unemphatic
Example Sentences
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The New York Times found the film "a loose string of vignettes, presented at an unemphatic, page-flipping pace...and establishing Forrest as an accidental emblem of his times".
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2022
But what became infuriating for me, as a child of immigrants myself, was their refusal to understand why so many are unemphatic towards them.
From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2020
The beat is steady and usually unemphatic; the song circles through three chords again and again.
From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2018
Yet his films lure you in with their precise, unemphatic presentation, their accrual of details—a heap of oily rags that could ignite at any time.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 1, 2017
In answer to her unemphatic query Leon said, “It's just a letter.”
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
