Example Sentences

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The artwork, although somewhat unartistically executed, has an attractive simplicity.

From American Military Insignia 1800-1851 by Campbell, J. Duncan

It is said to be founded on a true story, a fact which may account for an intensity of gloom in its coloring, the darkness of which would otherwise seem almost unartistically overcharged.

From Liza "A nest of nobles" by Ralston, William Ralston Shedden

These were at length deciphered by her parents, and proved to be metrical explanations of rudely-sketched pictures on the opposite page; the explanations being made in Roman letters, most unartistically formed and disposed.

From Lives of Celebrated Women by Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold)

This alone convinced me beyond all dispute, that these books did not come from one and the same hand, but are conglomerates formed out of older materials, unartistically and mechanically joined.

From Phases of Faith Passages from the History of My Creed by Newman, Francis William

He will show that after all it is nothing in the world but the popular power itself, the power of the people instinctively, unscientifically and unartistically exercised.

From The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded by Bacon, Delia