do this again and likely receive a similar, unsatisfying result.
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Both audiences get unsatisfying conclusions, but ones that allow them to turn the page.
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"American Anarchist" makes for unsatisfying viewing, although it's possible it couldn't have been otherwise.
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A painful recession was fading into memory, yet the expansion felt unsatisfying to many.
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Several pieces, however, particularly the short reviews, make for intimate but curiously unsatisfying reading.
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But as shown onscreen, it's a pretty unsatisfying way to address some serious issues.
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The salad is really unsatisfying so I eat another chocolate chip cookie — the last one!
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The campaign's conclusion was unsatisfying, but the overall narrative arc was absolutely worth playing through.
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It is cold and lonely and empty and unsatisfying — and that may be the point.
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"Are you even human?" asks her father, dismayed with her driven but evidently unsatisfying life.
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And let me just say that this is the rudest and most unsatisfying finale ever!
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And because I had no emotional understanding of myself, all of it was fairly unsatisfying.
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It's complicated, Mr. Obama tries to explain — a response he acknowledges is accurate and unsatisfying.
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Annie's devotion to her unsatisfying relationship with Ryan stems from a deep place of insecurity.
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The actual feeling of using the Note 7 is in no way slow or unsatisfying.
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Truces are unsatisfying and instability is exciting and theological civil wars can be worth waging.
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And, one can reasonably speculate, more unpleasant and unsatisfying than not for Mr. Tillerson himself.
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Turkey's foreign minister declared the new Saudi explanation "unsatisfying" and called for an international investigation.
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When unwanted queries caught me off guard, my replies grew understated and were clearly unsatisfying.
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"The document they sent us last night is very unsatisfying as to that," he added.
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But the research that liberals were always sending him to change his mind was unsatisfying.
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Although the film has long, engaging stretches, there is something slightly unsatisfying about the whole.
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We know how the story ends: savagery, children dying, and an ironic and unsatisfying rescue.
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That's kind of the job of an act two, to be unsatisfying to some extent.
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To say this will be unsatisfying to many Times readers is probably a reckless understatement.
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The perception persists of a diet that is weak, bland, and singularly unsatisfying — rabbit food.
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But for an embittered worldview, I prefer "Unsatisfying," by the French animation company Parallel Studio.
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An unconvincing trial produces an unsatisfying verdict in the murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
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On a purely narrative level, Alex is a completely unsatisfying cop-out of a resolution.
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"Unlocking the Cage" might feel a tad unsatisfying on that score, but it's nevertheless thought provoking.
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He started his collection a decade ago after leaving an unsatisfying day job with a publisher.
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As a result, it falls back on the cheap and ultimately unsatisfying thrills of CGI gore.
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Many members of Congress and the public will likely find that to be an unsatisfying answer.
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German YouTuber Luksan Wunder shared "The Most Unsatisfying Video in the World ever made" last month.
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Perhaps they are struggling because the outcome of the election was unsatisfying to both of them.
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This is not to say Mr Bowie's latter-day career turn was in any way unsatisfying.
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It does end with an emotional breakthrough for Shinji, but many viewers found this deeply unsatisfying.
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The endings are truncated and unsatisfying, and this is partly because the characters aren't quite real.
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The candidates offered largely unsatisfying answers on pay inequality at the first presidential debate last month.
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While her sex drive didn't exactly go away, intimacy with her partner was unsatisfying and infrequent.
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Mr. Mohn's leave of absence is perhaps an unsatisfying coda to an embarrassing episode for NPR.
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Other than a short, unsatisfying stint as the general manager and coach for a Madison, Wis.
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When I now look at the teaser we made then, I find it unsatisfying and ugly.
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But Turkey's foreign minister declared the new Saudi explanation "unsatisfying" and called for an international investigation.
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The movie is marred by an unsatisfying resolution, which has a coyness better suited to literature.
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Sometimes you really feel the random number generation in a way that feels cheap and unsatisfying.
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But Lutheranism is ultimately unsatisfying, and he converts to Catholicism, the religion of Lockwood's mother, Karen.
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"55, 20163, 57, 58 —" But the end result was so deeply unsatisfying to virtually everybody involved.
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"55, 56, 57, 58 —" But the end result was so deeply unsatisfying to virtually everybody involved.
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He avoids the nihilist trap that causes so many journalistic assessments of politicians to be unsatisfying.
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"55, 56, 57, 58 —" But the end result was so deeply unsatisfying to virtually everybody involved.
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The past five years delivered 2.43% growth and last year came in at an unsatisfying 2.33%.
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To Dr. Baker and many other protein scientists, however, this sort tinkering has been deeply unsatisfying.
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But if you think that "profoundly unsatisfying" means I didn't like the finale, you'd be wrong.
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That also makes the resolution of the trial pretty much perfect in how unsatisfying it is.
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In academia, you'll often see a paper end with a simple, unsatisfying conclusion: More research is needed.
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In comparison, the situations animated in a new video, titled "UNSATISFYING" from Parallel Studio, are extremely mundane.
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Despite a gorgeous, impressively conducted score, David Lang's prisoner of the state felt overstuffed, unsatisfying, and contradictory.
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And yet, it feels facile and unsatisfying to spurn the new Nokia effort before it's even begun.
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Avid Verge readers will know of my frustration with Apple's unsatisfying MacBook Pro update late last year.
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The cracking of the mystery, at the conclusion of Gemini, is daft and unsatisfying, but no matter.
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Onkyo's H500Ms just don't do anything particularly well, turning the E700Ms inoffensive politeness into an unsatisfying tribulation.
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"I hope we [will] discover a lot of unsatisfying situations we didn't think [of]," de Fournas says.
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The cracking of the mystery, at the conclusion of "Gemini," is daft and unsatisfying, but no matter.
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I even experimented with the kinds of West Coast health foods that trade in obviously unsatisfying imitation.
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A totally reasonable reaction to this incredibly unsatisfying explanation is to ask what I mean by layers.
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Looks pretty unsatisfying," Cornyn tweeted, later adding a link to a Wikipedia post titled "Barbecue in Texas.
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Although it has fallen apart, the next step, unsatisfying as it may be, is to try again.
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Though wings have built-in handles, there's something mildly unsatisfying about gnawing on a tiny avian bone.
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As the results dribble out, they will be unsatisfying to almost everyone -- at least to some degree.
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He'd led a life that was unsatisfying to him and was a failure in his own eyes.
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Right now, signs point to "yes and no," which is very unsatisfying but also very likely true.
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His ensuing two years at The Washington Post were unsatisfying, in part because segregation limited his assignments.
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This is unsatisfying because while Max certainly is shocked by what happens, it seems inevitable to us.
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In terms of the wider story, Geillis's abrupt return — and even more abrupt departure — is narratively unsatisfying.
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My sister and I tried using it as a sled, an unsatisfying experience in a carpeted apartment.
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Intriguing but unsatisfying, Netflix's The Family fails to crack the code on this shadowy group of God-fearers.
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It was an unsatisfying ending, an ideal ending, the only ending that made sense for these two characters.
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Unfortunately, by the end, it largely feels like it's about how unsatisfying and unhelpful filming police actually is.
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Whatever conclusions we draw from memory research to try to understand Ford's accusations are going to be unsatisfying.
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Users might be drawn to click on shallow content, yet it can feel too frivolous and ultimately unsatisfying.
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The answers were unsatisfying to Mueller, according to the public version of the special counsel report released Thursday.
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But there were a lot of other things that struck me as unsatisfying narrative detours or dead ends.
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It was big on sense of place and humming with potential, but somewhat unsatisfying as a standalone experience.
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Most of the other new books are similarly unsatisfying, because they don't address the consequences of the Armistice.
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But after an unsatisfying lesson from Mr. Cohan-Shapiro, they were soon holding beers at a local bar.
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Negotiations that attempt to balance the interests of more than two dozen distinct societies often yield unsatisfying solutions.
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As a method for rendering critical judgments, the referee card system is intriguing, but also inexact and unsatisfying.
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The goose is the centerpiece of a pithy and unsatisfying meal the family eats together with heads hung.
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I think for a lot of readers, it's unsatisfying because I don't put my thumb on the scale.
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If there was a scintilla of self-consciousness to any of those lines, it would have been unsatisfying.
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But being a person who always likes to work in film, it was always so unsatisfying for me.
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Like the film, it feels a bit unfinished, but in a way readers will find intriguing, not unsatisfying.
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Clinical encounters that don't end with a definitive diagnosis — a clear acknowledgment of the enemy — are inherently unsatisfying.
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The public faces the unsatisfying question: Is it better to suffer an engineer's neglect or an engineer's concern?
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"We died for a tie," Korean War vets sometimes say, and there's something deeply unsatisfying about that narrative.
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That response was unsatisfying for Renee Typaldos, who owns Merakia, a Greek steakhouse at 113 West 21st Street.
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And yet, there was something many seemed to find unsatisfying about Comey's testimony: There was no knockout blow.
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Abandoning the pleasures of the simple story for the confusing realities of the bigger picture is emotionally unsatisfying.
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I tried several times to do it in my actual painting but found it either cheesy or unsatisfying.
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But the pad Thai noodles with chicken was bland and completely unsatisfying, and introduced a string of lackluster entrees.
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Maybe even if they are on dating apps, they are also following a social script that may be unsatisfying.
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Part slasher film, part psychological thriller, "Game Over" is an unsatisfying watch because Saravanan never quite picks a side.
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She doesn't get a resolution, but for Nora, all the pain of not knowing still beats an unsatisfying answer.
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Trump's terrifying ally in the Philippines; an unsatisfying victory for Republicans in Montana; the nation's deadliest drug overdose crisis.
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By the time I turned 30, I realized that not having a clear direction in life was tremendously unsatisfying.
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There is something profoundly unsatisfying about bond yields of 2% or so; they seem to offer a dismal reward.
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Gina has resigned herself to getting by playing unmemorable television roles and having unsatisfying flings with her co-stars.
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The Night King as of now has no known motivations, which makes him an unsatisfying villain in your eyes.
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The Shreddies did manage to block my flatulent bouquet, but it also muffled my farts to an unsatisfying echo.
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Sometimes, masturbation is a sign of an unsatisfying sex life; other times, however, it springs from being perfectly content.
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Generally presented in a series of five- or ten-minute videos, episodic VR stories can be rushed and unsatisfying.
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While multiple orgasms are great, Herbenick's urgent point is that when unsatisfying sex becomes the norm, it warrants discussion.
