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as in mild
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as in inconspicuous
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Recent Examples of unemphatic
The former is quietly involving: unhurried, unemphatic, observant.
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Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Nov. 2021
The beat is steady and usually unemphatic; the song circles through three chords again and again.
—Jon Pareles, New York Times, 6 July 2018
This 1991 feature, the second by Mexican filmmaker Maria Novaro, is leisurely paced and unemphatic but firmly conceived and executed, with a lot of feeling for female solidarity.
—Patrick Friel, Chicago Reader, 17 Apr. 2018
This line, delivered in his usual uninflected, unemphatic tone, is chilling, something that the villain in a Hitchcock thriller, one of those immaculately amoral gentleman-monsters, might have said.
—Lili Anolik, Vanities, 14 Dec. 2017
Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Nov. 2021
The beat is steady and usually unemphatic; the song circles through three chords again and again.
—Jon Pareles, New York Times, 6 July 2018
This 1991 feature, the second by Mexican filmmaker Maria Novaro, is leisurely paced and unemphatic but firmly conceived and executed, with a lot of feeling for female solidarity.
—Patrick Friel, Chicago Reader, 17 Apr. 2018
This line, delivered in his usual uninflected, unemphatic tone, is chilling, something that the villain in a Hitchcock thriller, one of those immaculately amoral gentleman-monsters, might have said.
—Lili Anolik, Vanities, 14 Dec. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unemphatic
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People who are infected may experience mild symptoms, from upper respiratory symptoms to conjunctivitis/pink eye, or more severe symptoms, which include pneumonia, multi-organ failure, or death.Charna Flam, People.com, 13 Dec. 2024
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Symptoms can range from mild to severe with the most serious cases resulting in death.Lauren De Young, The Arizona Republic, 12 Dec. 2024
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Find an inconspicuous area to dab a new leather cleaner.Michael Y. Park, Architectural Digest, 1 Oct. 2024
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In April 2022, a group of conservative thinkers, former lawmakers and policy advisers convened in an inconspicuous building in Washington.Ines Chomnalez, Austin American-Statesman, 19 Aug. 2024
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This was later pulled back and made more ambiguous, but still, the setting and enemy mecha do pretty much squarely place it before the game even if the story elements are now less specific.Ollie Barder, Forbes, 15 Dec. 2024
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Whether or not Margo was actually having an affair with her teenage neighbor is intended to be ambiguous, according to Feldman.TIME, TIME, 13 Dec. 2024
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Petrenko made crucial decisions in an unobtrusive way, shepherding the orchestra toward its best instincts.Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
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The housekeeping staff was diligent, and the management team had a clear emphasis on high touch unobtrusive service, all of which plus the ongoing dance party music throughout bolsters the desire of guests to return soon and frequently to repeat the experience.Eric Fuller, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2024
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People who knew Zhang described him to police as a nonassertive man who avoided conflict and typically acquiesced to his wife.Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2021
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Those who saw an assertive ad chose to allocate $7 of the gift card to the brand on average, compared with $14 for those who saw a nonassertive ad.Alina Dizik, WSJ, 16 May 2017
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The timing of the move — early Tuesday evening — would have been unremarkable except for what preceded it: rumors that the president-elect’s eldest son was dating a socialite, Bettina Anderson.Jesse McKinley, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2024
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The tech side is surprisingly unremarkable, with the visuals by the normally more nuanced DP Frida Marzouk providing a bright, digitald look.Alissa Simon, Variety, 7 Dec. 2024
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But there’s a wealth of psychological mystery in Sutherland’s unshowy, uninflected turn.A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 25 June 2024
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His movies are often in motion, and there’s a vibrant, fast-moving, yet unshowy energy to CRA, which moves briskly from one ornate setting to the next (though none of the film’s visuals can match the majesty that is Ken Jeong’s Versace bomber jacket, which looks like it was flown in from Sgt.Pia Ceres, WIRED, 20 Aug. 2018
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Jennifer Kale is a witch who is very guarded and needs to learn how to trust people, and keeps getting tested on that over and over again throughout the show.Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Our spirits remain guarded, but high, for this one; the Venice Film Festival crowd seemed to eat it up.Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 3 Sep. 2024
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“Unemphatic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unemphatic. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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