unspontaneous

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The story describes the contradiction of the philosopher’s “paean to spontaneity and her own nature, the least spontaneous, most doggedly, nervously, even fanatically unspontaneous I know.”

From The New Yorker • Jul. 18, 2016

Eight numbers were choreographed by Mr. Galletto; all too often it seemed that tango was an awkward pretext for a more artfully unspontaneous and strenuous kind of movement.

From New York Times • Aug. 12, 2013

Even Diana Vishneva — an only occasional visitor to Ballet Theater from the Kirov, physically gorgeous, stylistically refined, at her best astonishingly varied — can just deliver unspontaneous baby-doll performances of some roles.

From New York Times • May 13, 2010

Stores of fodder blazed up in unspontaneous combustion.

From Time Magazine Archive

Their unimpassioned faces, unspontaneous gestures, the artificiality of the whole impression, were undoubtedly a new reading of the ancient charm of the story.

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