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It is full of menace but devoid of monsters, a minimalist approach that is both intriguing and somewhat unsatisfying.
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"Boston was so unsatisfying; I was ready, but with the conditions I just couldn't showcase my fitness," she said.
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In 2006, the International Astronomical Union picked option two by defining an unsatisfying set of criteria for a planet.
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And Mr. Golden, head of Princeton's endowment, had an "unsatisfying job at a small money management firm," he recalled.
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I think this is where many tech apologies feel unsatisfying to the consumers who are living with the consequences.
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It is not all that unusual, they said, for such an ambitious undertaking to end in an unsatisfying result.
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"Unsatisfying" from Parallel Studio is a brief, gentle look at some of the tiny heartbreaks and frustrations of everyday life.
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In contrast, the movies right now are offering up a curiously unsatisfying slate of Ocean's 8, Solo, and American Animals.
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On the latest episode of the Original Content podcast, we try to explain why we found this approach so unsatisfying.
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A recurring theme of this newsletter is that, when it comes to big tech companies, Congressional hearings are often unsatisfying.
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Blame it on adults marrying later, porn, Tinder, depression, political climate, social media — the options are endless, but equally unsatisfying.
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The brief and encouraging, if totally unsatisfying, answer is probably not, but, of course, there's more to it than that.
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What should have been one of the most thrilling moments of his life was actually one of the most unsatisfying.
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Rupi Kaur is a good example of the unsatisfying way in which literature, social media, and criticism intersect these days.
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Arthur: Neither candidate was especially distinguished or substantive in the debate, which led to what amounts to an unsatisfying draw.
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But tonight, during the completely unsatisfying culmination of the biggest show on television, we at least got that one moment.
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The war on ISIS is a tough, unsatisfying issue — one on which the president faces a huge number of constraints.
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I also usually find collections of short stories unsatisfying, especially if they're good, because they always leave me wanting more.
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The public accounts and conversations, even the ones that feel unsatisfying, hold hidden value because they draw out quieter ones.
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More unsettling than terrifying, the story (by the directors and Sergio Casci) builds to a leisurely, irresolute and unsatisfying climax.
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Mr. Demme and Ms. Hawn clashed over the film's editing, and the result was a movie generally seen as unsatisfying.
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One answer that open-borders supporters might offer is practical, if unsatisfying: as much as it can get away with.
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The muffled sound of a tossed coin landing, pre-match, on the courts' red-and-gray carpet was deeply unsatisfying.
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A Sanders win in California may indeed prove an awkward and unsatisfying way to end the months-long primary battle.
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But here it feels pretty dicey and results in a handsomely realized but unsatisfying, and in one crucial respect, trite, narrative.
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Yet this is not unsatisfying: Mr Tallis's characters remain sharply, painfully real, their stories as inconclusive, messy and fascinating as life.
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The trend toward ads cheerfully acknowledging that millennials should expect miserable working conditions and unsatisfying lives, and buy stuff to compensate.
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It was an unsatisfying end for Trump after months of wrangling over impeachment and years of fighting over the Russia investigation.
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That's how people end up with Nikon's unsatisfying 1 system cameras (which have only recently improved) or Apple's compromised 2015 MacBook.
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In its present state, it comprises two primary uses, each of which manages to be more existentially unsatisfying than the other.
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It's honestly pretty drab, and the most interesting part is assembling your wand; using it is clunky, awkward and ultimately unsatisfying.
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"Money is not our carrot; anytime I have tried to do something for the money, it's been very unsatisfying," he said.
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I'm also glad you brought up Theon, since that was a major-ish plot thread and one that I found unsatisfying.
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Because of the interdependent nature of rice cultures, people have tighter social networks and it's more difficult to exit unsatisfying relationships.
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I feel like I'm inadvertently settling into a life that's totally unsatisfying, but I'm apprehensive about making a major career change.
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Unsatisfying resolutions for all of the Wang children feel forced when they are sent to the other end of the earth.
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You will use Google because the small art reproductions in this book are in black and white; they're murky and unsatisfying.
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Unsatisfying as it may be, we ought to acknowledge the truth that we, as amateurs, often don't have much to offer.
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They found some consumer pain points—unsatisfying nights of sleep, the inconvenience of buying a new mattress—and addressed them handily.
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Or, is it yet another unsatisfying way that women lean on their appearances as a source of personal knowledge and validation?
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This week, Parallel Studio's team of directors, motion designers, and illustrators put together an animated video tribute to all things Unsatisfying.
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Crowded with paintings they have made together and separately, their show communicates a smart, ambiguous, mostly unsatisfying polish at closer range.
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I call these "zombie checks," and they're nearly guaranteed to be unsatisfying or make you feel like you're wasting your life.
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But none of it changes the fact that Bran has long been one of the most unsatisfying characters on the show.
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She stays for a night, which includes an unsatisfying tryst, then returns to Paris, stopping en route in Cologne and Brussels.
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But as with the pleasures that come from pornography and Krispy Kreme doughnuts, these cerebral gratifications are brief and ultimately unsatisfying.
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There's plenty to draw from, given the rift last episode — in fact, it's deeply unsatisfying how fast they smooth things over.
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The unsatisfying truth is that N.F.L. ratings are a Rorschach test, often revealing more about the test taker than the subject.
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Similarly, once the Senate acquits Trump, independent voters will wonder what the purpose was — another unsatisfying anti-climax for the Democrats.
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He had spent the afternoon in his own hotel in a deep slumber, after the unsatisfying encounter with Tira and Stolarsky.
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The second unsatisfying liberal argument is that liberalism may not be perfect, but it has a long history of repairing itself.
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The third and final unsatisfying liberal response, the one that frustrates me the most, is lashing out at the wrong enemies.
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What I found so profoundly unsatisfying in the second half was the character turns that occurred, I found no justification for.
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Disappointingly, I don't know why, but there is something incredibly unsatisfying about making it rain with a handful of muddy receipts.
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History is often messy and unsatisfying, but you have to admit that it doles out a perfect story arc now and then.
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Maybe it's a personal thing, but this has always felt a little unsatisfying to me, as far as space opera fantasies go.
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Ask HTC, which has this year rolled out the (unsatisfying) U Ultra and U11, and it would tell you the same story.
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The reason those details are so scarce becomes clear at the film's unsatisfying conclusion, which is meant as setup for a sequel.
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In reality, though, it turned into an unsatisfying conversation about the lack of oversight Facebook employs over political speech on the platform.
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"Producers cut the bit about Danielle and Wells update cause it was pretty confusing and unsatisfying," he wrote, provoking many virtual jeers.
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Without important details, Shakespeare often remains an enigmatic genius, an icon, the "sweet Swan of Stratford", which makes for an unsatisfying portrayal.
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A spokesperson said it was because of "packaging" issues that Super Cruise wasn't available in either model, but that's an unsatisfying answer.
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When the audience finally finds out the reason behind the daughter's strange behavior, it's deeply unsatisfying and verges on being comically ridiculous.
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It's this line of thinking that inspired Parallel Studio's The Unsatisfying Challenge — a prompt for anyone to share their own bitter disappointments.
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"I don't want to - this is going to be unsatisfying to you - I don't want to get into it," the official said.
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It's an end to the story, and not an entirely unsatisfying one, depending on what you wanted to get out of it.
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The result is a ridiculously over-the-top, deeply absurd, and unsatisfying climax that threatens to undermine the film as a whole.
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It's an emotionally unsatisfying form of leadership, but if you care more about the policy than the winning, it's your best bet.
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It's a challenge to watch these clips without cringing, but you can see for yourself, below: UNSATISFYING from PARALLEL STUDIO on Vimeo.
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But, judging by how many people deal with restless nights of unsatisfying sleep, few of us truly take this saying to heart.
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METROPOLITAN DIARY A classic sidewalk find, an unsatisfying return and more reader tales of New York City in this week's Metropolitan Diary.
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The unsatisfying final result underplayed the excitement in a game that stumbled along for three quarters before turning into a nail-biter.
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Warren has apologized and said she should not have identified as Native American, but to some critics, her apologies have been unsatisfying.
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The fitness influencer responded to these criticisms with something I thought to be both comedically practical and sadly unsatisfying to her critics.
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I kept going, and pretty soon realized something in my shoulder was definitely not right, so called it a (very unsatisfying) day.
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Sports of The Times So a compelling two-year run of American political and cultural theater comes to a deeply unsatisfying conclusion.
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From now on, I'll try to rewire my brain and tell my hands to do something constructive during stressful or unsatisfying moments.
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Then season one comes along and darkens this idea considerably, but justice arrives in the end (albeit in an anticlimactic and unsatisfying finale).
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Would you trade a couple of unsatisfying dates for an affectionate phone conversation with a woman you may never realize is a chatbot?
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Its OLED display remained a highlight, but it was surrounded by a machine with unsatisfying battery life and a series of smaller issues.
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I could see a path where Stefan is very happy, for instance, but in a way that's deliberately boring and unsatisfying for us.
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Fast foods, snack foods, and carbonated beverages swept across the world, and more calories (but not healthy nutrients) came in these unsatisfying forms.
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There's been a wave of body-positivity-lite media recently, like the shallow and unsatisfying I Feel Pretty, which conflated insecurity with marginalization.
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The background electronica has jarred towards a brash and unsatisfying EDM too, and it's unpleasant, but it shouldn't distract us from the savior.
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Given that the episode uses such gruesomely familiar imagery, positioning that moment to be about Rachel is so unsatisfying as to be insulting.
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I had a preconceived notion that just because these meals were "healthy," it meant that they were going to be unsatisfying and bland.
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Yet it was published just seven days before the election, and was unsatisfying in exploring the back story that led to its conclusions.
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Multi-person matches tend to follow a thoroughly unsatisfying formula, regardless of which promotion is putting them on and who's wrestling in them.
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If so, it was unsatisfying; while the piece hardly gets clearer as it progresses, its enigmas grow to feel more intentional and beautiful.
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But Mr. Mueller's prosecutors considered his memory lapses unsatisfying and pressed Mr. Trump's lawyer again for an in-person interview, to no avail.
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Love's Labour's Lost Two wildly divergent school-life novels — one dystopian and one historical — feature compelling characters locked in tragically unsatisfying love triangles.
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Ever since "Lost" landed (or didn't, actually), networks have been enamored with seeking to replicate that sort of mystery, with mostly unsatisfying results.
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Luke's explanation as to why Leia quit her Jedi training is unsatisfying, a half-baked resolution to an out-of-nowhere plot point.
