Iraq, Afghanistan and even Libya have hardly been unqualified successes for Western intervention.
Second, a U-turn by the Fed on interest rates would hardly be unqualified good news.
But not being able to blend in with one's fellow actors is hardly an unqualified asset.
This blending of a new visual method, unfamiliar to many eyes, with the stream of verbal acidity is hardly an unqualified success, but the ambition is an honorable one, and the unhappy land that the film reveals is not one that Nichols cared to revisit, on the big screen, for too long.
Hardly an unqualified rave ("probably part of the discomfort that people feel about 'Bonnie and Clyde' grows out of its compromises and its failures," she noted), Kael's article instead made a sustained argument for the film's status as a cultural event.
As a railway engineer he was "hardly an unqualified success"; but his administrative and persuasive skills were considerable, as is shown in his planning of railways in Northwest England, and in the sanitary reform and water supply of Lancaster.
"Their record of diversification outside high street electrical shops has hardly been an unqualified success.
Sadly though, youth unemployment is hardly limited to unqualified school leavers: it now extends to many of Britain's brightest and most able young people.
That big-time college athletics in this country, and football especially, is a sinkhole of corruption and hypocrisy, turning the academically unqualified into professional-athletes-in-disguise, is hardly news of course.
Another, cited in 2009 by the bank's primary regulator, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), as being unqualified, was promoted.HSBC's compliance problems were hardly an internal secret.
