Sentence examples for unfortunate quality from inspiring English sources

Situating Kafka in history can have the unfortunate quality of explaining a joke: even if it doesn't spoil the effect, it still seems mostly beside the point.

Cochran has another unfortunate quality for a civil rights crusader: a tone-deafness for the pain of those outside his group.

Dubbed Gotham City, for the sense of dystopian gloom it will cast over all who see it, it has the unfortunate quality of being a groundscraper and a skyscraper at the same time – and resembling a corpulent grey heap.

While Gerard Kelly's wig design and especially Darius Nichols's oversized Afro is a hair fetishist's dream, it has the unfortunate quality of meshing too seamlessly with Michael McDonald's psychedelic costume design.

While Gerard Kelly's wig design — and especially Darius Nichols's oversized Afro — is a hair fetishist's dream, it has the unfortunate quality of meshing too seamlessly with Michael McDonald's psychedelic costume design.

There is a certain unfortunate quality now to the ongoing revelations about the National Security Agency's interwoven mass surveillance programs: each aspect of our digital life that seems untouched by the agency is, in fact, merely a gap waiting to be filled in by a new set of leaked information.

Photograph by Gianni Cipriano/The New York Times There is a certain unfortunate quality now to the ongoing revelations about the National Security Agency's interwoven mass surveillance programs: each aspect of our digital life that seems untouched by the agency is, in fact, merely a gap waiting to be filled in by a new set of leaked information.

Not only is… There is a certain unfortunate quality now to the ongoing revelations about the National Security Agency's interwoven mass surveillance programs: each aspect of our digital… The other week, Snapchat, a social network most notable for the ephemerality of its content — messages containing photos or videos disappear entirely within ten seconds, even….