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It's not just in marriage, but in everything, Maslow's hierarchy of needs has always pointed toward a chilly, unsatisfying version of self-fulfillment.
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I think it's going to be, to a degree, unsatisfying if, as we expect, the report is less expansive than we might want.
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Facebook traffic has been going down, the money you make from ads on Facebook has been unsatisfying, and you've probably reached this conclusion.
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Some have been hinted or nudged at during press briefings, and others have been asked and answered -- but in confusing or unsatisfying ways. 217.
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" However, he said, "As part of our rolling bear market theme, it's going to be a very unsatisfying bear market to the bears. Why?
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The world of truly wireless earphones can be summed up as follows: there are AirPods, the Jabra Elite 65t, and all the unsatisfying others.
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Gravity's storyline, for instance, suggests the endeavor of art in the contemporary art world is an unsatisfying follow-up to a failed spiritual quest.
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For many fans, this last batch of episodes has been frustrating, predictable, and largely unsatisfying outside of some major plot points coming to fruition.
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Do you think eventually that's unsatisfying for audiences and/or people who are putting that out, because it doesn't seem like a real thing?
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The justification Wrenn gives — that Republicans want to protect their majority in the government just like anyone else — is unsatisfying, to say the least.
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We're offered only unsatisfying morsels of exposition: news of cheerleaders taking cyanide pills at halftime; one character flippantly announcing he's finished going to funerals.
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Considering the unsatisfying results both Trump haters and supporters are likely to get from Comey himself, the president's tweets might steal the show ... again.
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More often, it's an unsatisfying mix of those and other variables: The place is right, the timing is spot on — only you were off.
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The simple, if unsatisfying, answer is that Trump trusts Kushner, making him one of the few remaining members of an exclusive, always thinning club.
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And perhaps they did, but they did little to change the direction of the Yankees season, which is swiftly drawing to an unsatisfying end.
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Read more ReadGlass Is a Frustrating, Unsatisfying Conclusion to the Unbreakable SagaNineteen years ago, I saw M. Night Shyamalan's Unbreakable and fell in love.
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"I'd been rejected at everything," Ms. Laurer told The Boston Herald in 1999, describing unsatisfying efforts as a bartender, a saleswoman and a singer.
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The issue of consensual yet joyless and unsatisfying sex was the same one my mom and her friends were grappling with 50 years ago.
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I know the smell of management rot, and it is unsatisfying to contemplate LeBron James playing out his career for this collection of nincompoops.
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" Still, after an unsatisfying post-college job designing clothes she concluded that "the depth of conversation you can have with a coat is limited.
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Dr. Mansfield, who was searching for examples of ancient mathematics to intrigue his students, came across Plimpton 322 and found the previous explanations unsatisfying.
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And while we're finally being honest in some sectors about what it means to be a woman in America, the results are often unsatisfying.
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And hey, even if your team loses or that show you love takes an unsatisfying turn, at least you'll have someone to commiserate with.
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It felt like a bit of a contrast with The Last Jedi, which played with expectations in a way that sometimes seemed deliberately unsatisfying.
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We should not take the easy path of pledges to eliminate energy sources that leave the resulting, unsatisfying outcome to unsuspecting citizens and ratepayers.
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And so, while generations of readers have loved Little Women and sighed over Little Women, they have also puzzled over that bizarre, unsatisfying ending.
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As unsatisfying as it is to see Isabella forgive Angelo — albeit for the sake of another woman — it's also, perhaps, the right thing to do.
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Trump bit the bullet rather than reject this (for him) unsatisfying compromise plan and risk a government shutdown just over 100 days into his term.
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But after China's new round of tariffs, and Powell's apparently unsatisfying remarks at an annual central bank event in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Trump's tune changed.
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A system to tell good fake bokeh from bad DxOMark did a comparison of some early artificial bokeh systems; the results, however, were somewhat unsatisfying.
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The Deep Dive immersive group that had planned this experience had a firm grasp of story, and I couldn't believe they'd leave unsatisfying loose ends.
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It's an unsatisfying answer, in a way, because people aren't an algorithm or pricing model we can update, or a news outlet we can ignore.
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After a string of unsatisfying and downright depressing gigs in research and management, she finally quit her job in finance to become a professional dominant.
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It does a lot, for example, to explain exactly what's so unsettling about the Cambridge Analytica issue, and why the congressional hearings were so unsatisfying.
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Staying together can be selfless -- or selfish The recent studies suggest that people stay in unsatisfying relationships because they're concerned about hurting their partner's feelings.
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Mr. Dyer starts with an essay about a deeply unsatisfying attempt to retrace the footsteps of Paul Gauguin on the centenary of the artist's death.
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In fact, it's just like the 12-inch MacBook's keyboard — mushy, unsatisfying, and a design decision Apple is just telling us to get used to.
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"What critics said: "It is so frustrating to come to the end of its three-season run with so many loose ends and unsatisfying conclusions.
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But Mr. Abdeslam's few words and notable silence may offer a foretaste of an unsatisfying road ahead for the authorities and victims' families and friends.
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Probably. But the unsatisfying answer is that we don't know — and we really don't know which parts will end up mattering in the long run.
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I didn't make any until my older daughter was in preschool, because all my initial efforts to make them felt forced, awkward and ultimately unsatisfying.
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" Anthony Ha on the Watchmen finale: "The structure of the finale is that Lady Trieu is essentially the 'big bad,' which I found very unsatisfying.
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We had a quick, heated, unsatisfying exchange during which he admitted nothing and I said nothing as memorable or macho as I'd hoped to say.
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The Night Of finale, titled "The Call of the Wild," was profoundly unsatisfying television, providing nothing in the way of concrete resolution or definitive answers.
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That trust is at historic low levels right now, so people both in the US and other countries are rightly skeptical of the official unsatisfying explanations.
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An unsatisfying litany of heavy political lifts, most of which will fail, and each of which on its own would only mildly improve matters if adopted.
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Eventually that dynamic grows unsatisfying, because you're left with a purely reactive main character and a side character who's a lot better at driving a story.
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If you're designing a mass market wearable, pitting the fitness-freak athlete with the out-of-shape middle-aged dad will lead to an unsatisfying experience.
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It's an unsatisfying conclusion, and in general the show delivers the profound sense of having short-changed all its subjects, from the murderers to the victims.
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But instead of freeing ourselves from the suffocating 40-hour workweek, we've invented a whole universe of futile occupations that are professionally unsatisfying and spiritually empty.
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"We want to get to the root of the problem," says Moran, who left an unsatisfying business career in Australia to pursue a life of healing.
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The elegantly bruised ballad "Best Years of My Life" shows a woman coping with the realization that she's settled for a stable yet deeply unsatisfying life.
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Gay manages to explain why she found Santopietro's book unsatisfying in clear and cogent prose, without the hesitation and pulled punches that plague many other reviewers.
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Mr. Carlucci studied business at Harvard for a year, but after bailing out of a brief unsatisfying business career, he joined the State Department in 1956.
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This British thriller is a high-concept tease that slogs its way through a morass of barely differentiated characters and visuals before reaching an unsatisfying conclusion.
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Instead, she puts their love story into unsatisfying play with the romance that bloomed years earlier between the young Christina (Chanté Adams) and Isaac (Y'Lan Noel).
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Penalties remain a profoundly unsatisfying way to resolve anything of import, but with the margins so narrow at the top in 22012, they kept proving necessary.
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One of the ideas out there for why these events attract conspiracy theories is that it's psychologically unsatisfying when something big is caused by something small.
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I mumbled something unsatisfying and not entirely relevant about how he, not I, had put Shydlovski in that position, and walked away confused, humiliated, and feeling guilty.
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It lays out explanations for the star's existence, but they're kitschy, unsatisfying ones — the kind of stories that fans who demand "answers" to fictional mysteries often get.
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It was an unsatisfying way to end a quest — and a reminder that not everything that looked like a story hook was going to lead somewhere worthwhile.
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Related: These Extremely Unsatisfying GIFS Will Make You Cringe 6 GIFs Describe the Moment When You Realize You're High Spooky Skeleton GIFs Bring Humor to Ordinary Life
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Wingard has already stated his desire to do a sequel, and given the unsatisfying ending, the movie seemingly leaves open the possibility of that to its detriment.
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To have that trauma swept under the rug again, just as Kimmy is starting to deal with it, is extremely unsatisfying and feels like a missed opportunity.
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You can also "shoot" oil spills at opposing cars which is a sort of ambiguous and unsatisfying method of making whoever is in first place spin out.
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There are strong spots, but not likely to the extent that they override the continuity of necessary-but-unsatisfying, even plodding, recovery from last decade's financial crisis.
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Following a series of unsatisfying "moral victories" at the polls in 2017, Democrats managed to engineer an old-fashioned kind of victory in, of all places, Alabama.
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As she endures terrible food and corny trust exercises, she's grappling with the possibility of her parents divorcing and her own unsatisfying relationship with Fran (Jake Lacy).
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Don't be hampered by the fact that it's a fictional place, or that dragons aren't real, or that human life is as unsatisfying as it is fleeting.
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And is this likely to make up for the fact that your relationship with your husband is deeply unsatisfying, again in ways that go far beyond sex?
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What makes this reading unsatisfying, though, is the fact that C.K. has never addressed the rumors — or, now, the reports — of his misconduct outside of his art.
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News analysis: Mr. Mueller's appearance "proved as polarizing and unsatisfying as almost everything else about the two-year investigation he led," our chief White House correspondent writes.
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"We have an access to markets which is unbalanced, unsatisfying," Macron told members of the French and Chinese business community at an event in Beijing, Reuters reported.
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If so, discuss and connect why this missing or unsatisfying element needs to be better addressed in the podcast narrative — and in the writing they will do.
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At two hours and forty five minutes, it's also an impossibly long quest towards a mostly unsatisfying conclusion, punctuated with flashbacks that feel disconnected from the original.
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But I restarted Blair Witch almost the moment I finished it, determined to change an abrupt and unsatisfying fate that I wasn't quite sure how I'd chosen.
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They may opt for reform that expires in 10 years, but that will be unsatisfying for a business community that makes investments on a far longer timeline.
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Like many expats, Wolf took an unsatisfying job teaching English to stay in the country, but she kept her eyes open for something a little more physically stimulating.
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The United States, on the other hand, is acting as it normally does: holding a deeply unsatisfying Congressional hearing, and letting that stand as a substitute for action.
