| 单词 | unimaginative |
| 例句 | Othell Yarwyck was as stolid and unimaginative as he was taciturn, and the First Rangers seemed to die as quick as they were named. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He thought perhaps she was dozing off; it had to be why she was not talking about somebody’s ghastly dress or the unimaginative hors d’oeuvres that had been served. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Odile’s French mother had imparted to her a thorough contempt for the unimaginative way in which most Englishmen eat and house themselves. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Indeed, Ragwort, the most unimaginative rabbit alive, had actually heard it underground. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The plan of the living quarters was as unimaginative as a first-generation Greek landlord could contrive it to be. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, the programs we have at present are too often transcriptions onto television monitors of unimaginative lists of routine exercises taken from the textbooks. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Since that moment, I had felt the weight of somebody else’s living, throbbing, unimaginative hatred on my body. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z “A cowshed. How unimaginative. I really would have expected Capricorn to at least have a proper dungeon for his prisoners.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Her practical reasoning last night now seemed cowardly, unimaginative. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z But Casey was such an unskilled and unimaginative rookie at doling out consequences, and what he came up with hardly seemed that humiliating to me, although it did sound pretty risky. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Those who had trouble completing the unimaginative, unvaried course of calisthenics did not always agree, but I was ready for any break from the tedium of the class-room. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, the Brazilians looked at the fourth main haplogroup—Haplogroup A is its unimaginative name—which is almost completely absent from Siberia but found in every Native American population. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Besides, her parents had always been monstrously unimaginative. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z “Flipping burgers. That’s reliable. Not very imaginative, but reliable. Come to think of it, it’s the perfect job for me. I’m reliable and unimaginative.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z “Facts are for the unimaginative,” Jesper said with a dismissive wave. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z They were both thirsty, so they decided to be totally unimaginative and head to the cafe across the street for bottles of water. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z One of the gunners makes unimaginative comments about the smoke, a dead horse he can see at the base of the walls, the intensity of certain quadrants of fire. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z It seems to feature in almost every track on 's second album of relentlessly unimaginative house, each excessively Auto-Tuned Euro-club banger indistinguishable from the next – and from so much of the rest of the charts. Alexandra Burke: Heartbreak On Hold – review 2012-06-02T23:05:23Z Had he deliberately set out to go from screenwriting to directing, he said, “it would have been more difficult, because I started out writing comedies, and Hollywood is very unimaginative.” This Time, Kenneth Lonergan Has the Last Say 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Will Academy voters award another white-savior film — that is, another lazy, unimaginative feel-good story for white people, where racism is a personal flaw that a well-intentioned white character just needs to overcome? Spike Lee vs. white savior films: "BlackKklansman" Oscar nod is nearly 30 years overdue 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z While he is largely stuck with repeating a single, unimaginative stunt — ironically, it’s bursting a chain that encircles his chest — simple-minded Gelsomina delights in fantasy and spontaneous performance. Film Forum Is Reopening With a Classic: Fellini’s ‘La Strada’ 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z The music that actually is new — that purports to find direct inspiration in either the righteousness of the demonstrators or the plight of the 99 percent — is generally unimaginative, hokey, disappointingly safe. Trust me on this: The Beatles’ “Let It Be” 2012-05-29T22:30:00Z Fifteen months later, Michael Grade, controller of BBC1, was publicly dismissing Nathan-Turner's production team as complacent and their work as tired, violent and unimaginative. JN-T: The Life and Scandalous Times of John Nathan-Turner by Richard Marson – review 2013-03-22T16:30:04Z But there’s scant evidence of that in this clumsy pastiche, which relies on unimaginative video projections and clanging dialogue signifiers to denote time and place. Theater Review: ‘Forever Dusty’ at New World Stages 2012-11-21T21:57:24Z He portrays her as brittle, dislikable, unimaginative — a scientist who’d struck gold and was now overzealously controlling access to her star patient. ‘Patient H.M.’ Recalls the Story of a Surgery That Took a Man’s Memories 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z The work is conservative, unimaginative and anachronistic, and it pales by comparison to the classical masters it emulates. 2010-02-15T06:00:00Z Some bits, like that of the letter-by-letter “Spell It Out” and the unimaginative “We Are a Crowd,” just don’t connect. The Lonely Island Make Funny on The Wack Album 2013-06-14T18:49:47Z If Nationwide is so desperately unimaginative to pay them for something that was momentarily funny many, many, many years ago, then more fool them. The Hard Sell: Nationwide 2010-07-02T23:06:00Z He famously objects, for example, to the word "Holocaust" – "a euphemism, a cowardly and unimaginative glibness". Dossier K by Imre Kertész – review 2013-07-13T07:30:00Z Undoubtedly the usual knickers will be twisted by Mr. Hirst’s latest grandstanding: He’s so unimaginative, so crassly commercial, not a real artist and so forth. Art Review: Damien Hirst Spot Paintings at Gagosian in 8 Cities - Review 2012-01-12T20:22:52Z What makes “Leap Year” so singularly dispiriting is precisely that it is bad without distinction — so witless, charmless and unimaginative that it can be described as a movie only in a strictly technical sense. 2010-01-08T03:34:00Z My smug sneering at this unimaginative venue quickly turned to awe when I saw gowns from the Costume Institute archives. 2010-01-29T14:30:00Z Mr. Veneciano wants to overturn what he sees as the secularist prejudices of academic art historians and unimaginative museum curators. Op Art Through a Latin Lens 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z As you might imagine, seeing someone getting a custodial sentence for making jokes, however disgusting and unimaginative they are, didn't exactly play well among people whose job it is to make jokes. Matthew Woods deserves support as much as airport tweeter Paul Chambers 2012-10-12T08:20:03Z Conductors in opera know all too well what it is like to find themselves collaborating with an agenda-driven, avant-garde or simply unimaginative director. The Conductor Will Also Direct 2011-07-14T22:44:55Z If the film is at times unimaginative as a work of art, it succeeds as a humane resource for understanding an unthinkable scenario. ‘Fatal Distraction’ Review: Parents Go Through the Unthinkable 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z Despite the novelty concept, his direction was unimaginative, shifting the chorus in clumsy blocks and plonking the soloists front-of-stage to deliver their arias. Semiramide ? review 2011-08-29T17:30:00Z Yelp reviewers tend to offer unimaginative, useless notes like “The location is great, service is superb, and food is epic.” Yelp vs. Food Critics 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z However, the film split critics with one unimpressed reviewer calling it a "promotional documentary" and "an unimaginative concert movie." Guns N' Roses plan 3D concert film 2013-01-22T16:18:16Z The closest-held secret of modern scam artists is how woefully unimaginative they really are. Our Never-Ending ‘Scam Season’ 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z Like for season 2, when we were changing our theme song, I said, ‘Let’s see Game of Thrones do that, you unimaginative a–holes.’ Rachel Bloom: 'I Will Gladly Play a Dead Whore' on 'Game of Thrones' 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z It's a testament to the stars that they manage to sell the third act sentimentality after wading through so much screenplay triteness and unimaginative direction. 'Cas & Dylan' is terminal despite great practitioners of acting 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Somehow Mr. Cole and Mr. Krane, with the help of Phillip George’s unimaginative direction, have turned the bizarre experience of a lifetime into something tedious. | 'The Road to Qatar!': Let?s Sing About People Who Don?t Speak Like Us 2011-02-04T23:19:12Z Blending contemporary American, Italian, Japanese, even Burmese cuisines with Caribbean Creole classics, it's a rare culinary treat in a country where many state-run and independent restaurants serve up dull, unimaginative fare. New York meets Cuba in art-fair chef exchange 2012-05-12T21:31:04Z Lighter in tone than The Girl, Hitchcock is a portrait of an extraordinary artist, a crafty hoodwinker triumphing over the unimaginative front-office suits and bureaucrats of the studios and the censorship boards. Hitchcock – review 2013-02-10T00:05:00Z The job of creating the commission somehow falls to an unimaginative assistant, Cornélia, even though she has never in her life “managed to produce a single artistic gesture.” Review: ‘A Room in India’ Overflows With Astonishing Visions 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z But in the finale, the fire looks poorly animated, the direction is incredibly unimaginative, and it seems to go on forever, cutting