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

Yet his films lure you in with their precise, unemphatic presentation, their accrual of details—a heap of oily rags that could ignite at any time.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 1, 2017

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