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Feinstein, who attended yesterday's hearing and asked questions at that hearing as well, expressed disappointment at the tech companies for answers that she said were vague and unsatisfying.
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Four congressional sources Mother Jones spoke with, who requested anonymity to speak frankly, said Facebook often provided unsatisfying or incomplete answers when pressed by lawmakers and their staff.
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As fashionable as it is to bemoan the industry's reliance on sequels and remakes, generic approaches to plot and character development are far more pervasive, and equally unsatisfying.
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It did not matter that the mystery at the heart of the story ultimately proved unsatisfying in its resolution, that in the end its mythmaking was for naught.
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After years of having a consistently unsatisfying love life, I decided to really put effort into understanding my dating patterns and the type of men I go for.
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Olympic officials offered a series of unsatisfying explanations — a bloom of algae due to heat and lack of wind, a decrease in alkalinity as more people used it.
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If you think you've invested 50 hours and counting for a tale that will be as ultimately unsatisfying as Lost, this livestream did nothing to assuage your doubts.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel slammed Trump Sunday saying climate talks with him were "unsatisfying" and that Germany could not "completely depend" on the U.S. as a reliable partner.
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News of the surreptitious use of this persistent surveillance tool underlines the importance of transparency in law enforcement and the unsatisfying state of Supreme Court aerial surveillance rulings.
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But despite the enormous scope and visual spectacle, too many key components of the film -- including those that have kept die-hard fans guessing and debating -- prove unsatisfying.
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Related: These Extremely Unsatisfying GIFS Will Make You Cringe The GIF Turned 30 and We Went to Its Birthday Party We Can't Leaf These Mesmerizing Plant GIFs Alone
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"It was a bad and unsatisfying year," Chief Executive Soren Skou told journalists, adding the result was especially hurt by weak performance at container shipping business Maersk Line.
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And a lot of people said to us how they found the game… Not exactly unsatisfying, but they wish they could have explored the areas between the strongholds.
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The result, though smart and moving, is also unsatisfying, leaving you to question whether finding one's voice — in this case literally — is a form of redemption or revenge.
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After a chippy, unsatisfying game, Iran won its World Cup opener against Morocco on Friday in St. Petersburg, 1-0, thanks to an own goal in added time.
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The witches' brew of interesting ideas, exaggerated claims and unsatisfying generalizations that make up this volume both reflects and reveals some of the conundrums of our wired age.
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An internet company decides to revolutionize an industry — the taxi and limousine market — that defines old-school business-government cooperation, with all the attendant bureaucracy and unsatisfying service.
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An internet company decides to revolutionize an industry — the taxi and limousine market — that defines old-school business-government cooperation, with all the attendant bureaucracy and unsatisfying service.
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In between his urban explorations, though, Schweinsteiger — invigorated after an unsatisfying, injury-marred stint at Manchester United — has played a vital role in the Fire's dramatic about-face.
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The first of these unsatisfying arguments, which I associate most closely with Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker, is that the narrative of a world in crisis is simply wrong.
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This is where Mr. Mueller's "by the book" behavior may be initially unsatisfying to Mr. Trump's critics but ultimately more threatening to the president in the long run.
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But despite the enormous scope and visual spectacle, too many key components of the film — including those that have kept die-hard fans guessing and debating — prove unsatisfying.
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But her argument, rendered in her oddly Southron accent, that they had to take the fight to the Boltons because "Winterfell is our home" is kind of unsatisfying.
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But I think looking for answers is almost always the wrong approach to the mystery show, because the answers you seek are going to be either unsatisfying or unnerving.
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But if his early solo output seemed like an unsatisfying change in direction from the Fab Four, "Egypt Station" feels less so, thanks to its deliberately Beatles-esque feel.
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As a game designer, Garfield's first task in making his own trivia game was to focus on the pain points that make standard trivia quizzes so unsatisfying for many.
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And by sidelining "Her Turn" at the story, the season's structure culminates into a finale so rushed and unsatisfying its hard to imagine how it could be its last.
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Short of spending your whole life having unsatisfying sex and never initiating sex, there are tangible, actionable things you can do to try to have better sex more often.
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Despite the allegations, Facebook believes that suppressing conservative trends or any other type of content would simply lead to an unsatisfying experience for those who want to see it.
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In this one small (but not insignificant) way, I think, 19th-century women were lucky, with their largely unsatisfying marriages and segregation into a subjugated and repressed gender caste.
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But rather than giving in to fear and taking another unsatisfying job, he turned to a childhood escape that would eventually become his million-dollar passion project: Slot cars.
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While her actions towards the end of Season 2 can be read as the start of a redemptive arc it's almost guaranteed to be a tiresome and unsatisfying slog.
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They project sound at me in a natural manner that makes the iMac's downward-firing speaker sound exactly like what it is, a downward-firing and quite unsatisfying speaker.
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Like Bernie Sanders, his populism has fed on stagnation and diminished expectations, not panic or collapse: Its success is the fruit of an unsatisfying stability, not a vertiginous decline.
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"As unsatisfying as that may be, it's actually better than giving credit to the tax bill for serving as the inception of some new thrust toward even higher rates."
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In the letter, Jordan and Meadows write that Davis told them Cohen's testimony was likely to be "unsatisfying" and "frustrating" because of the topics that would be off limits.
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But the meeting led to an oddly unsatisfying conclusion: Mochizuki couldn't convince Scholze and Stix that his argument was sound, but they couldn't convince him that it was unsound.
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Many found the response unsatisfying, particularly given Frelinghuysen's remarks on Trump's recent Muslim ban, which, while read as critical by some, were found lacking by group members I interviewed.
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It was an unsatisfying resolution, but the thinking among the doctors was that she had an adverse reaction to the medication she'd been given to treat the presumed malaria.
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The Spectacles can only capture video in 10-second spurts, which is fitting for a typical social media browser's short attention span, but unsatisfying for those reliving intimate memories.
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Instead, we search constantly and vainly for expanding opportunities to buy into an unsatisfying life of narrow imitation, one dedicated to assorted empty pleasures and casually-available chemical diversions.
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Laying out the unsatisfying, inconclusive "he said, she said" is as if it were a deep investigation hurtling you toward some definitive answer is, if anything, a step backward.
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And that popularity was despite the unsatisfying experience of having to wait several business days for the antiquated ACH transfer to go through and let you trade with your money.
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However, what began as a discussion of world building and a call made by Tyson for "physics as liberating," quickly ended in an unsatisfying examination of elitism in media criticism.
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Instead, we get Eleven taking a bus and magically finding the wacky criminals for what essentially amounts to a really unsatisfying bottle episode in the seventh hour of the season.
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It gives Cole the chance to finally ask why Noah and Alison had an affair, something I've been waiting four seasons for, although the answer is utterly unsatisfying and brief.
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Google Now isn't even a proper app on Android, and Hangouts is a mess, with an unsatisfying mix of features that don't compare well with what's available on other services.
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" Widely regarded as one of the sharpest script-polishers in Hollywood, Mr. Penhall has had his share of unsatisfying artistic encounters in an industry he likened to "a sausage factory.
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A little jealousy is healthy, but basing attention and self-worth based on another person's anger or negative feelings is a quick way to have a really dangerously unsatisfying relationship.
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Instead of pushing down, you can just rest your finger on it to unlock the phone, which I prefer since the button's clickiness is pretty unsatisfying and a bit cheap.
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This destruction porn video is especially great because you get to see it happen at normal speed (completely unsatisfying but still hilarious) and in slow motion (totally satisfying and graceful).
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But the idea that bias is somehow "inherent" in all of us—a fact of life, something normal and natural, which simply must be recognized and accepted—is deeply unsatisfying.
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Even if his vision of the future comes to pass, there's something unsatisfying about Runciman's refusal to speculate on what might be done to avoid the dreary scenario he conjures.
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In typical bad management fashion, yes, Taylor and her mother-turned-manager were left alone alone to explain what had transpired in the wake of her messy, unsatisfying roll-out.
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And with ice cream, you might only notice how icy, bland, and unsatisfying a particularly lousy scoop of ice cream is when you compare it to a really lovely one.
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That "why" represented a wariness that had built up over the last few years from a series of one-off dates and a few long-term, but ultimately unsatisfying, relationships.
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Adi: Reopening the saga with a "technically not a sequel" sequel would be pretty unsatisfying to me, and Ridley, Isaac, and Boyega have emphatically said they're done with Star Wars.
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And Gerwig is explicitly linking Jo/Alcott's decision to sell her heroine into a fictional marriage — that deeply unsatisfying marriage to Bhaer — to Amy's decision to sell herself into marriage.
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"The apology has to be the start of a process, and maybe the reason an apology feels unsatisfying is that they feel like the end of the process," says Zuckerman.
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Rather than rest upon an unsatisfying victory, Bruce saw the incident as a catalyst for evolution, and his personalized system of Jeet Kune Do soon began to take tangible shape.
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The rest of us would be straining and struggling, out of shape and deep in debt, short on time and wondering why life is so difficult and yet so unsatisfying.
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I wonder how many people have been medicated out of this journey, have popped a pill that allowed them to clock in at an unsatisfying office job to pay the bills.
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After an unsatisfying second quarter of 23, in which the company delivered only 2370,2000 electric cars, Tesla has delivered a record 23,20173 cars in the third quarter, a 22017 percent increase.
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That was a role-player with a big but empty world and unsatisfying combat, which unfortunately stood in the way of a fantastic story, told with a quiet and melancholic tone.
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Champagne wines are expected to see a sharp rise in production, up 56 percent from last year to 3.5 million hectoliters, after several years of unsatisfying crops due to bad weather.
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While it can be frustrating to watch a director exercise too heavy a hand in service of a concept, it can be unsatisfying to see one who appears so hands-off.
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Maureen is desperate to communicate with her twin brother to feel whole again, if only for a moment, before she can leave Paris and escape the doldrums of her unsatisfying job.
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The game gives vague and unsatisfying responses, but as Human Revolution made clear, the real answer to any question is probably that the Illuminati (or some other secret society) is responsible.
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Because of budget cuts, inflexible rules, a patchwork of programs and a widespread failure to bolster alternative care, others like Mr. Dawkins describe feeling stuck in deeply unsatisfying, sometimes miserable, settings.
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For now, we pay homage to one of the most infuriating-but-oh-so-awesome videos of all time with 6 GIF'd clips of UNSATISFYING, officially uploaded to GIPHY by Parallel.
