unfascinating

These were biographies that, but for the vacancy on the Court, would never have seen the light of day, and the news consuming public would forever have been deprived of all the fascinating details about what in many cases were unfascinating lives that the vacancy permitted us to share.

Christopher Brauchli: The Nominee and the Calumniators 2009

However, the author made an unfascinating topic interesting.

Review: You Know Where To Find Me by Rachel Cohn 2008

The elegant text "If arrogance is the refusal to squander yourself on the unpassionate and the unfascinating, then he is arrogant" is juxtaposed with deceptively simple line drawings by Frances Halsband.

"Never Let Me Go is not a Christmas book." M-mv 2005

The elegant text "If arrogance is the refusal to squander yourself on the unpassionate and the unfascinating, then he is arrogant" is juxtaposed with deceptively simple line drawings by Frances Halsband.

Archive 2005-12-01 M-mv 2005

But in the actual proceedings there was a certain hitch, which is of interest not only because it illustrated a peculiar technical defect in the original Constitution and so led to its amendment, but because it introduces here, for the first time, the dubious but not unfascinating figure of Aaron Burr.

A History of the United States Cecil Chesterton 1898

"Madame la Princesse Ziska" began Gervase, addressing his unfascinating object with apparent indifference to his hideousness.

Ziska Marie Corelli 1889

Yet at noon, -- the most unfascinating hour, -- and in the early afternoon, though you must needs fail of the twilight and its forerunners, there is an intensity of brilliance and an immensity of breadth, that, it seems to me, must be greater than if the view were broken up by light and shade.

Gala-days Gail Hamilton 1864

She was beginning to suffer from the cold void that is formed about a woman by an unattractive, unfascinating girlhood, by a girlhood devoid of beauty and sympathetic charm.

Germinie Lacerteux Edmond de Goncourt 1859

One story, or myth, that had mixed itself up with their mouldy genealogy, interested the sculptor by its wild, and perhaps grotesque, yet not unfascinating peculiarity.

The Marble Faun - Volume 2 The Romance of Monte Beni Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

Either he found me incredibly fascinating, or he'd found me so incredibly unfascinating that one glance in my direction had sent him to sleep.

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