Sentence examples for Unintuitive from inspiring English sources

This holiday taught me that flatpacks produced by anyone other than Ikea tend to be awkward and unintuitive.

Other testers noted that there was a noticeable time lag in trying to operate the device's tiny touch screen, and that the menus were unintuitive.

The explainers steer mercifully clear of analogies, which often serve to obfuscate rather than illuminate the unintuitive world of quantum physics.

Yet cricket is a game that can be unintuitive for anyone not brought up playing it, and even coaching some of the basics—holding the bat in an upright position rather than á la baseball, bowling with a straight arm rather than throwing, and maintaining concentration during the long hours in the field—has proved a challenge.

Most of these devices sound too fiddly and unintuitive to be something that Apple would create itself, but the iPhone-maker doesn't need to be directly involved.

When you know what you're looking for, voice search on the Fire TV makes for an invitingly speedy option – especially given how unintuitive streaming service interfaces tend to be.

But even though the Windows Phone has been a flop, the truth is that, by 2010, Nokia had already introduced too many disappointing phones, and its operating system had already proven too buggy, clunky, and unintuitive to win consumers over.

"Gay" is too male, "gay and lesbian" insufficiently inclusive, L.G.B.T. unwieldy and unintuitive.

The report said that the firm was told by retailers that the returns were largely prompted by the "unintuitive nature of the user interface, the maps app and the lack of apps — issues that become apparent once consumers have had several days to use the device".

Yet to see one another as reason-givers doesn't mean we must perceive one another as emotionless, unintuitive robots.

Lawrence Kaplan Ardsley, N.Y., May 19 , 2009• To the Editor: David Brooks relates the not-unintuitive findings that the most effective chief executives are focused, methodical and a little dull.