Example Sentences

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Here was an ideal refuge in gaudy times, and a book tailor-made for rescue from oblivion: unassuming, unobtrusive, unrhetorical, uncoercive, unpretentious, an austere record of austere values.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 11, 2019

All of which means that, much as Inception unfolds as a series of puzzles, the reaction to it leaves me scratching my head and pondering mostly unrhetorical questions.

From The Guardian • Jul. 16, 2010

Supremely honest, unrhetorical painting, it breathes the air of scrupulous anxiety.

From Time Magazine Archive

Anxious to strip his music to the barest, unrhetorical essentials, Webern indulged in angular, jumping melodies, subtle scoring effects and impressionistic, unrelated bits and scraps of themes.

From Time Magazine Archive

They are both unrhetorical and void of pose, and divide themselves between the artless comedy of bustling, lively, English humours and pathetic, unheroic tragedy.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various