Sentence examples for quite unhelpful from inspiring English sources

In other cases, it seems to be doing something quite unhelpful, at least, in a modern context.

"The issue about numbers has become quite unhelpful and sets in the minds of community members that the measure of success is how many police officers are permanently deployed," he said.

"A lot of what we learned is common sense, but it's things that wouldn't occur to you on your own," says Eve. "I've learned that grabbing someone's arm is actually quite unhelpful; and that rather than automatically assuming a blind passenger wants assistance, we should ask them what they need.

"And it's quite unhelpful to have interjections at the 11th hour.

Obiwannabe suggests we ask ourselves what the nature of rain is—"According to the lyrics of certain shoegazing philosophies it's 'Always falling on me', but that is quite unhelpful.

Perhaps they [health visitors] are knowledgeable, perhaps they just don't have the time to give…when I was first weaning X [son] you know like what proportions of meat and veg I should be giving him…that's not something that I know and they were quite unhelpful to be honest (deprived neighbourhood - mother 17: Child aged 1 year).

Burns, who had kicked quite beautifully in unhelpful conditions in the opening 40, did not have so much as a single shot at the sticks in the second stanza.

His remarks were condemned by British politicians, with David Cameron labelling the comments "divisive, unhelpful and quite simply wrong".

Mr Cameron said he "completely disagrees" with Mr Trump's views and described them as "divisive, unhelpful and quite simply wrong".

His spokeswoman said the Prime Minister "completely disagrees" with Mr Trump's views and described them as "divisive, unhelpful and quite simply wrong".

Cameron said through a spokeswoman that he "completely disagrees" with Trump's comments, which he regards as "divisive, unhelpful and quite simply wrong".