Otherwise, a story that seems so close to having a satisfactory ending will degenerate into just another unending New York City squabble.
But "Methuselah's Children" deals with the social questions raised by longevity in a way that could seem satisfactory only to people who were not actually interested in the social questions to begin with.
Only the Bayesian interpretation that posterior odds for association are 10 1 seems satisfactory.
None of these seems satisfactory, and Dupont-Sommer has suggested that Second Isaiah may date from a period as late as that which is dealt with in the literature of the sect.
The reason this is such a difficult issue is that, although there are two theoretically available legal rules at the opposite ends of a spectrum, neither seems satisfactory.
Coefficients in the formula are based on data obtained from at-sea measurements and from tests of structural models; as a consequence, the formula has been found to give predictions that seem to be in satisfactory agreement with reality.
Because he is up there... well that seems like a satisfactory answer.
We observed that our value lies within the margins of the expected value of 37.6 ± 50.2 mW/m2 (Verheijen and Ajakaiye [1979]) and conclude that our calculations seem satisfactory.
"That seems intellectually less than satisfactory with me".