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Hill confirmed to The New York Times last week that he reached out to her, but said she found his overture unsatisfying and that it did not constitute a true apology.
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Then the Mets went out and lost for the second consecutive day to a club they had beaten five consecutive times, bringing an unsatisfying end to a 5-5 road trip.
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Special counsel Robert Mueller wrapped up his 675-day probe—the most politically charged investigation in American history—with a profoundly unsatisfying conclusion about whether President Donald Trump obstructed justice: Maybe.
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I wonder how many people have been medicated out of this journey, have popped a pill that allowed them to clock in at an unsatisfying office job to pay the bills.
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In that segment, Gomez riffs about a candy he describes as a small wax bottle containing an unsatisfying amount of sweet liquid (he appears to be describing the Nik-L-Lip).
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To ground Marx's argument one has to counter the religious idea that we dream of something beyond this life because it's inherently unsatisfying to be a finite, fragile, vulnerable human being.
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In a statement, he said GAM's forecast for a small underlying profit before tax in 2019 was unsatisfying and called for management to make a clear declaration of GAM's future path.
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To wit, while resigned to a dreary future of suffocating banalities and unsatisfying work, even the most financially well-off Americans seemingly lurch thoughtlessly from one personal forfeiture to the next.
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Critic's Notebook The death of the 21-year-old rapper, which comes after those of Lil Peep and XXXTentacion, marks the unsatisfying, rapid conclusion of the decade's most promising musical movement.
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Champagne wines are expected to see a sharp rise in production, up 56 percent from last year to 3.5 million hectolitres, after several years of unsatisfying crops due to bad weather.
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AS BORIS JOHNSON and Jeremy Corbyn blustered their way through an unsatisfying televised debate on November 19th, a range of online fact-checking services helped sort the truth from the tosh.
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It's difficult to make sense of this as a security measure, particularly at a time when many people question the veracity of government orders, but other explanations are either unsatisfying or damning.
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But he's already prepared to piss some people off, both for failing to deliver an unsatisfying conclusion to the multi-year ARG saga and because Frog Fractions 2 is a total curveball.
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But I want to suggest an alternative explanation for the current popularity of revivals, why they can only ever be unsatisfying, and most importantly, how the dissatisfaction they inspire can be useful.
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As my colleague TC Sottek noted at the time, Facebook regularly describes itself as critical infrastructure for modern society — making any outage problematic, and the company's typically opaque explanations for them unsatisfying.
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In this version of events, women don't understand their bodies, or are bad at communicating their needs, or end up partnering with someone who doesn't listen, and the result is unsatisfying sex.
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The whole discussion of the electability topic was unsatisfying, though — because, as good politicians do, practically everyone insisted they'd arrived at all their positions purely on the merits, without any political calculation.
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The Destiny community has been in turmoil lately, with Bungie under fire for deceptive systems, failing to communicate with its most hardcore fans, and producing a sequel with a generally unsatisfying endgame.
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An orgasm can fit both or either set of criteria yet be disappointing, unsatisfying, or not particularly powerful — something magazine articles rarely address when they're exhorting their audience to go O wild.
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With Disney currently doubling down on remaking all its animated classics in live-action form, there's a sense that the studio is eating its own tail, with increasingly limited and unsatisfying returns.
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It was a bit of an unsatisfying conclusion to the story of the "most hated man in America"—one that seemingly united the whole country in outrage for the entirety of 2016.
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Ultimately, the biggest problem with Snowpiercer the movie was an unsatisfying ending that brought the rebellion plot up short for no clear reason, halting the action in favor of long, windy speeches.
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For most of the interview, Dorsey outlined steps that Twitter has taken to combat abuse and misinformation, but Anderson explained why the company's critics sometimes find those steps so insufficient and unsatisfying.
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The discovery of a new email trove presented him with a choice between risking opprobrium for not revealing its existence until after the election or delivering his deeply unsatisfying letter on Friday.
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As a result, the bills introduced or the administrative actions pursued to lower drug prices tend to be technical and small-bore and simply unsatisfying to a public desperate for a solution.
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As a teenager, if I wanted to participate in fangirling with my friends, I was forced to pick from boy bands like B2K or 112, whose members were chiseled, cheesy and unsatisfying.
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There's hardly anything worse than having a knot in your stomach on a Sunday night when you know you have to be at an unsatisfying or stressful job in a few hours.
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The result is deeply unsatisfying for many in his party, which has been yearning for a unified government to finally make major changes to entitlement programs to bring the deficit in line.
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And that, ultimately, is why the unsatisfying nature of "The Call of the Wild" is a plus for me, even with all of the other weird stuff going on in the plot.
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I know when foreign officials were talking to the White House trying to get information from them about what they were trying to achieve, the answers they found very unsatisfying, the foreign officials.
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But most of the Reddit posts in r/dustypcs only show the computers when they're filthy, and they rarely show what they look like after they've been cleaned, which I find incredibly unsatisfying.
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You'd have to make a spreadsheet to parse them all out, and even if you did, picking a winner would be unsatisfying because they each produce aesthetically different photos, which is entirely subjective.
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Do I rate these headphones on the undeniable strength of their organic, beautiful, hi-fi sound when listened to indoors, or do I dismiss them on the basis of their unsatisfying performance outdoors?
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Are Black Mirror's creators implying that they also are emotionally shattered people battling mental illness, or alternately that Black Mirror is facile, unsatisfying 0/5 art because it was created by sane people?
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One congressman, Jim Himes, said he had read Zuckerberg's speech at Georgetown University multiple times — a speech meant to be his landmark address on the topic — and found it unsatisfying and somewhat naive.
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For all the fantastic long-formy journalism showcased in true crime dramas like Serial, it can be disappointing when the carefully ushered narrative arc gives way to, well, messy (and often unsatisfying) realities.
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Texas with a 22013-22013 split and an unsatisfying one-line affirmance of the lower court to deny deportation relief to as many as five million immigrants who could have applied for it.
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The people of Hong Kong are asking that we support them, and as fellow travelers in the messy, often unsatisfying and fraught experiment of democracy, we owe it to them to do so.
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The spectacular approach of "Anthropocene" is unsatisfying: after surveying the various battlegrounds from high above, the viewer has no better understanding of the causes of the war, let alone how to end it.
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Thanks, in part, to the difficulty of clothing, there is a lot of sex, random and unsatisfying, but there are very few children, because no one knows how to take care of them.
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The biggest problem doesn't at all seem to be negligence by Facebook: there are reasons for everything, and as is often the case with moderation, those reasons are often unsatisfying but effective compromises.
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There's also an opportunity to participate in monthly challenges (the current one involves rewriting an unsatisfying final scene) and to share scripts and films for feedback from other members of the Sundance community.
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As gay bars continue their slow decline and modern gay dating, for the most part, remains as problematic and unsatisfying as ever, Remy might just be pioneering a new model of gay networking.
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In the late 282s, frustrated by the unsatisfying quality of his own images, Ruff accessed copy negatives of photographic plates of the sky at night taken by the European Southern Observatory in Chile.
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The Republican has promised a focus on burying House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's legislative priorities, but without a robust GOP agenda it could prove unsatisfying for lawmakers facing restive voters ahead of 2020 elections.
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But the lack of available details about his activities, including the precise nature of his relationship with the Ghadars, forces her to tell the story at a remove that at times feels unsatisfying.
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SEVERANCE, by Ling Ma. (Picador, $17.) Candace, the daughter of Chinese immigrants, is the anchor of this dystopian novel as she falls into an unsatisfying and trance-like routine in New York City.
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Gabriel Vecchi, a professor of geosciences at Princeton University, said that forecasts of the storm's path have actually been "in relative agreement," but that the people find the remaining degree of uncertainty unsatisfying.
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Such ambiguities speak to what is both audacious and slightly unsatisfying about "Farming," given that Akinnuoye-Agbaje, who lived a version of Enitan's story, is uniquely poised to answer the questions his film poses.
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She doesn't understand or own her own sexuality, she isn't confident enough to tell her boring boyfriend that he's awful in bed, and her love life basically consists of unsatisfying hook-ups and mooning.
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Despite the unsatisfying nature of the ending of both contests, Saturday night did nothing to distinguish the hopes of having the title unification bout between both men which was mooted before those aforementioned fights.
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If at the final page it seems curiously unsatisfying, that is because readers and writers both long for resolution—and Harper Lee's story, like that of her proposed subject, stubbornly resists a neat ending.
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The show hasn't been the same since, with the plot inching toward an unsatisfying and predetermined end game in which all the best moments feel overwrought, telegraphed, and better done in graphic novel form.
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When I do, it's unsatisfying at the moment when I have cravings to tinker, but it always ends up more rewarding in hindsight, giving me the most realistic recreation of what was actually happening.
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But with them just platonically laying next to each other, each with their eyes open and looking into the distance as if they're forlorn and fearful of the future is really unsatisfying to me.
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Here is a sampling of my roster: But aside from my freak show of basic, terrible Pokémon — some Pokémon are much more common than others — my Pokémon Go experience has been buggy and unsatisfying.
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But McAdoo's return to Green Bay, where he served as an assistant to Packers Coach Mike McCarthy for eight seasons, proved unsatisfying, with the Packers (3-240) outgaining the Giants 241 yards to 231.
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Inside the walls, everything is pretty unsatisfying and increasingly decadent, like Rob Gronkowski Giving a Fox Sports 1 Reporter a Televised Lapdance decadent—decadent in the sense that decadent and decay share a root.
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Frankly, if Jon Snow had gone out like that, murdered by his Night's Watch brothers without ever doing all that much as lord commander, it would be an unsatisfying end to his character arc.
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Up until its intentionally unsatisfying ending, "High Risk" reads like a pretty wonderful romance, with a cocky astronaut and an endearingly geeky psychologist, with a high-pressure context and complex back stories for both.
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The sequel is able to buoy you as a reader in a way The Handmaid's Tale had no interest in doing, but sit with it and it's still slippery and at times satisfyingly unsatisfying.
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One of the men Goldstein follows, Jerad Whiteaker, cycles through a series of unsatisfying, low-paying jobs, finally settling in one that pays less than half his former wage and offers no health insurance.
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The game leaves them hanging in a way that ought to seem unsatisfying, but it has actually stuck with me for years, simply because Remember Me doesn't spell out how to feel about them.
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The actual exchange didn't seem all that dramatic or necessarily damaging, but the unsatisfying nature of the answer essentially guarantees that the question will keep being asked as long as Trump is a candidate.
