as in unspectacular
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Recent Examples of undramatic
If his family life was grounded and undramatic, his imaginative life was something like the opposite.
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Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2024
Known for its delicate texture and undramatic look, this pie exudes old-school Southern class and charm.
—Micah A Leal, Southern Living, 10 Aug. 2023
Fukuyama looked to the future a little mournfully, seeing a gray, undramatic expanse—a tableau for technocrats.
—William MacAskill, Foreign Affairs, 11 Aug. 2022
Both cars have an effective but undramatic clutch-slipping launch and leap to 30 mph in 1.1 seconds, a haste that typically requires all-wheel drive.
—Dave Vanderwerp, Car and Driver, 5 July 2023
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Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2024
Known for its delicate texture and undramatic look, this pie exudes old-school Southern class and charm.
—Micah A Leal, Southern Living, 10 Aug. 2023
Fukuyama looked to the future a little mournfully, seeing a gray, undramatic expanse—a tableau for technocrats.
—William MacAskill, Foreign Affairs, 11 Aug. 2022
Both cars have an effective but undramatic clutch-slipping launch and leap to 30 mph in 1.1 seconds, a haste that typically requires all-wheel drive.
—Dave Vanderwerp, Car and Driver, 5 July 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for undramatic
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Against this backdrop—not to mention this government’s serviceable, if unspectacular, budgets to date—investors were primed for some good news.Milan Vaishnav, Foreign Affairs, 8 Mar. 2016
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During the first two decades after its independence in 1980, Zimbabwe was considered an African success story, with a stable regime overseeing steady if unspectacular economic growth—real incomes growing an average just over one percent a year, although some years recorded double-digit gains.John Rapley, Foreign Affairs, 14 May 2018
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David, a husband and father, holds down an unexciting but lucrative tech job.Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Oct. 2024
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The variety and talk spaces are, to put it frankly, some of the most stale and unexciting parts of the TV landscape.Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 17 July 2024
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The intrigue: Russell Westbrook, an enigmatic star who won league MVP honors seven years ago, joins the Nuggets after four uneventful seasons split with the two Los Angeles teams.Esteban L. Hernandez, Axios, 23 Oct. 2024
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Law enforcement is very involved in protecting polling places, and Americans should have very little difficulty voting tomorrow in a way that is calm, probably uneventful and secure.ABC NEWS, ABC News, 5 Nov. 2024
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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.Vogue, Vogue, 8 June 2018
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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
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The 10 wave playlist mode is boring, short and unrewarding.Paul Tassi, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
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Some or all of the Arab countries involved would likely demand that Israel halt settlement expansion on the West Bank or make other concessions to the Palestinians as the price of their participation in a difficult and unrewarding mission.Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2023
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Even a feature-length version of this plot would likely struggle with its lack of ideas, but 10 half-hour episodes feel punishing, well before a finale that offers an uninteresting explanation of the main mystery, and can’t even be bothered to resolve several other running plot threads.Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2024
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But the color work on the series isn’t just about pulling off the tricks that every DP would like to make a TV show look a little more appealing — darkening uninteresting blank spaces within a frame, making the color consistent between shots, and smoothing out any variables in the lighting.Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 29 Sep. 2024
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Sometimes, the genre becomes an excuse for amateurish or unimaginative filmmaking.A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 30 July 2024
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At the same time, consumers are pushing back on poor quality and unimaginative fast fashion by thrifting, which has never been more popular.Rebecca Jennings, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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Most of this long flashback segment is pretty boring, though.Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 11 Nov. 2024
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Toyota and Honda have at times been called boring: Honda by its own engineers, Toyota more famously by a chairman descended from the company’s founder.Robert Ferris, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2024
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“Undramatic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undramatic. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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