Example Sentences

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That, however, is not something he insists on, any more than he insists on the absurdity of the activities he patiently, unemphatically records in a movie that unfolds slowly but never slackly.

From Time Magazine Archive

“I’m going to enlist in these ski troops,” he went on mildly, so unemphatically that my mind went back to halflistening.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles

"Bien," Madame von Marwitz then said, unemphatically, mildly.

From Tante by Sedgwick, Anne Douglas