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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
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Vodka is all-too-often written off as an unexciting category of spirit.—
Brad Japhe,
Forbes.com,
30 Apr. 2025
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Producers love an unexciting telecast, but audiences are hungry for the kind of raw emotion and drama that populates the films that win the awards.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA TODAY,
3 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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It’s often said that what may seem relatively unspectacular on the runway can be better appreciated upon closer inspection.—
Julian Randall,
Essence,
12 Mar. 2025
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Meanwhile, each zone is punctuated by boss fights that are unspectacular and fail to present much challenge, especially when players can buy potions.—
Gieson Cacho,
Mercury News,
18 Apr. 2025
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Life in the house was mostly uneventful — until one night in 1985, when a light fell from the ceiling and left their daughter, Shannon Smurl, with a gash on her forehead.—
Emily Blackwood,
People.com,
9 May 2025
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Flying does, however, remain the safest way to travel, with millions of people enjoying uneventful journeys every day.—
Lilit Marcus,
CNN Money,
11 Apr. 2025
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Recently, 26 previously unknown bacterial species were discovered in NASA clean rooms — some of the most sterile places humanity has built, designed to prevent spacecraft from carrying unwanted microbes to other planetary bodies.—
Andrew Jones,
Space.com,
21 May 2025
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Why does every waiting room look like some sterile IKEA?—
Shep Hyken,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2025
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But in the Sacramento region, most drinkers still associate chenin blanc with its sweet, unimaginative predecessors.—
Benjy Egel,
Sacbee.com,
3 Apr. 2025
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There are narrative tropes, flat characters and unimaginative enemies everywhere.—
Christopher rd,
New York Times,
27 Mar. 2025
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What remains consistent is the splendid topography of Frazier’s prose, and the sense throughout his work that there are, in fact, no uninteresting places, just uninteresting writers.—
The Atlantic,
The Atlantic,
15 May 2025
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Image The stories of Twain’s children, who either died young or suffered innumerable medical and professional setbacks, are heart-rending and hardly uninteresting.—
Dwight Garner,
New York Times,
13 May 2025
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Higher education advisor Dan Ulin of Elite Student Coach in Los Angeles, California says downsides of unrewarding advanced degrees can extend far beyond the potential for long-term student loan debt and being thrust into an industry with limited (or no) growth potential.—
Robert Farrington,
Forbes,
15 Mar. 2025
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The big problem is that social media is unrewarding.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
7 Feb. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Unsensational.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsensational. Accessed 25 May. 2025.
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