Moved with quiet force and undramatic bearing. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
This meeting between the lovers was singularly undramatic. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 2, January, 1896] Reference
Then the Fool made his undramatic gesture and broke the knot. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Fool]
The words no doubt were startling, coming from one so undramatic. From Wordnik.com. [Passers By] Reference
That's because the most dramatic moment is singularly undramatic. From Wordnik.com. [Freakonomics: The T.V. Series, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
The book is also a quiet, thoughtful, undramatic and unsensational story. From Wordnik.com. [Julian Fane: The Sodbury Crucifix] Reference
In clipped undramatic sentences he told them the basics of what had happened. From Wordnik.com. [Salvage for the Saint]
After a decidedly undramatic night, the news crews finally had a headline moment. From Wordnik.com. [Observer Ethical Awards: Caroline Lucas, Ethical Politician Award] Reference
Backgrounds must be consistent in all aspects, even the mundane, undramatic ones. From Wordnik.com. [Ten Minutes, That's It] Reference
The survivors are now absorbed once more in the undramatic industry of Lancashire. From Wordnik.com. [The Seventh Manchesters July 1916 to March 1919] Reference
"We will make it as painless and undramatic as possible for all concerned," he said. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
It is pedantic, undramatic and destroys the beautiful transition from man-ape to 2001. From Wordnik.com. [Tin] Reference
Hewitt works hard to bring the story to life, but it is perhaps inherently undramatic. From Wordnik.com. [Map of a Nation: A Biography of the Ordnance Survey by Rachel Hewitt - review] Reference
I agree that un-killing a character (with resurrection or whatever) is very undramatic. From Wordnik.com. [Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Faraway Soul’s Review Forum] Reference
The shift from sail to steam as the dominant source of surplus was slow and undramatic. From Wordnik.com. [Energy and Society~ Chapter 5~ Steam~ Key to the Industrial Revolution] Reference
All his movements were quite undramatic and without any sense, as Camilla noted, of style. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Fool]
Ours was just a commonplace, undramatic loss -- with only need for saving and retrenchment. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
That's something not fully realized because Wilson was in some ways a quiet, undramatic man. From Wordnik.com. [Woodrow Wilson: A Biography] Reference
Between that evening and Little Loewy's death lay several undramatic meetings of the Party cell. From Wordnik.com. [Autumn] Reference
The plays of Dryden and his school are at best but moc-heroic; and they are essentially undramatic. From Wordnik.com. [English literary criticism] Reference
She was hankering for a steady, undramatic life, removed from the mainstream, a life without stress. From Wordnik.com. [An Autobiography]
But its colour and poesy do not compensate for the diffuseness of the plot and the undramatic conclusion. From Wordnik.com. [Balzac] Reference
The fourth act particularly, undramatic as it is, is full of a delicate beauty that defies transcription. From Wordnik.com. [Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works] Reference
While nonexplosive and undramatic emergency landings rarely attract the attention of the media, this one did. From Wordnik.com. [The Power of Blogging On Display – Alaska Airlines Decompression Incident « Lorelle on WordPress] Reference
Am alia reported, had gone well, and the charts showed the gradual, undramatic improvement they all hoped for. From Wordnik.com. [Heidelberg Wedding]
But a quieter battle has been underway for two decades in Burma, entirely undramatic, but profoundly consequential. From Wordnik.com. [Burmese Squeeze] Reference
The results of many other probes -- from Filegate to Travelgate to the original Whitewater matter -- remain undramatic. From Wordnik.com. [Race To The Bottom] Reference
Such deaths include malnutrition, infection, and childbirth with the majority being of an undramatic nature (IRC, 2008). From Wordnik.com. [Death's Niche in the Democratic Republic of Congo] Reference
A tense, fairly undramatic thriller that unfolds nicely, but will leave the more adventurous film goers looking for more. From Wordnik.com. [Row Three » Review: Cassandra’s Dream - Where Cinema is more than just $100 Million productions] Reference
It turns upon motives which are not apparent from the actions and have to be explained in dreary and most undramatic length. From Wordnik.com. [Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama] Reference
First must come a fiscally sane, undramatic means by which men and women can move in routine fashion between Earth and space. From Wordnik.com. [Nasa's Space Station Zero] Reference
When she had to mention something like the broken glass she said it casually, trying to make it sound as undramatic as possible. From Wordnik.com. [WILD SWANS THREE DAUGHTERS OF CHINA]
One of the reasons we know so little about this side of slavery — and about all lower-class life — is that it is undramatic. From Wordnik.com. [A Special Supplement: American Slaves and Their History] Reference
Revfisk on May 11, 2008 that was pretty undramatic to be honest … still going to see it though.haha. craziemutant on May 12, 2008. From Wordnik.com. [Yet Another Full Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Trailer! « FirstShowing.net] Reference
But functional institutions will take a decade or more, their successes will be undramatic, and many will be difficult to quantify. From Wordnik.com. [After Reconstruction] Reference
But all would tear asunder in fall from grace that was so precipitous, it makes Brian Wilson's career look undramatic by comparison. From Wordnik.com. [Pink Floyd Co-Founder Syd Barrett Dies] Reference
It will be said, perhaps, that this would have been undramatic and that such a view is merely sentimental and subversive of all true art. From Wordnik.com. [The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust'] Reference
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