Sentence examples similar to a unhelpful from inspiring English sources

This may be an example of an unhelpful insight garnered by a strong association between triangles and angles adding up to 180°.

It is an unhelpful image: a Trojan horse, after all, is used to invade a walled city that is under siege.

Instead, she got a dose of an unhelpful germ: campylobacter, easily killed by pasteurization.

Officials played down the reports and Mr. Venizelos described them in a statement as an unhelpful distraction from the central task of sticking to Greece's E.U.-I.M.F.

For others, the decision was an irrelevant distraction, an unhelpful bit of hysteria that should not be inflamed.

This is an unhelpful oversimplification of a highly complex area that we're only just starting to understand.

People under stress really are dealing with an unhelpful bureaucrat in a remote call centre who can't take decisions.

This was better than two no-trump, in the absence of a club stopper, or an unhelpful two spades.

The President's efforts in the face of, to put it mildly, an unhelpful Congress and a set of long-standing and complex issues should be applauded.

Corrupt and brutal unions, an unhelpful bureaucracy and a clubby business culture all conspire against enterprising young people.

Arguably, since economics traditionally separated goods (things) from services (actions), this provisioning category is an unhelpful blurring of a long-understood distinction.