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

There’s very little chemistry or connection among them, resulting in an unengaging, totally trite and lackluster story.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2024

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

The contrast was as striking as it could have been eighteen years before, when Rigg was a most unengaging kickable boy, and Raffles was the rather thick-set Adonis of bar-rooms and back-parlors.

From Middlemarch by Eliot, George