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I'm not saying the show is unsatisfying or anything like that; it's good for it to be exploring lots of thematic territory, and the more it sketches out its world, the more immersive it becomes.
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"It was totally unsatisfying," Weldon McDavid told Dateline's Andrea Canning about his affair with 45-year-old Diana Lovejoy, who was also convicted of conspiracy and attempted murder of her now ex-husband Greg Mulvihill.
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In an exhibition that presents us with a myriad of complex problems around the world, smacking a picture of Bashar al-Assad in the mouth may all be a little too neat and, ultimately, unsatisfying.
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When I started doing academic research on both the spread of nuclear weapons and nuclear doctrines in different countries, I really came to view that the way we talk about international relations is really unsatisfying.
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Well, today Rick is no longer with either the nonexistent Motorola or Lenovo, having returned to Google, we've got a set of unsatisfying new Moto G models to talk about, and I'm unparking my keyboard.
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Adomako Aman, the New York City-based director of the 2016 indie documentary Dancing in the Dark, was inspired to create his film after a series of unsatisfying romantic relationships that developed within club spaces.
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Here, Aman shares how years of his own history of unsatisfying and confusing relationships within club spaces informed the documentary—and how making the film made him a more empathetic member of the LGBTQ+ community.
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While I found the game's melodramatic premise engrossing, the lackluster ending I received felt unsatisfying, especially given pre-release commercials in Japan had featured interviews with real couples, asking their thoughts on love and marriage.
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But looked at another way, it's actually one of the most straightforward stories in the Front Mission series, to the point that it feels somewhat unsatisfying in comparison to a game like Front Mission 2.
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The thoroughly unsatisfying outcome for many on Capitol Hill could provide new impetus for Mr. Lee's plan, which would require Congress to approve any president's emergency declaration — or it will automatically terminate after 30 days.
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The year before, Dylan had returned to the road for the first time in nearly a decade, accompanied by the Band for a series of concerts that broke ticket-sales records but proved musically unsatisfying.
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In Vox's round table wrap-up of Stranger Things 2, we dissected how unsatisfying the season's treatment of women was, from Nancy's largely token side plot to the unnecessary jealousy subthread between El and Max.
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Udashkin got the idea for his start-up when, after a brief and largely unsatisfying stint as a lawyer in New York, he worked for a couple of years as an international director for ALDO Shoes.
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Boys learn not to worry about girls' pleasure, and when girls and women have sexual encounters that don't feel good — whether they're just unsatisfying or actively abusive — they're primed to accept that's just how sex is.
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An ending voiceover from Jekyll and Jenny suggests he's become some kind of wandering hero who might show up to save their bacon later in the franchise, but the writers leave it all undefined and unsatisfying.
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But as is the case in the rest of the show, only Aziraphale and Crowley get real development as they navigate unsatisfying jobs, the absurdity of God's ineffable plan, and the problems caused by moral absolutism.
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Most unsatisfying, perhaps, is that Mr Kenyon offers little to explain why Africa produced the thugs it did—a criticism one would not level, for example, at Martin Meredith's still extraordinary history, "The State of Africa".
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Mr. Schappeit tried the Fantino with two different dishes: a wild mushroom fettuccine, which was a pairing that he seemed to find puzzling and unsatisfying, and a mushroom-and-sausage pizza, which seemed to work well.
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Still, even as a season one skeptic who quickly grew tired of the show's dependence on interlocking (and ultimately unsatisfying) puzzles, I'll admit that "Journey Into Night" gave me more to like than I was expecting.
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"Now, a public option for just the individual market would likely be unsatisfying to single payer supporters, providing no relief from health care costs for the much larger number of people with employer coverage," Levitt said.
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Narrative ellipses and a slew of visual clichés — like vague shapes, ghostly footprints and disorienting flashes of light — make "Mary" (the name shared by the ship and the couple's younger daughter) a particularly unsatisfying possession yarn.
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But while It Chapter Two brings the story to an unsatisfying close, the It movies taken as a whole deserve credit for their ambition and for trying to capture one of King's best books in full.
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As with literary theory, the hard problem with the teaching of reading may continue to be how to eradicate old, unsatisfying, jargon-bound approaches once a new generation has already begun teaching them to the next.
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It was a slow build, and it would have been fair to worry that WWE's handling of Nakamura (leashing him to some of the worst signature taunts in the promotion) would make his win feel unsatisfying.
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Expecting people like Meyers (who came up through SNL, just like Franken) and Colbert (who worked with C.K. early in his career) to roast their fellow comedians who crossed boundaries has been an ultimately unsatisfying exercise.
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LG's G6 is unsatisfying to use for a similar reason: its fingerprint reader, also on the back, is quite tiny and unintuitive to reach, slowing down an action that I perform probably a hundred times per day.
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"For all the women" made its belated debut earlier this month in London, staged by Jo McInnes, and the reviews from there suggest a production that was very different in its directorial approach — but also equally unsatisfying.
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The developers have completely stripped out its difficult and unsatisfying gunplay, explaining that the city's weapons are now all biometrically coded to their owners, but Faith will still have to fight her share of private security forces.
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The Lightning allowed six goals in each of the last two games of an ultimately unsatisfying homestand (23-2-1) while Philadelphia posted only one victory in the last eight contests after winning 10 in a row.
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For a movie that promises an "epic journey" to explore a family's "long-buried suffering," it's strangely unsatisfying, and eventually wearisome, to find that this clan is deeply troubled perhaps only in the eyes of its filmmaker.
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Regrettably, Mueller's effort fails to fully reaffirm this, and Barr's meticulously fair-minded handling of difficult questions of access will be much needed in the near term — but fairness in access cannot hide an unsatisfying underlying review.
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Ligon's novel strives to portray the complexities of love and morality, but too often those complexities are spelled out in unsatisfying and unrealistic ways, leaving us with a straightforward crime story we suspect it wanted to transcend.
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Not helping matters is a largely unsatisfying storytelling in the game's first half, which has A.R.I.D. hijacking three other AIs—butler, pleasure bot, drone—and trying to convince them to act outside their programming and help out.
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This time, two senior staffers informed me that current protocol dictated that constituents petition their doctors for tests, an unsatisfying piece of advice that suggested the state government was passing the buck back down to lower echelons.
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Negative fan sentiment—mostly about the movie being overcrowded with characters, forced (sorry) full of Easter eggs, and emotionally unsatisfying—was at a steady digital murmur until an incendiary Reddit post went viral on January 2, 2020.
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Lighter skinned celebrities like Beyoncé, Rihanna, Lil Kim, and Nicki Minaj have been called out online over images that seem drastically lighter than their actual complexion, but their responses (or lack thereof) have been unsatisfying at best.
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Instead of ending on this unsatisfying epistemological conundrum, I leave you with this excerpt from a 2013 LA Weekly profile of Spiegel:The family enjoyed a $2 million house in Pacific Palisades, undertaking a $1 million remodel in 2000.
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Shrink a keyboard too much in your quest to make a laptop thin and light, and you'll inevitably get complaints from people that their fingers are cramped, or that they land on each key with an unsatisfying thud.
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All of which has made CEO Mark Zuckerberg's arguments that Facebook could not have influenced the election unsatisfying: 44 percent of Americans get their news from Facebook, and Zuckerberg previously promoted the company's efforts to spur populist uprisings.
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"No-No Boy" explores the deep sense of alienation Japanese-Americans experienced after the war: the displacement; the confusing, unsatisfying homecoming; the unspoken humiliation of having been "evacuated"; the anger and frustration of being treated as an enemy.
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The proximate cause in each instance has been wars with unsatisfying outcomes – World War I, Vietnam, and President Bush's ill-conceived war of choice in Iraq that opened the floodgates of extremism and sectarianism across the Middle East.
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Mueller's answer appears to be a resounding and wholly unsatisfying "maybe" that simultaneously acts as both a Sword of Damocles over President Donald Trump and the electorate's belief in the notion that no one is above the law.
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That may mean we need to endure him for longer, but letting the Trump presidency off the hook by either of the above expedients would be profoundly unsatisfying and damaging to the country and the rule of law.
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In Arnold's Oscar-winning short film, Zoe (Natalie Press, who went on to star with Emily Blunt in My Summer of Love) is a single mother of four whose means are dwindling, and for whom life is deeply unsatisfying.
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Yet even she gets lost at times amid the maelstrom of events swirling around her, and while the script brings the pieces together, the ending feels rushed and unsatisfying after all the meticulous "Ocean's"-movie-style planning and buildup.
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Sure, burger size may matter when it&aposs the difference between a filling meal and an unsatisfying one, but there definitely is such a thing as "too big" when it comes to America&aposs favorite meal-in-a-bun.
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I wish that she had shown us a different way, one that questions our unsatisfying, hypercompetitive exaltation of capital and clout and promotes fulfilling relationships with other humans, other species, and with the hurt and triumphant parts of ourselves.
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Hood's heavy-twang rock isn't a natural fit for the kind of subtle groove-building that Jones specializes in, and after a few unsatisfying takes, Hood and his band mates gathered at the B-3, expecting to be fired.
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The insurmountable problem with Little Women — the one that's had its fans in fits ever since its second volume was published in 1869, that every Little Women adaptation wrestles with — is that its climactic marriages are so profoundly unsatisfying.
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Walton ordered the "ex parte" exchange even though the answers the judge would get from it would likely be unsatisfying, apparently because the Justice Department does not believe it is obligated to explain its decision-making to the judge.
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After the unruliness of the House health care debate, which dragged out for months and resulted in an awkward, unsatisfying final product, the Senate sought a better way to fulfill the Republican campaign promise to repeal and replace Obamacare.
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Instead, the stars (Nicolas Cage in a gloriously demented performance, and Selma Blair matching him beat for beat) take a moment to look back at how their ungrateful, annoying kids have stolen their youthful coolness and replaced it with unsatisfying adulthood.
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As unsatisfying as it is as a fan to see a game impacted by a replay ruling on double play that never would have been turned, it's certainly worse as a manager to lose a game on such a technicality.
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If it's possible to be unsatisfying in a satisfying way, Under the Silver Lake has nailed it: While Sam does find some of the answers he's looking for in the end, the question of what it was all for hangs indefinitely.
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I spent a good chunk of my early time with the game last year following something known as the "Path of Atlas," which was a vague and ultimately unsatisfying quest line about searching for a greater purpose in the cosmos.
