Examples of unemphatic in a Sentence
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The beat is steady and usually unemphatic; the song circles through three chords again and again.
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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.
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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.
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Lili Anolik,
Vanities,
14 Dec. 2017
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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
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“Unemphatic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unemphatic. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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