Example Sentences

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But the lack of compelling performances renders this complex tragedy, and its conflicted central character, frustratingly flat and stubbornly unengaging.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026

But these choreographic concepts are bare frames, and what’s inside them is largely inchoate and unengaging.

From New York Times • Mar. 4, 2022

The uneven text ultimately creates an unclear and unengaging profile.

From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021

But like virtually every character in the film, Dickie is an unengaging archetype: a pale Xerox of someone far more compelling.

From Washington Post • Sep. 29, 2021

One loud rat-tat made me feel certain that Kosinski had arrived, but I was again disillusioned, as an aesthetic, fascinating little lady made her entry, dragging triumphantly in tow a reluctant, unengaging and green-haired husband.

From A Girl Among the Anarchists by Meredith, Isabel