Sentence examples for rather unsteady from inspiring English sources

The government's standing on the Home Office issues (crime, immigration, homeland security) has been looking rather unsteady in recent weeks.

Bertie, as Elizabeth calls her husband (he's the same fellow played by Colin Firth in "The King's Speech"), is a rather unsteady young man, pleasant but bewildered.

Very near this border outpost, on a recent Saturday night, a small band of Dickensian characters — two tall, pale women with thin, reddish hair; one short, stout, bustling brunette; and four men, rather unsteady on their feet — set up a portable loud-speaker system on the sidewalk and began to preach.

Mr. Calleja has one of the loveliest voices in opera right now, pure, sunny and strong, but with a ringing vibration — even the slightest quaver — at its core that comes across as vulnerable rather than unsteady.

Under most natural circumstances, overland flow does not occur in the form of unconcentrated sheet flow as described by traditional concepts, but rather as unsteady non-uniform concentrated flow in small rivulets (Dunne, 1978; Beven et al., 2000; Wagener et al., 2004) or, in the case of runoff on agricultural land, as interrill flow (Morgan, 1980).

At first it shows itself by a halting, or rather an unsteady movement of one of the legs, which the patient drags.

These data suggest that eskers may record unsteady, rather than steady flows in a drainage network and so the assumptions often made when using eskers to inform hydrological components of ice sheet models may not be applicable to all ice sheet settings.

Right now the Nets seem young and unsteady, and rather two-dimensional without the injured Keith Van Horn.

Most disappointing of all was trying to work the Touchless for Windows app: using my unsteady fingers rather than my trusty mouse to scroll, drag and click around Windows 7 was like trying to type on a keyboard with my elbows: cumbersome, imprecise and so frustrating that I wanted to rip my arm off by the end of it.

However, the limits of the methodology have been found to be rather restrictive for highly nonlinear separated flows, in particular for the airfoil unsteady transonic flow buffet case.

Bergman used this theatricality to present the experience of remembering and perhaps to unsteady a cinema audience familiar only with things as they look, rather than as they can be felt.