| 单词 | unilluminating |
| 例句 | The problem is usually ascribed to partisanship, a description Miss Manners finds unilluminating. Perspective | Miss Manners: Removing politics from friendly get-togethers 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z The various votes for “likes” in the museum are equally unilluminating. Critic?s Notebook: From Picassos to Sarcophagi, Guided by Phone Apps 2010-10-02T02:11:00Z About halfway through the book, I began skimming the flashbacks, the majority of which were repetitive and unilluminating, to get to the next narrative-present scene. Eduardo Sacheri's 'Papers in the Wind' 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z A study in denial, “American Anarchist” may be illuminating for being unilluminating. Review: ‘American Anarchist’ Is a Frustrating Study in Denial 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z Some things about the inoffensive, unilluminating, unmoving live staging are clearer without the busy AR imagery. At Bayreuth, the Work on Wagner’s Operas Is Never Done 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z In one of the production’s arresting but unilluminating gestures, the theatricality of the enterprise is emphasized by having the play presented as a sort of half-dress rehearsal. Theater Review: ‘Les Liaisons Dangereuses’ Opens at Lincoln Center 2013-07-12T22:07:59Z To that same embellished end clothes are also laid out like costumes, makeup is applied and wigs adjusted in a needless amplification of the unilluminating idea that Elizabeth and her children are all playing roles. Movie Review: ‘The Eye of the Storm,’ With Geoffrey Rush 2012-09-06T22:03:02Z Kelley Walker’s series of prints based on an old magazine ad in which Andy Warhol acts as a spokesman for Pioneer audio equipment is a strenuously involuted but unilluminating comment on mechanical reproduction. Art Review: ?Print/Out? and ?Printin? ?at the Museum of Modern Art 2012-02-16T23:07:07Z At the same time the approach proved satisfyingly unilluminating in its willingness to leave the meaning of Mozart’s final year the eternal unanswered question it must, like all worthwhile spiritual pursuits, remain. Why 1791 in 2017? Gustavo Dudamel searches for meaning in Mozart's last year 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z Such arbitrary, unilluminating comparisons could be drawn between any real person and any number of fictional characters. Books of The Times: ?Mrs. Nixon: A Novelist Imagines a Life,? by Ann Beattie - Review 2011-12-12T22:55:42Z But take the average, and you’re right back in the comfortable, unilluminating middle. Perspective | The media feel safest in the middle lane. Just ask Jeff Flake, John Kasich and Howard Schultz. 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z “I don’t normally choreograph,” Mr. McKie said in one of the unilluminating and sometimes unintentionally comic videos that introduced each piece. Dance Review: Youth America Grand Prix Gala Inspires Young Dancers 2014-04-13T21:19:48Z It’s possible to admire the four directors’ unflinching depiction of the dying process, but the film is mostly unilluminating and grim — not least because almost all of the deaths discussed are untimely. ‘A Will for the Woods,’ a Documentary About Natural Burial 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z On that front, the indictment unsealed on Tuesday is disturbingly unilluminating, and the theory on which it rests is debatable at best, unnervingly flimsy at worst. Opinion | The Trump indictment is a dangerous leap on the highest of wires 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z Again and again she falls back on derivative, unilluminating beats, as when the horrors of daily drudgery are conveyed by repeatedly smash-cutting to closeups of sizzling bacon and eggs. Review: Olivia Wilde's scandal-ridden 'Don't Worry Darling' isn't good — or bad — enough 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z If the goal is to relay what a miasma of suspicion and despair the water crisis created, “Flint” certainly suggests that, if regrettably by being its own well-intentioned if messy, unilluminating chronicle. Review: 'Flint: Who Can You Trust?' documentary is as messy as the water crisis it chronicles 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z But step back and ask: Why in the world do we require 1,200 government officials to go through the time-consuming, often unilluminating and even counterproductive Senate confirmation process? Opinion | For Biden, 44 confirmations down, only 1,156 to go 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z In his opinion, Roberts argued that "the cited statements are unilluminating." Justice Sotomayor says her colleagues are "overlooking" Trump's bigotry 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z Several justices asked no questions or only unilluminating ones, and others interrogated both sides vigorously, making it unusually hard to draw definitive conclusions about where the court seemed headed in the case, Kelly v. Supreme Court Appears Skeptical of ‘Bridgegate’ Prosecution 