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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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So the Royals have firmed up their second base position (lefty-hitting Massey should move into a bench role) with a stable if somewhat unexciting presence who is locked in for the next couple of years.Tony Blengino, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
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Yet the performance on Friday tended bland: lovely and unexciting.Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024
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Bellinger had a solid if unspectacular season after a strong bounce back in 2023.Sahadev Sharma, The Athletic, 10 Dec. 2024
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Nuno’s 2019-20 Wolves, who finished seventh in the league with 59 points, were unspectacular but solid from corners.Anantaajith Raghuraman, The Athletic, 14 Aug. 2024
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Tyson fought a reality show star half his age, with Paul declared the winner after eight uneventful rounds.Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2024
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The scenarios involving a pickup truck pulling a trailer ranged from an uneventful situation as a baseline, to one where the pickup and trailer veered in and out of the right-hand lane.Ed Garsten, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
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Plastics became indispensable in healthcare, enabling sterile equipment, syringes, and life-saving devices like incubators and blood bags.David Carlin, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
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While the soaring space and large walls of windows certainly let the outside in, modernist homes can often lean sterile if not outfitted with an injection of soft textures and color.Juliet Izon, Architectural Digest, 2 Dec. 2024
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The firm is smart, if also unimaginative, to highlight competition with China — which is indeed bipartisan, though likely to be managed very differently by the incoming administration.Johanna Costigan, Forbes, 26 Nov. 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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Mommy did not travel all the way to Montreal in the frigid tundra to be passive and uninteresting.Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 6 Dec. 2024
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At conventions, she was relegated to uninteresting panels.Meghan Herbst, WIRED, 26 Nov. 2024
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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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The 10 wave playlist mode is boring, short and unrewarding.Paul Tassi, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
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“Unsensational.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsensational. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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