unaffecting
- a word derived from affecting.
Example Sentences
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The father-son standoff, in which Harlan threatens to expose McNeal’s literary crime to the New York Times in revenge for the way he treated his mother, is strangely unaffecting.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2024
This is the second indulgent and unaffecting daddy-issue movie of the summer — the first was “My Dead Dad.”
From New York Times • Aug. 4, 2022
The images of soldiers at ease, at work, or in combat—and, for that matter, appalling and mournful ones of those fallen in action—aren’t so much unaffecting as, despite Jackson’s best intentions, general.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 19, 2019
Bailey's narration was soporific – his dry delivery suits drollery and, as there was none here, it remained simply flat and unaffecting.
From The Guardian • Apr. 9, 2011
Dr. Johnson thought it "somewhat cold and unaffecting."
From The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar by Black, Ebenezer Charlton
