unsensational

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Recent Examples of unsensational But its most striking characteristic, now that the media is completely oversaturated with violent murders and courtroom dramas, is that De Lestrade’s work is so straightforward and unsensational. Vogue, 8 June 2018 Robinson, whose credits include The L Word and True Blood, approaches the story in such a low-key, unsensational way that the trio's beyond-bohemian arrangement is barely eyebrow-raising. Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 12 Oct. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsensational
Adjective
  • With a choir and orchestra arranged by Axel Stordahl, the strings swell to heart-leaping proportions, while Sinatra keeps things sedate and sanguine with an undramatic vocal, which drips with a warm camaraderie.
    Emma Madden, Vulture, 23 Dec. 2024
  • On one hand, this was an extremely unsurprising and undramatic Bachelor franchise finale.
    Alice Burton, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • Kenzie was far from the first contestant in Survivor history to earn her million dollars that way, and her victory, though unexciting, was not illegitimate.
    Mark Harris, Vulture, 4 June 2024
  • With the exception of the two men who provide the film with its ridiculously unexciting love triangle, everyone in Alex’s orbit is one-dimensional and uninteresting.
    Courtney Howard, Variety, 28 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Jokic finished with 20 points, 14 rebounds and nine assists in 39 minutes, decent but unspectacular stats by the three-time NBA MVP’s standards.
    Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Such unspectacular reliability is becoming less valued by teams.
    Jerry Beach, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The rest of it wasn’t just boring or uneventful, but pretty sad.
    Nick Miller, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Mainland China had a fairly uneventful day bouncing around the room with utilities underperforming.
    Brendan Ahern, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Avoid sterile, clinical environments that can be intimidating.
    Ajay Prasad, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
  • The Pitt is set in Pittsburgh, not Chicago, and the season unfolds in real time, with overlapping crises ratcheting up tension as the cast careens around the sterile white set.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Strict and unimaginative gender norms were alive and well, and Weight Watchers was for the ladies (calories, of course, have no gender.
    John DeVore, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2025
  • These hotels are, at their worst, sites of literal death, and at best, gilded cages for the unimaginative.
    Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 17 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • With the exception of the two men who provide the film with its ridiculously unexciting love triangle, everyone in Alex’s orbit is one-dimensional and uninteresting.
    Courtney Howard, Variety, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Many commenters on Korean Air’s social media profiles said the new livery is bland and uninteresting and lacks the sense of national identity that the older version had.
    Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Higher education advisor Dan Ulin of Elite Student Coach in Los Angeles, California says downsides of unrewarding advanced degrees can extend far beyond the potential for long-term student loan debt and being thrust into an industry with limited (or no) growth potential.
    Robert Farrington, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025
  • The big problem is that social media is unrewarding.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 7 Feb. 2025

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“Unsensational.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsensational. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.

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