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z “Republican talking points” retort is unilluminating at best, pernicious at worst. Opinion | What Democrats should be talking about 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Time agreed, citing "plenty of unilluminating blather spewed by both candidates". Barack Obama chides 'wacky' Trump after Putin jibe - BBC News 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z If “Genius” is a failure — and by the generally unilluminating standards of most mainstream movies about the creative process, I’m not entirely sure that it is — it succeeds in being a noble, even charming one. No work of 'Genius,' this literary drama is strictly by-the-book 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z I was barely listening to Jackson’s answers, which were consistently unilluminating. My surreal 1980 interview with Michael Jackson: ‘Direct your questions to Janet; she’ll put them to Michael’ 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z A section in the Justice Department settlement’s statement of facts said black boxes in other Ion crashes were “unilluminating.” GM Does U-Turn in Ignition-Switch Motion 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z The elaborate reports and extensive preliminary arrangements compare oddly with the early sporting events undertaken on the spur of the moment and recorded only in meagre, unilluminating paragraphs. The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South 2012-01-24T03:00:26.933Z A tongue of clean blue unilluminating flame wavered in the center of its summit. Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z One of Hal and Hank’s sisters, Jenny, is seen in two cheerful if unilluminating stadium scenes, but she does not answer any questions. TV Sports: ?House of Steinbrenner? Fails to Convey a Compelling Story 2010-09-08T03:10:00Z Even its connection with one of the most terrible and widely known passages in the Inferno cannot make it other than dreary, sordid, and unilluminating. Villani's Chronicle Being Selections from the First Nine Books of the Croniche Fiorentine of Giovanni Villani “For each of these Ion crashes in which the subject vehicles evidently lost power before impact, the SDM data recovered from the crashed vehicles was unilluminating,” prosecutors wrote. GM Does U-Turn in Ignition-Switch Motion 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z Every one says the same thing,—Dorothea, you, himself,—and it is so unilluminating! An Unknown Lover Comparisons with the environs of Naples or Florence visited in an automobile, or with the suburbs of Boston seen from a trolley-car, are futile and unilluminating. Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land Impressions of Travel in Body and Spirit These modern critics, with their cult of "the unique phrase" and the "sharply defined image," are just as intolerant as the old judicial authorities whose prestige they scout; just as intolerant and just as unilluminating. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations We are compelled to apply this unilluminating and tantalizing word to all these three aspects of "objective mystery," because no other word really covers the complex vision's actual experience. The Complex Vision Meanwhile the known facts about the murder of Don Delcasar remained few, simple and unilluminating. The Blood of the Conquerors Other replies were equally unilluminating and I desisted, remembering that the Germans despise us because we are devoid of military enthusiasm. The Amateur Army The news came by two channels: first, a brief and unilluminating paragraph in the newspaper, giving little more than the fact itself. The Seeker And this work will be insufferably tedious and, taken by itself, may be very unilluminating. The Unity of Civilization The curtains were drawn apart, and the blinds drawn up, and the windows framed squares of unilluminating yellow. Jaffery But at the same time I felt that I was in duty bound not to content myself with these unilluminating words, but to endeavour to see more clearly into the sources of my enjoyment. Swann's Way In fact, the point of von Schlegel's pretentious, unilluminating book is to rehabilitate Christianity by making it the key to that new conception of life which had taken shape among the enemies of the Church. The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth That refuge had its sequestered glades, if perchance it was unilluminating and rather heavily decorous; so that he could let the climbers, the toadies, the gold-spillers, and the bribers have the middle of the road. The Judgment House "I don't know what I'm going to do any more than you do," was the unilluminating answer. T. Tembarom "Which is just what I am trying to do, you unilluminating old donkey!" When the World Shook; being an account of the great adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot My earlier love affairs were encounters of sex, under conditions of furtiveness and adventure that made them things in themselves, restricted and unilluminating. The New Machiavelli |
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