unspontaneous

Example Sentences

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Usually, this is the world’s most beautifully stuffy and elegantly unspontaneous company; here, as when it danced this ballet at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, it bubbles over with impish sweetness.

From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2017

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

Then there are the unspontaneous and nervous speeches.

From New York Times • May 18, 2010

By playing up so lavishly to the Asian leaders � at a remove from the unspontaneous crowds -Khrushchev cut the ground from under local Communists.

From Time Magazine Archive

During the meal, which was presently set forth and proclaimed ready by René, the talk, as was natural in that watchful attendant's presence, ran only on general topics, and was in consequence fitful and unspontaneous.

From The Light of Scarthey by Castle, Egerton