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

Even Diana Vishneva — an only occasional visitor to Ballet Theater from the Kirov, physically gorgeous, stylistically refined, at her best astonishingly varied — can just deliver unspontaneous baby-doll performances of some roles.

From New York Times • May 13, 2010

In the past 10 years," he says, "film has become very unspontaneous, whether it's using digital technology or being very storyboarded.

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