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The last message of Calvin Coolidge to the U. S. Congress proved to be a brief and unmomentous document.

From Time Magazine Archive

In fact the procedure is entirely unmomentous, and when he looks at his watch he sees that from the time he’d entered the courtroom it had taken all of ten minutes.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

Among the telegrams Bonbright handed him, was one from Graham, which Dick read twice, although it was simple and unmomentous, being merely a postponement of his return.

From The Little Lady of the Big House by London, Jack

From it too came an unmomentous Margraf, who married a little Sister of Wilhelmina's and Fritz's; of whom we shall hear.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 03 by Carlyle, Thomas

Their conversation was inconclusive and unmomentous, without a tinge of novel interest or brilliancy; not one sentence would have been worth repeating.

From Anne by Woolson, Constance Fenimore