How to Use undramatic in a Sentence
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This is the most undramatic post-season in any pro league.
—Dave Hyde, Sun-Sentinel.com, 17 May 2017
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The season ended in undramatic fashion on Sunday, and now all eyes turn to the NBA draft lottery.
—Omari Sankofa Ii, Detroit Free Press, 17 May 2021
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But timely hits off McGee, coupled with the errors, opened the floodgates to an undramatic Boston win.
—Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 27 Aug. 2019
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Two others, dressed somewhat like speed skaters, move in slow and undramatic unison.
—The New York Times, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2017
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Grandma and Pa were the stable, loving, undramatic and solid figures in Frankel’s life.
—Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2020
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In a few words True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic.
—John Biggs, National Geographic, 29 June 2020
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But short of rewriting the script, the show cannot escape the burdens this play imposes – suffering without meaning, ridicule for the sake of ridicule, and undramatic poetry.
—Hugh Hunter, Philly.com, 31 July 2017
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Despite the undramatic scenes, Jin’s arrival at the base was greeted by hundreds of media and fans, sufficient that authorities set up their own camp to handle the crowds.
—Patrick Frater, Variety, 13 Dec. 2022
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For nearly three decades, the state has been slowly nudging out coal and oil and cobbling together enough climate-friendly energy to make steady but undramatic gains.
—Sabrina Shankman, BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2023
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These are moments of high drama that require real detective work, while most of the story that Leader has to tell is outwardly undramatic.
—Adam Kirsch, WSJ, 8 Nov. 2018
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But the outlet's main source explained Swift realized Alwyn wasn't the one for her given their differences, leading to their recent but undramatic split.
—Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 11 Apr. 2023
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Donald described this event in an undramatic and routine manner.
—Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 29 June 2020
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In the end, the way the decision became final was vintage Brussels: bureaucratic and undramatic.
—Matina Stevis-Gridneff, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Jan. 2020
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Brexit, in this reading, contradicts an old perception of Britain as a pragmatic, undramatic sort of place.
—The Economist, 26 Sep. 2019
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There is no patience for the undramatic, efficient, spiraling ascent of progress.
—Thomas Chatterton Williams, Harper's Magazine, 20 July 2021
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Sittenfeld even draws us into the deskbound process of writing and editing a script — activities that seem inherently undramatic but become, in her telling, the stuff of great excitement.
—Ron Charles, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2023
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Nentwig gives the impression of being a methodical and undramatic scholar, the type who never misses a deadline.
—Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 19 July 2021
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The race officials followed standard procedure, unlike in Abu Dhabi, and the Grand Prix finished in an orderly, undramatic fashion.
—Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2022
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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, 1 Dec. 2022
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What makes Crater very different, and probably less audience-friendly, is its neutral, undramatic approach to the story.
—Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Nov. 2017
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Bartlett is on shakier ground in the family scenes, with the Trump boys badly underwritten and the initial premise of Shakespearean internecine rivalry turning into an undramatic rout by Ivanka.
—Demetrios Matheou, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Apr. 2022
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Edward Muska, 25, was part of the group that spent nearly 36 relatively undramatic hours inside — playing cards, watching movies, drinking beer — while Irma howled and rattled outside.
—David Ovalle and David Goodhue, miamiherald, 10 Sep. 2017
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Finn Little, who plays Connor, her young charge, is similarly intense but undramatic, his tears frequently making little rivulets down his muddy face.
—Jo Livingstone, The New Republic, 21 May 2021
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Compared with the Bolshevik Revolution, the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 was undramatic, albeit surprising.
—Yuri Slezkine, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2022
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Steveson's path to the finals was decidedly undramatic.
—Rachel Blount, Star Tribune, 2 Apr. 2021
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Critics called the result of their method undramatic, but the work has been increasingly accepted in recent years, in part because of a 2018 recording that, with the soprano Julia Bullock as Kitty Oppenheimer, brought the dramaturgy more into focus.
—Joshua Barone, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2022
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The illusion of glittering success was shattered last week by an undramatic regulatory filing across the border in Singapore.
—Patrick Frater, Variety, 6 Apr. 2023
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The business now at hand is undramatic, practical, and of scientific definiteness and precision.
—Erick Trickey, Smithsonian, 10 Apr. 2017
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Clemency, the second feature by director Chinonye Chukwu, aims to dramatize the inherently undramatic: the moral culpability of one of the state’s anonymous functionaries.
—Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 17 Jan. 2020
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Then, this ‘other’ turkey made an equally ceremonious but undramatic presentation to the table.
—Emily Heil, Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2022
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