Sentence examples for desperately unreliable from inspiring English sources

In the febrile atmosphere after the mutilation of the Herms an anti-democratic conspiracy was feared, and the young, charismatic, handsome, brilliant and desperately unreliable aristocrat and military commander Alcibiades was blamed.

Newly resident in her latest Belfast boarding house, Judith Hearne loses herself in alcohol and fantasy, pinning her fading romantic hopes on the dashing, desperately unreliable figure of James Madden.

If what we have here is an unreliable narrator who desperately needs to burst out of the closet, then I stand corrected, but nothing in the prose evidences that.

You could choose Niger or Ethiopia or another country that desperately needs the jobs, but they're difficult and expensive and unreliable places to do business.

Now it's become simply a book with an unreliable narrator – fine for the prologue, even when it's done for 16 pages in filthy eye-bending italics – but desperately wearing when it persists throughout.

Power is unreliable.

It is also unreliable.

But polls are unreliable.

Utilities may be unreliable.

Some are also unreliable.

We were desperately polite but desperately mismatched.