Sentence examples for pretty unhelpful from inspiring English sources

"I shared some pretty unhelpful and funny suggestions for what she should say.

Once your false positives begin to dwarf your true positives, a positive result from the test becomes pretty unhelpful.

Democrats are having a field day pointing out the problems, but their suggestions for what to do next are pretty unhelpful.

ED Oh, I completely agree that making generalised gender assumptions about how women are and how men are, as if they're some giant single-cell globule, is pretty unhelpful.

That reputation is a pretty unhelpful prism through which to view the film, attaching expectations of concrete, capital-I Importance even to Welles's most puckish instincts as a film-maker: once I had watched it as a film rather than a totem, the zest and verve and acrid humour of this precociously nonconformist "biopic" of a disguised William Randolph Hearst came far more silkily to the fore.

We now realise the situation has evolved in a pretty unhelpful way economically so we're going to take a different decision'," he said.

Several rail staff pushed their way through the tunnel of passengers but they were all pretty rude and unhelpful when asked any questions.

On the other hand, to say to someone that "I think you're a very clever problem solver when you put your mind to it and we'll ignore the previous six months of math test fails" is pretty unrealistic and unhelpful!

Unhelpful advice He also blamed unhelpful government advice to watch the eclipse on television and "a pretty good amount of cynicism" in some parts of the London media from deterring some people from making the journey, including one weekend headline declaring the event a flop even as people were still heading for the region.

* Being the sensitive soul he is, no one should underestimate Conservative MP Rory Stewart's frustration at having to explain away unhelpful reports that he innocently suggested that some of his northern constituents were a "pretty primitive" bunch who held up their trousers with string.

That suddenly crystallised the concern – that my life was pretty much over – which had been lurking just beneath my consciousness for months, quietly fuelled by all those unhelpful remarks.