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And every response to these super-old problems — rumors, lies, abuse — tends to be thin and unsatisfying, almost alien, from the endless vow to improve transparency to Facebook's intention to have 2 billion people decide the trustworthiness of news outlets.
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Bottom line: A direct focus on creating a redundant, distributed, and resilient political system built on localism, federalism, transparency, and separated, limited powers is the best course through the tumults of globalization, a flattened media environment, and unsatisfying economic outcomes.
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And a review by the Kaiser Family Foundation in 2014 of a large body of research comparing the quality of care provided by Advantage plans and traditional Medicare concluded that the available research is unsatisfying, and that better evidence is needed.
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" At a meeting of the Group of Seven last week, Trump declined to pledge his support for the climate pact, breaking from the group's other leaders and irking some, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who called climate talks with Trump "unsatisfying.
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I would say that if we were going to kill Brenner … as an audience member watching the show, if that was his death, that would be very unsatisfying to me — when the monster jumps on him and we cut away.
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To recap: The episode revolved around the "Star Fleet" (read Star Trek) superfan Robert Daly escaping his unsatisfying work life through a virtual reality game of his own making that allows him to play as captain of his own crew.
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Adherence to gender conventions may create frequent but unsatisfying sex when it makes husbands feel compelled to push for sex and wives to perform it as a "duty" -- just one more chore to be added to an ever-growing list.
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This means that those old idle speculations now have a concrete and unsatisfying answer—everyone knows that this roster is nowhere near talented, cohesive, or driven enough to compete for a championship, which leaves Forman and Paxson without plausible deniability.
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The twist is that she can't seem to make up her mind whether to honor her commitment to him and live a life she claims is tepid and unsatisfying or take a chance on a real and lasting love with me.
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There's a morbid fascination inherent to documentaries like "A Gray State," which is engrossing for the reasons it's also unsatisfying: As Adam Shambour, a friend of Mr. Crowley's, says, it's a mystery that answers all the major questions except "Why?"
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And by writing intelligently about offbeat topics — from a locket meant to hold "mad money" to a deeply unsatisfying West Elm couch called "the Peggy" — The Awl and its sister sites did their best to live up to the motto.
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As a way to determine the winner of a crucial match, it almost always feels unsatisfying and random, more of a lottery than a true test of the teams' skill, endurance and tactics over 90 — or 120 — minutes of open play.
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Similarly, a long, elliptical scene of Sarah Palmer watching a glitchy, looping video of an old boxing match (possibly featuring "Battling Bud" Mullins?) leaves the impression of an old world slipping away, which can only be retained in unsatisfying, incomplete fragments.
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They announced so-so T-shirts, a $25 plush 11-inch model that barely resembled The Child, an equally cheap-looking crib version, an oddly unsatisfying, plastic-y cartoonish Hasbro Black Series model, and, of course, the inevitable Funko Pop.
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It's often said that smaller businesses get the short end of the stick when it comes to technology solutions: they are more high-maintenance than consumers, but not as lucrative as larger enterprises, leaving them caught somewhere in an unsatisfying middle.
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My resolution and why I chose it: To find meaningful freelance work so that I can shed the unpalatable drudgery of being cooped up in the same place all day, every day, doing unsatisfying work in the name of money.
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For the amount of money it takes to play the game continuously and make a minuscule and perpetually unsatisfying amount of progress toward finishing your never-ending to-do list, you could buy yourself an overpriced meal in Los Angeles.
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It was a very unsatisfying hunt for an answer, but there's a clear takeaway: If you have the Amazon Prime Chase card and you're worried about Amazon getting more data about you, only use it to buy things from Amazon and Whole Foods.
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Like the rest of the fantasy epic's final season, it was divisive; some fans found it to be an enthralling example of the series at its best, while others found it to be an unsatisfying and abrupt ending to a major storyline.
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"I would say that if we were going to kill Brenner…as an audience member watching the show, if that was his death, that would be very unsatisfying to me — when the monster jumps on him and we cut away," Duffer said.
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Whether it's the Daily Mail's 3,500-word investigation in 2008, naming the artist as "former public schoolboy" Robin Gunningham, or CityLab's vague 2015 argument that Banksy is a woman, most of the headline-making thinkpieces theorizing about his (or her) identity are unsatisfying.
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Ensconced in a longtime but clearly unsatisfying relationship to David (Alex Macqueen), Sally (Christina Shepherd) has a chance encounter with Emma (writer-director-producer Julia Davis, whose credits include the original British version of HBO's "Camping"), and is instantly drawn to her.
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The first season of "Serial" naïvely launched before having resolved its central mystery — hoping, perhaps, that listeners would call in with the clues to unlock it in time for the taping of its final episodes — and it ended with an unsatisfying shrug.
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Yet for all the earned drama of that transgression, the present-day moments of the memoir — her post-divorce courtship with a secular Jewish lover, a rendezvous in Costa Rica — feel comparatively saccharine and unsatisfying, making the memoir's scattershot, nonchronological structure frustrating.
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I am talking, of course, of the writer Michael Wolff, who with "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House" has delivered an altogether fitting, if ultimately unsatisfying, book on the chaotic first nine months of President Trump, another media-obsessed Manhattanite.
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"You're now equipped with enough game theory to know that the word 'fair' should send up red flags and set off warning bells," Raeburn and Zollman write, as they work through various models for making collective decisions, most of which they find unsatisfying.
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But it's all the more urgent now, as we trudge into an impeachment process that will almost certainly lead to an unsatisfying conclusion in which no one version of the truth is likely to come out and be held by the public.
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But there's something unsatisfying about this story and many like it, which is simply this: The Peculiars' special powers set them apart from others, but they also help them do truly extraordinary things — stuff that ordinary normal people can't do at all.
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This has mostly been an enervating and unsatisfying season, a year of glaring problems and multiple backwardness and righteous denial; this could be said of most recent NFL seasons, although there has been something flat and fun-free about this one even by those standards.
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Picking up a year after the unsatisfying sign-off to its predecessor, "The Good Wife" is ostensibly built around the characters portrayed by Christine Baranski and Cush Jumbo, but quickly moves to establish a third lead, Maia, played by "Game of Thrones'" Rose Leslie.
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Given the inchoate nature of the subject, the book works as an overview, although it fails to present an opinionated narrative on where autonomy and the military should go in the future, an unsatisfying gap given the author's extensive and unique background on the subject.
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National security legal scholar Daniel Marcus notes in a 2011 legal brief that it was the unsatisfying results of the joint House-Senate 9/11 committee that led 9/11 victims' families to pressure Congress to create an independent commission focused on the terror attacks.
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But while I hoped that Hocus Pocus would be less Grinch-like and more teen musical heaven, it felt more like an unsatisfying amalgamation of the two – there was not nearly enough singing, and I sympathized way more with the villains than the heroes.
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However, there is something unsatisfying about a plea for radical reform from someone who has recently spent a decade in a position of exceptional power: if your suggestions are so good, the reader might ask, then why did you not push for them yourself?
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They need to do the hard work of cultivating alienated portions of the electorate who view the political system with disdain, and are rightly suspicious of the Democratic establishment after eight unsatisfying years of Barack Obama and the catastrophe of the Hillary Clinton campaign.
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Yet, despite Allegri's protestations about how winning should never be undervalued, it was strangely unsatisfying, especially as it came four days after they were knocked out of the Champions League — the competition they really wanted to win — in the quarter-finals by Ajax Amsterdam.
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But it's a response that will almost certainly be unsatisfying to those who feel threatened by the resurgence of white nationalism in America, and for whom the issue feels less like a careful balancing of principles and more like a matter of life and death.
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Fetishism and masochism work directly into her choices, and so does the unsatisfying nature of her other relationships, with the callously entitled husband of her best friend and business partner, and with her ex-husband, who's moved on to date a beautiful yoga instructor.
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I used to be much better about cooking, but now that I no longer have to worry about breakfast and lunch, I've fallen into the bad habit of buying dinner multiple times a week and scrounging for unsatisfying meals the rest of the time.
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After Mr. Rosencrans had brief, unsatisfying stints in retailing, a friend referred him to Box Office Television, which was hoping to help movie theaters compete with television by offering closed-circuit programming, like live theater, and Harlem Globetrotter basketball and Notre Dame football games.
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"The Holocaust museum, if it stands for anything, stands for the idea that we should always act against genocide and that there's something forever wrong and unsatisfying about the idea that we can do nothing to alleviate radical evil," Mr. Wieseltier said in an interview.
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Although prosecutors laid out considerable evidence that the F.B.I. had gathered on the larger plot, F.B.I. agents generally found the outcome unsatisfying: Moussaoui was an erratic, possibly schizophrenic operative, who was marginalized by Qaeda plotters even before his arrest in Minnesota in August 2001.
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The "realism" mode works well with the ending's deliberately unsatisfying beats and moments — but it feels awkward when it's forced to stand next to Helen and Box vowing to bring down Ray (a scene that comes out of nowhere and isn't followed up on).
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The highly unsatisfying conclusion to her storyline indicates that either Melisandre and other Red Priestesses of the Lord of Light were all wrong, or that the showrunners are just chucking out this piece of Game of Thrones lore in favor of focusing on more popular characters.
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However, there is something unsatisfying about a plea for radical reform from a man who has recently spent a decade in a position of exceptional power: if your suggestions are so good, readers will find themselves asking, then why did you not push for them yourself?
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Jack Dorsey says it's time to rethink the fundamental dynamics of Twitter For most of the interview, Dorsey outlined steps that Twitter has taken to combat abuse and misinformation, but the TED's Chris Anderson explained why the company's critics sometimes find those steps so insufficient and unsatisfying.
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Since he announced his upcoming album "Views from the 6" (eventually Views) in July 2014, Drake has put out two ostensible "mixtapes" and another project's worth of loose singles, several of which he used to propel the most high-profile yet unsatisfying rap beef in years.
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Reverse chronologies might work well in fictions like Christopher Nolan's "Memento" or Harold Pinter's "Betrayal," where they are serving grander themes of the fragility of memory and the failures of fidelity, but they are an unsatisfying solution to the problem of how to structure a biography.
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The moon—Given the Moon's historical associations with some kind of divine feminine, it's no wonder that the modern wellness industry—which often targets female consumers whose experiences with mainstream medicine have been alienating and unsatisfying—commodified the shit out of li'l baby roundie in the 2010s.
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The appliances, rather than their hidden dioramas, are the real stars, as I found the interiors largely underwhelming: the experience of opening the fridges was like being really stoned and anticipating an entire pizza but receiving just one limp cucumber sandwich — it's nice, but ultimately unsatisfying.
