Example Sentences

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This is not just a matter of de Waal’s bravura yet resolutely unthrilling performance, but also of the framing.

From New York Times • Nov. 17, 2021

Alone in refusing to go negative against his opponents, he was the candidate of good, if unthrilling, governance.

From The Guardian • Feb. 7, 2016

"I would say that the production was almost as unthrilling as many of the reviews said," he concedes.

From BBC • Jul. 27, 2012

The first involves a singularly unthrilling Martian air battle between two bird-like supercrafts manned by soldiers in armor reminiscent of ancient Rome, or at least movies about it.

From Slate • Mar. 9, 2012

She turned to this substantial but unthrilling young man of everyday life.

From The Disturbing Charm by Ruck, Berta