Example Sentences

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Because the show, which Ms. Tharp has also conceived and directed, is underwrought as drama, the sheer intensity of the dancing becomes its main point.

From New York Times • Mar. 26, 2010

Felicity Jones as Mrs. H follows suit, leaving the whole piece admirably understated and underwrought.

From Newsweek

After Alvarez it is almost a pleasure to turn to something as thematically underwrought as German-trained Philosopher Jacques Choron's dry survey course in suicidology.

From Time Magazine Archive