An unexcitable temperament. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : Prima donnas had the reputation of being excitable and temperamental. From Dictionary.com.
The vice president was characteristically unexcitable. From Wordnik.com. [The Day That Changed America] Reference
Tyrone follows behind her, his usually unexcitable face animated. From Wordnik.com. [Cheer!] Reference
He was a fleshy man of about fifty, bald, pale skinned, and unexcitable. From Wordnik.com. [Blood Sports]
Set in the deep tan of his face, his blue eyes were calm and unexcitable. From Wordnik.com. [I Am Legend]
You enjoy the company of other people, but they find you unexcitable and depressing. From Wordnik.com. [Well, At Least I Have SOME Sort Of Skill!] Reference
Which are fundamental in the sense of being truly indivisible, unexcitable, basic, utterly elementary?. From Wordnik.com. [Higgs 101] Reference
Yet Senator Obama has turned out to be the very contrary of all this: thoughtful, unexcitable, soothing. From Wordnik.com. [Benjamin R. Barber: The Conservative Wins Again! Barack Obama by a Landslide] Reference
Obama was cool, diffident, above it all -- unflustered, unflappable, unexcitable and downright unexciting. From Wordnik.com. [Bob Ostertag: The Snooze Factor] Reference
Audiences, too, are staid and unexcitable, conspicuously older and more prosperous than the general populace. From Wordnik.com. [Music-Mad Month] Reference
It has been sad to see how hastily the antiwar movement gets excited about the utterly unexcitable Democrats. From Wordnik.com. [Changing Courses? John Murtha is no Knight in Shining Armor] Reference
That's why some otherwise unexcitable Mexicans are profoundly nervous about what the next six months may hold. From Wordnik.com. [Reform And The Revolution] Reference
In both cases, friends say, he is doing it with an unexcitable steadiness that is a product of his Hawaiian upbringing. From Wordnik.com. [The Early Word: Christmas Edition - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
Tackling the perceived leadership crisis head on, the top leader—normally a sedate, unexcitable man—went on to give an amazing speech. From Wordnik.com. [Evolutionary Leadership] Reference
I asked the governor, who is an unexcitable lawyer of about 60, if “his people” — I phrased it this way — were seeking independence from Iraq. From Wordnik.com. [After Iraq] Reference
C.R. Laird, the red-haired, where he had any, unexcitable old doctor from Nebraska, who treated one hundred and fourteen wounded R.ssian soldiers in one night. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference
Come to think of it, it was also up against Sky 1's very good police thriller Thorne, featuring rugged David Morrissey as unexcitable detective Tom, er … Thorne. From Wordnik.com. [TV Rewind: Single Father; The Pillars of the Earth; Jamie's 30-Minute Meals; Nigella Kitchen; Food: What Goes in Your Basket?] Reference
His naturally calm and unexcitable temperament had been still further disciplined by early habits of self-command, first as a scholar and subsequently as a soldier. From Wordnik.com. [The King's Warrant A Story of Old and New France] Reference
Albert was a man of fifty or more, with a large head, square German face and forehead, a large hazel eye, fixed and unexcitable, hair closely cut, and beard upon his chin and lip. From Wordnik.com. [Edmond Dantès] Reference
For Gandhi both communism and capitalism were morally unexcitable. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Ordinarily the commandant of the fort was of a calm and unexcitable temperament. From Wordnik.com. [The Great War Syndicate] Reference
Another unexcitable voice, from the laconic flatlands of North Dakota - Senator Kent Conrad. From Wordnik.com. [ModerateVoters.org] Reference
She was a wide-awake and very unexcitable person, and I believe kept close hold on the psychic's right hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow World] Reference
The wine in Rumford at any rate let loose his original nature, if it failed to unlock the animal in these other unexcitable Saxons. From Wordnik.com. [Celt and Saxon — Complete] Reference
Her voice, low and musical, her poise, and the tranquil and unexcitable loveliness of her face had made him, at first, register her as a woman. From Wordnik.com. [The Flaming Forest] Reference
From his cool, unexcitable, matter-of-fact way, one would have supposed that he had always been inured to the excitement and bustle of the city. From Wordnik.com. [Twenty Years of Hus'ling] Reference
The smooth, even, unexcitable pace of the book gives the reader the sense that Mamah was calm on the surface yet conflicted and seriously introspective. From Wordnik.com. [The Denver Newspaper Agency YourHub.com Stories] Reference
Concord, -- the river of peace and quietness; for it is certainly the most unexcitable and sluggish stream that ever loitered imperceptibly towards its eternity, -- the sea. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Manse (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")] Reference
He was a grave, cold, methodical man, a skillful engraver, a conscientious manager, every one who knew him knows how unexcitable his temperament was, and how little imaginative. From Wordnik.com. [Part III, Chapter I of "Uranie"] Reference
A clear, unexcitable temperament, with unorthodox and vague religious ideas. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
He strikes me (and the English so regard him) as a man of admirable judgment ” unexcitable and indefatigable. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Letters of Walter H Page]
"I had trimmed his hair, and from such talk as I had had with him I judged him to be an easy-going, unexcitable sort of fellow. From Wordnik.com. [More Toasts] Reference
'I need steady, unexcitable people', he said. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl In A Swing]
He's or'narily sitch a cool, unexcitable man. From Wordnik.com. [The Prairie Chief] Reference
"unexcitable" words and phrases never "loitered" through forty pages of "dreamy" and "whispering" description. From Wordnik.com. [English: Composition and Literature] Reference
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