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 scene, despite its frenetic exaggeration and gleeful stylization, suggests with an unemphatic but unmistakable clarity the experience of Audrey and Morgan, who are experiencing live fire for the first time in their lives.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 2, 2018

Almost throughout, it’s a thing of small, light formal gestures, unemphatic in tone and socially engaged, though in an unperturbed way that accommodates friendliness and wit.

From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2012

In answer to her unemphatic query Leon said, “It's just a letter.”

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan