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
“We don’t realize what a narrow miss we had,” Ishiguro said in his measured, unemphatic voice.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2021
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
Flanked by Hühnlein and Von Brauchitsch, who were making the salute in the approved straight-armed style, Dick raised his right hand, elbow bent, in a distinctly unemphatic version of the Hitlergrüss.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 29, 2020
In answer to her unemphatic query Leon said, “It's just a letter.”
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
