unemphatic

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".

Yet the auctioneer’s voice, nested in drums, is so quiet and unemphatic that you could almost miss it.

When something violent happens, it is against that same unemphatic, unexplicit background, minus disturbing sound effects and musical underscoring.

Elements that might be contrastive, arabesques versus body rolls, are all delivered unemphatically, on the same level — each snowflake registering before it merges with the water.

“We don’t realize what a narrow miss we had,” Ishiguro said in his measured, unemphatic voice.