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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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On one hand, this was an extremely unsurprising and undramatic Bachelor franchise finale.Alice Burton, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2024
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This gave me the naive assumption that an uneventful gestation would be followed by an equally undramatic delivery.Brigid Washington, Bon Appétit, 24 June 2024
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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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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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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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One current method used for mosquito control is called the sterile insect technique, which works by releasing many sterile males to mate with females, who tend to mate with only one partner.Sharon Udasin, The Hill, 5 Nov. 2024
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These tests require you to pee into a sterile cup so your healthcare provider can check for protein and waste products in your urine.Lindsay Curtis, Health, 19 Oct. 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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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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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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“Unsensational.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsensational. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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