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单词 unemphatic
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Definition of unemphatic in English:

unemphatic

adjectiveʌnɪmˈfatɪkʌnɛmˈfatɪk
  • (especially of tone or a gesture) not emphatic.

    an unemphatic ‘yes’
    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.

Derivatives

  • unemphatically

  • adverbˌʌnɪmˈfatɪkliˌʌnɛmˈfatɪkli
    • This is more or less the theory adopted by the majority of modern scientists, either unemphatically or emphatically.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The story unemphatically revolves around the main character, Chris Gardner, and his son, Christopher.
      • Typically, this part of the film is edited so unemphatically that it appears to place equal emphasis on the little boy's bed-wetting and the death of his mother.
      • I consider myself unemphatically to be a Conservative Republican and no longer will I apologize for it.
      • The moral power of Fussell's narrative is all the greater for being so unemphatically delivered.
 
 
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