Example Sentences

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But I never felt impatient with “Women Talking,” which dismantles the assumption that conversation is an inherently dull or uncinematic activity, and which moves too swiftly to bog down in its own verbiage.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2022

The things that happen in Songbird, this pumped-up world where COVID-19 “gets worse,” make it an object lesson in all the ways our own pandemic has been, among other things, catastrophically uncinematic.

From Slate • Dec. 11, 2020

To make matters trickier, most of those characters spend an awful lot of time confined in a small, stubbornly uncinematic space, not doing anything very dramatic.

From New York Times • Nov. 12, 2015

The HFR version of each Hobbit film has provoked particular ire, especially among critics and cinema ‘aficianados’, many of whom feel that the format looks glaringly uncinematic.

From Forbes • Dec. 16, 2014

So off they all go, plodding along at a pace that is unhistoric as well as uncinematic, to the climactic engagement�in which Colonel Wayne is decisively defeated.

From Time Magazine Archive