Sentence examples for unsatisfactory substitutes from inspiring English sources

Jack sees these lovers as stand-ins, unsatisfactory substitutes for the real object of his desire.

These constructs only become necessary when a society is in need of moral regeneration and serve merely as unsatisfactory substitutes for the natural bonds of free people.

More critically, detergent micelles are often unsatisfactory substitutes for lamellar membranes.

Mr. Broderick's sad-eyed clowning, all on the surface, is an unsatisfactory substitute.

On her day off I was just the most unsatisfactory substitute for Sadie.

It facilitates some chat and fun, but often in environments that are prey to bullying, grooming and fraud, and are an unsatisfactory substitute for real-world human interaction.

Medical marijuana is a weak and unsatisfactory substitute nowadays, in other words.

They therefore substituted this unsatisfactory reality with fantasies that more readily satisfied their affective needs.

The international community, however, has not been able to offer a workable substitute for this unsatisfactory mechanism.

Police interviews and their own cross-examination, they say, reveal someone who has substituted a myth for an unsatisfactory life story.

Peppiatt proceeds on his straight way, girlfriends coming and going, though one is never in doubt that Bacon remains the most important figure in his life – a substitute, moreover, for his own unsatisfactory father, a manic-depressive who bullied the family for years.