A quarter of a century ago, the uncertainty felt by some professionals and the unsatisfactory condition of the picture, compounded by the fact that the attribution has not yet withstood the test of time, would have made its sale highly problematic.
Stage makeup proved to be wholly unsatisfactory for the motion-picture medium.
Something about the battle between those two things, European modernity and British tradition, makes these pictures both unresolved and unsatisfactory and extraordinarily powerful.
Or even convincing a 21-year-old coming off a worryingly unsatisfactory season that circulating an apparently harmless picture of himself sitting poolside in the Balearics does not convey a good impression?
A remarkably consistent picture emerges across the countries surveyed: unsatisfactory police contact damages trust and erodes legitimacy.
But what if I, as a critic, had unfairly criticised motion pictures that seemed to have stupid or unsatisfactory endings, oblivious to the fact that I had been out of the room during the two minutes when the denouement was foreshadowed, the two minutes that would make the ending seem not only justified but brilliant?
The latest health report card for women, issued on Thursday by the National Women's Law Center and Oregon Health and Science University, paints a dismal picture, giving the United States an overall general grade of Unsatisfactory, with many F's on specific goals set by the government's Healthy People 2010 initiative.
And while Marx imagines a liberating crisis at the end of history, Weber pictures a future that is apt to be as unsatisfactory as the present.
His first attempt, using interstate highways, was unsatisfactory; they bypassed too many small towns, and there were too many pictures of rock faces and concrete walls instead of vistas.
The condition was unsatisfactory, this singularly myopic individual wrote, "and there was no colour left in the picture".
