Sentence examples for unhappy effect from inspiring English sources

But the unhappy effect is further to surround 9/11 with a wilfully obtuse and depoliticised adult-infantilism and self-absorption.

A wicked brew of car exhaust, sunlight and cold sea air trapped in the basin seems to have had an unhappy effect on some of the vegetation.

Second, we must acknowledge that nothing has immunized us against the unhappy effect that economic disappointment works on the soul, or against the temptation to find scapegoats to hold responsible for deeper problems.

Although heroin and OxyContin have a similar unhappy effect on the lives of people addicted to them, there is a critical and simple difference between the two: heroin is illegal; OxyContin, when used as directed, is legal.

"If there is a short-term flood of the market with attempted sales of works, which then depresses the value of works that are available, the unhappy effect is it creates a general dampening of enthusiasm for buying art".

A friend of the Haggler's, who requested anonymity — look, some people don't like to see their name in the newspaper, O.K.? — has succeeded in a number of on-the-spot negotiations in hotels and restaurants by simply recounting the flaws in the experience and their unhappy effect on him and his family.

Ms. Greenberg nails whole portions of the health care elephant in her compulsively readable book: the doctor shopping, the postop misery, the unhappy effects of chronic illness on marriage and small children, the looking-glass world of detox and rehab.

Again, too much xylitol can have unhappy effects, so take it slow.

Maybe this is just some freak anecdotal evidence.' " It was in fact a pivotal change: Manipulating the price of coal had always insured that Chinese utilities would produce ever more electricity, but the unhappy side effect was that utilities needed to build nothing more efficient than the cheapest, dirtiest plants.

The pope's denunciation of the way in which "human beings are themselves considered consumer goods" was much more thoroughly anticipated in Marx's brilliant analysis of the commodity form which saw this process as central to capitalism, not merely an unhappy side effect of poor regulation.

Lammy has attracted financial backing from the City and positioned himself distinctively on social issues, arguing in his post-riots book Out of the Ashes that increased social and economic liberalism have had the unhappy side effect of lessening ties of mutual obligation.