Sentence examples for look wasteful from inspiring English sources

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He adds, "Given this shock-and-awe business plan, movies on film stock look wasteful".

Those vast cash reserves provided valuable insurance in the aftermath of the financial crisis, but they have started to look wasteful.

Between the never-ending direct-mail offers bombarding us with TV and online ads and loyalty programs, credit card issuers look wasteful; their customer acquisition costs typically run into the hundreds of dollars.

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At that point, while some of it looked wasteful and bubbly (fiber optic to nowhere), many hypothesized that the investments in computers and the Internet ought to show up as faster productivity growth.

What looks wasteful in retrospect may have looked like a live-saving intervention at the time it was made — and this is as true for expensive chemotherapies that fail to save a life as it is for expensive tests that don't reveal disease.

But Muchhala, a postdoc in the lab of pollination biologist James Thomson, thought it was the hummingbirds that looked wasteful.

Still, stupid as it looks, wasteful and mundanely decadent as it may be, I really fucking want one.

The view of the car just sitting there, the exhaust spewing light grayish fumes into the air, looked wasteful and dirty.

"Do you feel wasteful?

The Wii uses considerably less electricity than the PS3 or Xbox 360 and makes the PC look as wasteful as a Hummer with a hole in its gas tank.

Then it looks like wasteful pork-barrel spending on social programmes and corrupt politicians.

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