Example Sentences

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The full-length review described Peterson's prose as "repetitious, unvariegated, rhythmless, opaque and possessed of a suffocating sense of its own importance".

From BBC • Aug. 16, 2023

A prominent sound under this hashtag is called “Stuck in My Head,” a rhythmless mashup of TikTok earworms uploaded by user Disfunnyguyrobert in early August.

From Slate • Sep. 17, 2020

With their mostly rhythmless gaits, their barely there two-steps, rappers have nothing to fear from herky-jerky virtual projections of themselves synched to a vocal track.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 27, 2016

Under Mikael Håfström's visually clunky, rhythmless direction, it's a snooze of epic sameness: choppy action scenes, a blankly stern Cusack, and too many allegiance shifts to count or care for.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 1, 2015

On the other hand, the rhythmless is unlimited, and the speech should be circumscribed but not by meter; for what is unbounded is unpleasant and unrecognizable.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith