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

Cunningham indicated that the desire to prosecute a ban that hasn’t been used in more than half a century betrayed selective — and uncompelling — interest by the defendants.

From Washington Post • Aug. 19, 2022

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

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

Mr. Ruby’s art always involves bad-boy brinkmanship, but here the qualities that make his work compelling are present in uncompelling ratios.

From New York Times • Feb. 12, 2010