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Peels (piths removed) went into two containers, to unburden themselves of essential oils in a two-week bath of either VG or PG. The VG batch came out much lighter and had an acrid, shoe-rubber taste for reasons unknown, while the PG batch was usable but unsatisfying.
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All of which leads to the very unsatisfying conclusion that a testosterone booster may be good for your health and lifespan, but we don't know enough to say for sure one way or another and no one will be handing down a smoking gun on the issue anytime soon.
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You learn: Threesomes are high drama but ultimately unsatisfying; that sex can be very good and very bad, and all the shades in between; and that although it is possible to like many "types" of person, you mostly just gravitate toward the same guys like a horny homing pigeon.
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Instead we travel from topic to topic in discrete, sardonic vignettes that culminate in pithy but unsatisfying kickers: a rueful jab at the "national symphony of commerce, the most authentic-sounding American music of all," or something about the orchestra on the Titanic playing as the ship went down.
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If you are safe and provided-for in this crisis and have felt any sort of peace in the quiet indoor life of the last weeks—in cooking beans instead of grabbing an unsatisfying burger or in innovating new ways to spend time with friends—hold onto it.
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Marty Byrde (Jason Bateman), a money manager enduring an unsatisfying routine in the Chicago suburbs with his wife (Laura Linney) and two children, finds his life turned on its head when he witnesses multiple murders at the hands of a drug lord for whom he has been laundering money.
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On Saturday, Ms. Merkel was unusually direct in discussing what she called unsatisfying talks on climate change, which is an important issue for many German voters and a hallmark topic for the chancellor, who first made her mark in the 1990s shepherding an international accord on the environment.
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My intent in constructing The Last Jedi was to bring it around to a point of satisfaction at the end, although in some ways because it was the second film in a trilogy — if you think about The Empire Strikes Back, that's unsatisfying specifically at the end as well.
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It was just one of many unsatisfying "revelations" in Rivera's breathlessly reported, shamelessly promoted Devil Worship: Exposing Satan's Underground, a sleazily overhyped fear-gumbo that attempted to bring together Charles Manson, Anton LaVey, heavy metal music, Rosemary's Baby, and a handful of rube-perpetrated murders, and weave them into ... well, something.
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Profile YANGZHOU, China — Zhou Haohui, the latest author to catch the wave of Chinese crime fiction crashing on international shores, had an unsatisfying job teaching engineering at a university outside of Beijing in 2007 when he began publishing — online — the novels that would earn him a cultlike following in China.
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Arya's first target "choked on his pigeon pie" back in Season 4, and while almost everyone in Westeros and the real world was rooting for his end (everyone except Cersei), the death felt unsatisfying since it wasn't directly at the hands of Arya or one of his other innumerable enemies.
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In the end, when looking at the substance of your life, it must be ultimately unsatisfying to realize you spent yours as a professional boogeyman, a mythic monster lingering on the edges of the fight world's imagination but never being allowed in to test others or yourself in the cold light of reality.
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That leaves us with a very unsatisfying conclusion: To see if the decades-long crime drop has started to reverse, we'll probably have to wait for a few more years of data from both the FBI and NCVS to see the long-term crime trends instead of focusing on just one year of data.
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It would be unpersuasive to argue, "Stopping runaway climate change requires federal interventions that I object to on the following abstract ideological grounds" over and over again; applying the same principles to other pressing questions—like whether we should reduce the rate of uninsurance, or provide poor children adequate nutrition—yields similarly unsatisfying opinions.
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The more politically engaged they become, the more they are likely to be required to make the kind of unsatisfying compromises they once decried, to join in the same ugly debates they once found so distasteful, and to reconcile themselves to the slow, even halting pace of democratic decision-making they once found so exasperating.
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It's frustratingly unsatisfying on a plot level, but it's so blatantly absurd that it loops right back around to being charming — like the time one of Pretty Little Liars' characters got locked into an empty school which transformed itself into a death trap and blared "ACT NORMAL, BITCH!" at her through the PA system.
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Everything, from the shell's CAD design to the motherboard's wiring, is available on GitHub for perusal or modification, and the modular nature of the internals means you can add a more powerful chipset or modify just about anything you find unsatisfying about the computer if you have the know-how or if Olimex or others offer compatible parts.
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The disorienting and thoroughly unsatisfying Cambridge Analytica saga is a preview of what trailing indicators of the collapse of the data boom might look like: revealing signs, evident years later, that something was rotten with these arrangements, arriving too late to be actionable but soon enough to foster resentment against companies and services on which we've come to depend.
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That leaves us with a very unsatisfying conclusion: To see if the decades-long crime drop has started to reverse, we'll probably have to wait for a few more years of data from both the FBI and NCVS to see the long-term crime trends instead of focusing on just one or two years of data.
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The MBTI's success is (to invoke another popular personality assessment device popular in the postwar period) something of a Rorschach blot: On one hand, you can see its enduring popularity as an inevitable end point of a deeply human urge to find comfort or purpose in a world often marked by injustice, failed relationships, and unsatisfying jobs.
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Some ESPN executives believe the unsatisfying bundle of games scheduled for the network's showcase "Monday Night Football" window has been payback for its reporting on the league; N.F.L. executives frequently complained about criticism of their league on ESPN programs and about the wall-to-wall coverage devoted to stories unfavorable to the N.F.L., according to the SportsBusiness Journal.
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The plot is fairly straightforward: After dropping off the hitchhiker, the truck driver (played by an actor also named Jinpa) takes the dead sheep to a monastery to have its soul blessed; he has preoccupied, unsatisfying sex with a lover; and then he searches for his hitchhiking namesake, hoping perhaps to stop him from committing murder.
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At this point, I'm not sure what the solution for Apple is: a launch later this week is unsatisfying, a quiet random launch untethered to another major product just highlights how late Apple is to the party, and tying it to this September's iPhone event would mean that Apple will have taken a full two years to ship a wireless charger.
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After their unsatisfying apology prompted a fan petition, the show's production company Left Bank Pictures released a statement to the Daily Mail that expressed their commitment to "the fight for fair pay" and indicated that Foy would receive £200,000 in back pay, a gesture that will hopefully set a material precedent for fairly compensating women in entertainment and other industries.
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The rules reflected that, and as it turned into a game primarily about high fantasy and fireball flinging, the rules reflected that; anyone old enough to have played the original D&D can tell you it would be highly unsatisfying to play the game as it's currently envisioned with the old system, because the rules don't really support that sort of play.
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" After a quick summary of the free will defense ("an unsatisfying answer," he conceded), he threw up his hands and retreated to faith as its own answer: "If you're just going to complain every time things go wrong, where's God, where's God, but then the moment that goes away you're fine, I guess I don't take the question seriously at that point.
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Teaching, named by Sigmund Freud one of the "impossible professions" — "in which one can be sure beforehand of achieving unsatisfying results" — has long been treated within higher education as a lesser realm than scholarship, its intimate rewards (though appreciated by more professors than Berlinerblau suggests) too closely associated with other kinds of caring labor for it to command prestige on its own.
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This justification by way of superiority might sound a bit unsatisfying to MacBook buyers who had to hear this exact same reasoning when Apple wasted space on the Thunderbolt 2 ports that were ultimately only adopted by a few high-end peripherals, but this time around Apple isn't the only one leading the USB-C/Thunderbolt 3 revolution so this will likely see a different outcome.
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" What Young finds unsatisfying isn't that we fall for bunk, but that we're so ready to congratulate ourselves for seeing through it afterward, leaving the deeper implications on the table, like the unbearable continuities between Barnum's "racial grotesques" and the phony black inmate conjured up in James Frey's imaginary jail experience: "He calls himself Porterhouse because he says he's big and juicy like a fine ass steak.
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Perhaps the showrunners want to save all of their heartbreaking character deaths for the final season to really twist the knife as we enter the home stretch, but to have made it through two huge clashes without losing any of the characters we care about (sorry not sorry Thoros) is both unsatisfying and frankly unrealistic, given how gleefully the show used to dispatch its heroes and villains when we least expected it.
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If the country elects such a person, there is a distinct possibility that American democracy will discover that inch-by-inch progress on legislation happens after vigorous wrangling, which eventually gets to a deeply unsatisfying resolution that leaves almost everybody in a grumpy mood, and sort of works, but not all that well and yet well enough to get us to the next fight—which, if you will recall, is exactly what the Founding Fathers sketched out on paper in 1787.
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Anita Hill has confirmed that former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenHarry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Warren offers plan to repeal 1994 crime law authored by Biden Panel: Jill Biden's campaign message MORE reached out to her by phone earlier this month to express regret over how she was treated during her 85033 testimony regarding Justice Clarence Thomas, but said she found the conversation unsatisfying and wouldn't describe his comments as an apology.
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The idea of the imperfect reaching for the sublime is carried through two very different films, "Tlatelolco Clash" (2011) — in which a succession of anonymous men and women play portions of the Clash's "Should I Stay or Should I Go" (1982) in unsatisfying, stop-and-start snippets on a hand-pumped street organ, until the song finally emerges in its infectious entirety — and "Dammi i Colori" (2003), a sort of anti-travelogue of Sala's crumbling hometown of Tirana, narrated by its mayor, Edi Rama, who knows the artist from their schooldays.
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But then he gets surprisingly empathetic: "You might have been up all night for a week with a sick child, gotten up early to get the other onto the school bus before you hit the road for that rush-hour commute to work, gone to battle with your co-workers and boss for eight hours with nothing but a 15-minute break to swallow an inadequate, unsatisfying lunch, and then hit the rush hour traffic back home to start your second job-the feeding and care of your kids," he writes.
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Kaitlyn: So Instagram stories, you don't get a notification saying, "Post to your Instagram story" and you certainly don't get one saying, "Come back and rewatch your own Instagram story five times and scroll through the list of people who watched it and see how many people finished it, and see if the person that you have a crush on watched it, and whatever," so is that an example of an internal trigger, and if so, what do you think has trained us to do something like that, which is so odd and mostly unsatisfying?
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Indeed, it is an unsatisfying story precisely because of the many loose ends and unfinished fights; but the arc of its history is a case study in how movements towards justice that cut out or silence a marginalized minority are doomed to fail — whether that is the National Organization for Women's sidelining of lesbians, the Castro's lack of a home for black gay men, the inability of ACT UP and the Names Project to get along, and the underreported contributions of trans people of color to the ongoing movement.
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