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- adjective Not
sensational
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not of such character as to arouse intense interest, curiosity, or emotional reaction
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Examples
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Chevalier takes a sensational figure (and Mary Anning was a real celebrity in her own day) and focuses on the quiet, unsensational part of the story.
Remarkable Creatures: Summary and book reviews of Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier. 2010
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Indeed, one striking aspect of the film is the unsensational tone.
A Casualty of War Is Released at Last Richard B. Woodward 2010
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From my review: "The author's interest, one feels, is not so much the way in which the mystery is solved, but the nature of fate and self-fulfilling prophecy ....... once the case begins to bite, THE GLASS DEVIL becomes a focused, bleak tale about evil stripped down to its basics, portrayed with this author's unflinching yet unsensational style."
Reading Maxine 2009
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From my review: "The author's interest, one feels, is not so much the way in which the mystery is solved, but the nature of fate and self-fulfilling prophecy ....... once the case begins to bite, THE GLASS DEVIL becomes a focused, bleak tale about evil stripped down to its basics, portrayed with this author's unflinching yet unsensational style."
August 2008 Maxine 2008
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From my review: "The author's interest, one feels, is not so much the way in which the mystery is solved, but the nature of fate and self-fulfilling prophecy ....... once the case begins to bite, THE GLASS DEVIL becomes a focused, bleak tale about evil stripped down to its basics, portrayed with this author's unflinching yet unsensational style."
Sunday Salon: August reviews Maxine 2008
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But in the end they don't leave their readers with the correct, if unsensational, impression, which is that men and women's minds are highly similar.
How different are the brains of women and men? Not much. Peggy 2008
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And while the Sestak question is legal, technical, and unsensational, the effects of the ocean gusher are immediate, photographic and sensational.
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But in the end they don't leave their readers with the correct, if unsensational, impression, which is that men and women's minds are highly similar.
Archive 2008-07-01 Peggy 2008
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It seems that only 74,000 people tuned in for the finale when it aired on Starz, giving the show a rather unsensational 0.0 rating ouch.
Of comedy, the good, the bad and the crazy Reel Fanatic 2010
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From my review: "The author's interest, one feels, is not so much the way in which the mystery is solved, but the nature of fate and self-fulfilling prophecy ....... once the case begins to bite, THE GLASS DEVIL becomes a focused, bleak tale about evil stripped down to its basics, portrayed with this author's unflinching yet unsensational style."
Sunday Salon: August reviews Maxine 2008
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