'The only way, it seems, that an English novelist can write satisfactorily about the English present,' Sebastian Faulks, one of our leading historical novelists, told me at the time, 'is to do so in a surreal way, as Martin Amis did in Money If an English novelist writes realistically about the present the result is usually banal, uninteresting or reads like a style piece.
When he finally writes it satisfactorily, Helen says, "This is just filth".
One student in six leaves school unable to read, write and add up satisfactorily.But even if schools suddenly started to turn out well-qualified young people in droves, it would be decades before Britain's workforce looked radically different.
best evidence rule where "non production of the written instrument is satisfactorily accounted for".
But there are times when I feel that I've been serving out a sentence of some 20 years in order to look after my children and work and write, and that none of these has been done quite as single-mindedly or as satisfactorily as I'd wish.
Journalists write to support democracy, sustain truth, salute justice, justify expenses, see the world and make a living, but to satisfactorily do any of these things you have to have readers.
No one has satisfactorily explained, although many have tried, why the 32-year-old author of the monumental novel Moby-Dick would for the next 40 years write nothing of consequence.
David Rees credits a 1940 shipfitters' manual as inspiration for "How to Sharpen Pencils," his stupefyingly exhaustive guide to the art, science and artisanal pleasures of manually shaping a thin graphite column encased in a 6.75-inch-long wooden tube to a satisfactorily sharp point for writing, drawing, doodling or inserting up a nostril.
The third writes: "Most of my concerns were satisfactorily addressed but two points remain".
"On pragmatistic principles," James writes, "if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true" (143).
A document outlining the conditions set when planning permission was granted by says "no dwellings or other non-residential properties shall be permitted to be occupied until the local planning authority, in accordance with the Environment Agency Wales has formally confirmed in writing that the relevant measures have been satisfactorily completed".
