Example Sentences

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But eventfulness and machination have always been the hallmark of “Downton Abbey,” not acting.

From Washington Post • Sep. 17, 2019

“Remember the impossible eventfulness of time, transformation and emotion packed like gunpowder into the barrel,” its omniscient narrator exhorts the reader.

From Slate • Apr. 9, 2019

"The Band's Visit" could be said to lack eventfulness.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2017

Most of the dialogue is spoken, with sporadic singing and bursts of what might be termed shriekstemme; the music, despite its seeming randomness, hews uncannily to rising and falling tides of eventfulness.

From New York Times • Sep. 8, 2013

For all the expectancy, the sense of eventfulness even, of these years, little had really happened save the common inexplicable happenings of life and growth.

From Earth's Enigmas A Volume of Stories by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir