Definition of unemphatic in English:
unemphatic
adjectiveʌnɪmˈfatɪkʌnɛmˈfatɪk
(especially of tone or a gesture) not emphatic.
Example sentencesExamples
- Variety, meanwhile, observed that ‘Altman takes an elegant, appealingly unemphatic look at the world of ballet’.
- They shunned the Impressionists' hazy unemphatic diffusion of colour.
- The Eustace Diamonds ends the epic length of its story on a remarkably unemphatic note.
- The flowing, unemphatic full-length lines which had characterized the dress of both sexes since late antiquity were gradually abandoned.
- Stewart pauses, half hesitant, as he backs away, a step or two extra: the first unemphatic hint of a change of mind.
- Brockovich's unemphatic insistence on the economic struggles of ordinary working people is a perfect instance of Soderbergh's essentially sympathetic sensibility.
- ‘Yes,’ he agreed, his tone quiet and unemphatic, and regarded her with what seemed to be mingled perplexity and embarrassment.
- Robinson remembered him saying ‘the most strange things in the most unemphatic manner, speaking of his visions as any man would of the most ordinary occurrence.’
- This was the language of the English and Scottish Enlightenment: sober, unemphatic, good-humoured; a very sociable and moderate language, modern in a way that even we would recognise, and supremely rational and down-to-earth.
- The colours, like delicately tinted porcelain, of the gods, figurines rather than figures, accord with the unemphatic grace of the composition.