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Recent Examples of unsensational
But its most striking characteristic, now that the media is completely oversaturated with violent murders and courtroom dramas, is that De Lestrade’s work is so straightforward and unsensational.
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Vogue, 8 June 2018
Robinson, whose credits include The L Word and True Blood, approaches the story in such a low-key, unsensational way that the trio's beyond-bohemian arrangement is barely eyebrow-raising.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 12 Oct. 2017
Vogue, 8 June 2018
Robinson, whose credits include The L Word and True Blood, approaches the story in such a low-key, unsensational way that the trio's beyond-bohemian arrangement is barely eyebrow-raising.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 12 Oct. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsensational
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With a choir and orchestra arranged by Axel Stordahl, the strings swell to heart-leaping proportions, while Sinatra keeps things sedate and sanguine with an undramatic vocal, which drips with a warm camaraderie.—
Emma Madden,
Vulture,
23 Dec. 2024
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On one hand, this was an extremely unsurprising and undramatic Bachelor franchise finale.—
Alice Burton,
Vulture,
14 Nov. 2024
Adjective
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Performance looks unexciting and the range is more like EVs from four years ago, making this more of a city or suburban runaround with commuting capabilities, rather than the car for that family holiday road trip.—
James Morris,
Forbes,
7 Dec. 2024
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The camera angles were weird, the teleprompter seemed like it was broken, and sure, a lot of the banter was fun, but the choices for winners were rather straightforward and unexciting.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
6 Jan. 2025
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That brought about a couple of playoff berths with solid but unspectacular players like Tyson Chandler, Luol Deng, Ben Gordon, and Kirk Hinrich.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
The Mercury News,
21 Jan. 2025
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Kyle Dubas only touched the fringes of his roster last summer and the moves have been solid albeit unspectacular.—
Harman Dayal,
The Athletic,
8 Jan. 2025
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Though the yearlong standoff was uneventful, tensions led to Mormons attacking and killing more than 100 innocent people in a wagon train bound for California.—
David Wharton,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Jan. 2025
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After our uneventful trip up the mountain, Lyman drove across the state line into New Mexico, a transition marked by a sudden proliferation of marijuana dispensaries.—
Rachel Monroe,
The New Yorker,
20 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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The visual clash of serene pastoral meeting sterile corporate is remarkable.—
Erin Qualey,
Vulture,
31 Jan. 2025
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Here, the sterile, ice-laden landscape is unforgiving and one mistake can cost you your life.—
Scott Haugen,
Outdoor Life,
30 Jan. 2025
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Such an unimaginative and bland group of coaches and programs.—
Antonio Morales,
The Athletic,
24 Jan. 2025
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The book will therefore appear January 14 (following a leak that rocked the publishing world), scarcely a month after Francis’s 88th birthday, under the appropriate if slightly unimaginative title Hope.—
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airmail.news,
11 Jan. 2025
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Manager Gareth Southgate has been under pressure for the English being defensive and mostly uninteresting to watch, but the results have been good enough.—
Dan Santaromita,
The Athletic,
10 July 2024
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The path that was designed for her was uninteresting to her.—
Adam Moss,
Vulture,
19 Dec. 2024
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In many of the cases, the endings with Heat leading men have been awkward and, at least initially, unrewarding.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
15 Jan. 2025
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Automation enables human workers to opt out of repetitive tasks that are physically taxing but otherwise unrewarding.—
Massimo Bizzi,
Forbes,
6 Dec. 2024
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“Unsensational.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsensational. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.
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