unsatisfactoriness

• - I have sometimes thought there could not be a stronger testimony in favor of religion or against temporal enjoyments, even the most rational and manly, than for men who occupy the most honorable and gainful departments and [who] are rising in reputation and wealth, publicly to declare their unsatisfactoriness by becoming fervent advocates in the cause of Christ; and I wish you may give in your evidence in this way. 73 72. —  Comic Book Movie
• Insights of wisdom … enable us to see the hollowness and fundamental unsatisfactoriness of a life devoted primarily to the pursuit of material ends, to the neglect of the spiritual. —  MyLinkVault Newest Links
• Any gain in the cheapness of the editions produced would be more than offset by their unsatisfactoriness: they would, in the majority of cases, be untrustworthy as to accuracy or completeness, and be hastily and flimsily manufactured. —  International Copyright Considered in some of its Relations to Ethics and Political Economy
• "But that's what makes the anti-Semitic chapters so unsatisfactory We all felt their unsatisfactoriness, if we could not analyze it so cleverly," said the hostess We all felt it," said Mrs. Montagu Samuels Yes, that's it," said Sidney, blandly. —  Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People
• It means the deep, subtle sense of unsatisfactoriness which is a part of every mental treadmill. —  doggdot.us

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