Example Sentences

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The central mystery is flabby and uncompelling and it feels obligatory at best, a real-estate scandal offering a loose background in front of which these actors play.

From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2024

Amid mounting criticism of an uncompelling exhibition-season product with sparsely attended stadiums and star players being withheld from games to avoid injury, there is increasing conviction within the NFL to shorten the preseason.

From Washington Post • Aug. 28, 2019

Similarly, another recent YouTube partnership, the Dangerous Woman Tour Diaries, was uncompelling, Grande’s presence unfocused in the meandering, PR-drawn definition of “documentary”.

From The Guardian • Dec. 26, 2018

The problem is that the production, based on a more conventional one that Mr. Spacey performed at the Old Vic in London in 2014 and 2015, is itself uncompelling.

From New York Times • Jun. 16, 2017

But Mason’s characters, too, are uncompelling compared to his plot, the waferlike concoctions of technothriller convenience, their superpowers perfunctorily deepened with a side serving of regret.

From Slate • May 25, 2017