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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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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
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Kenzie was far from the first contestant in Survivor history to earn her million dollars that way, and her victory, though unexciting, was not illegitimate.—
Mark Harris,
Vulture,
4 June 2024
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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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At the plate, after posting a solid if unspectacular .758 OPS with 13 home runs in 2024, Wong is off to a dismal start this season, with just two hits and three walks in 26 trips to the plate.—
Gordon G. Chang,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Apr. 2025
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A week after Makary’s relatively uneventful confirmation hearing before the Senate health committee, Hawley drew attention to Perkins’s appointment in the new administration, the first political position in her career.—
Christian Datoc,
The Washington Examiner,
30 Mar. 2025
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The six-day Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, which starts Tuesday and ends March 10, held an uneventful pre-meeting press conference on Monday.—
Brendan Ahern,
Forbes,
3 Mar. 2025
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With two treatments, the capybaras should be sterile for at least a few months.—
Michael Nied,
People.com,
18 Apr. 2025
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The lower levels of the parking garage are sterile and lifeless — a liminal space of flickering lights and zero cars.—
Jack Flemming,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Mar. 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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Their drama — seen in multiple flashbacks, as well as the tension that exists in the present day — is deeply uninteresting.—
Nina Metz,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Apr. 2025
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With the exception of the two men who provide the film with its ridiculously unexciting love triangle, everyone in Alex’s orbit is one-dimensional and uninteresting.—
Courtney Howard,
Variety,
28 Mar. 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
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“Unsensational.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsensational. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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