Sentence examples for but rather unhelpful from inspiring English sources

I've been quiet on Iraq lately because it's so tempting -- but rather unhelpful -- to rant one more time about President Bush's folly in launching this war.

Now the porch light on my home in Seattle goes on every night before 5 p.m. — great when it gets dark during the region's bleak winter months but rather unhelpful during the summer when it stays light until well after 9 p.m.

But all these rather unhelpful interventions did not stop Mr Miliband from welcoming Labour's most successful leader this occasion however, Mr Miliband appears to be grateful of his former leader's intervention:  When a serious figure like Tony Blair warns UK national interest is threatened by a Tory 2nd term, people from all parties should take note.

I remember looking up a definition of the phrase 'unconventional hydrocarbons' a few years ago and getting the rather unhelpful '…hydrocarbons produced in a way that is not conventional…' but in fact this isn't so far from the truth.

There is no pat answer, at least none that go beyond the sound if rather unhelpful advice "Drink what you like".

In the end, science publishers, combined with eminence- and applicability-obsessed funding agencies, have created a rather unhelpful climate for dishonest and greedy scientists to thrive in.

She glides into a booth, tucks her Bebe shopping bag under the table, orders a cappuccino -- no food today; she is staying slim for some forthcoming television appearances -- and fixes you with a humorless, rather unhelpful stare.

When young policymakers of Merkel's Christian Democrat and Liberal coalition in a newspaper article asked Greece to sell a few of their islands to solve the problem, it was only the beginning of a series of rather unhelpful proposals.

Some people with mental health difficulties frame this defensively, seeing the celebrity with mental health difficulties as an "inspirational figure" who is held up as a rather unhelpful role model, an example of the way in which people with mental health difficulties can overcome their impairments and be successful.

At any rate, the rest of the stories dispense with this rather unhelpful model and find, each in its own way, a much more flexible balance of the realistic and the allegorical, the mundane and the operatic, that frees up Englander's old playfulness while enabling him to articulate a new seriousness and breadth of vision.

Any attempt to resurrect the mammoth faces an elephantine gauntlet of challenges, including the DNA-shattering effects of frost and time, and the rather unhelpful reproductive tract of the eventual surrogate parent the elephant.