unspontaneous
Example Sentences
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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
Then there are the unspontaneous and nervous speeches.
From New York Times ● May 18, 2010
Other protesters staged equally unspontaneous demonstrations in a dozen provincial capitals.
From Time Magazine Archive
He is out of his element; his colour is lifeless, it smacks of the tempera painter; his style seems frigid, his magnificence unspontaneous and almost bombastic.
From The Mind of the Artist Thoughts and Sayings of Painters and Sculptors on Their Art by Binyon, Cicely Margaret Powell