back to Clarke’s naked and firelit breasts again and again and again. “Game Of Thrones” recap: Nobody puts Dany in a corner 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z A surprisingly unimaginative nightmare, that, as we near the end, seems to have repeated itself. How Stephen Colbert's defiant honesty helped me navigate the madness of 2020 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z Or are we, like Jeremy's unsympathetic colleague in the geology faculty who ridicules Vi, narrow‑minded and unimaginative? Sisterland by Curtis Sittenfeld – review 2013-06-13T14:58:19Z I think people who are ageist are just unimaginative, just as I think people who discriminate on any grounds are unimaginative. "I want to be like Betty White": Jacki Weaver on success after 60 and why ageism is "unimaginative" 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z But the unbearable whiteness of this film isn't especially surprising or offensive, just depressingly lazy and unimaginative. "Prince of Persia" royally blows it 2010-05-28T00:20:00Z No crossed chives, the tell-tale mark left by the unimaginative chef. How to eat: lasagne 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z But some critics suggest that what the band calls “continuum” is just a nice way of describing unimaginative recycling of old material. Pink Floyd’s Endless River Is Just the Latest Album to Recycle Old Material 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z The recording technology of loops and samples encourages unimaginative producers to repeat something merely adequate for the length of a song rather than developing or enriching it. Music: Want a Hit? Keep It Simple 2010-12-31T19:49:03Z The setting is admissible, if unimaginative: the exterior of the estate appears constructed of Playmobil; coated in cobwebs, its dingy indoors most closely resemble a dungeon. ‘The Invitation’ Review: Bringing Down the Haunted House 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z The music that actually is new — that purports to find direction inspiration in either the righteousness of the demonstrators or the plight of the 99 percent — is generally unimaginative, hokey, disappointingly safe. Protest music?s odd conservative turn 2012-05-21T15:38:00Z She critiques the unthinkingness of contemporary choreography, charging that it veers aimlessly from unimaginative imitation to strident innovations usually in the form of gymnastic or melodramatic excess, accentuated by overzealous lighting and special effects. Fox’s populist dance spectacle 2012-09-18T18:08:00Z But both are a lot more biting and funny than the HBO series “Looking,” an up-close-and-personal depiction of gay life in San Francisco that is careful, slow and unimaginative. ‘Togetherness’ Joins ‘Girls’ on HBO’s Sunday Night Roster 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z Still, the concert footage, from his Madison Square Garden show last August, is rote and unimaginative; Mr. Bieber still doesn’t know how to fill the huge rooms that he’s been allowed to take over. Critic?s Notebook: On Screen, the Frenzied Yet Friendly World of Justin Bieber 2011-02-14T23:23:01Z Often it translated into a rather dreary, unimaginative if sometimes brightly colored social realism. Thrilling new exhibition shows modern Mexican art is bigger than murals 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z This is a strong, if unimaginative album — Jeezy is confident in what he’s done, and uninterested in tweaking it. New Music From Earth, Yob and Jeezy 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z To imply that everyone in the industry got there by accident and/or is desperate to leave as soon as possible to become a war reporter is insulting as well as unimaginative. Breaking news: why does Hollywood gloss over the world of magazine journalism? 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z When a martial arts mania swept the nation, comics responded with a number of characters including Shang-Chi, Iron Fist and Richard Dragon, many of them clad in somewhat unimaginative combat attire. Costume Drama: The Highs and Lows of Superhero Uniforms 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z But in a more dispiriting sense, “Hollywood Game Night” also serves as another reminder that we live in a sad, unimaginative era of acquiescence to celebrity status. ‘Hollywood Game Night’ and the problem with the celebrity fun bus 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z Where many annotated editions come across as perfunctory and unimaginative, this one truly illuminates its text with an abundance of relevant historical, biographical and literary material. Review | Ulysses S. Grant, perennially misunderstood, gets a thorough re-examination 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z A Rusting Rose By Any Other Name: Washington State Ferries, in keeping with its tired, unimaginative tradition of naming its boats after Native-American phrases conjured up by schoolchildren, has christened a new ferry “Chimacum.” Zoo to elephant activists: You wanted them moved, right? 2014-11-22T05:00:00Z Robert Hogan interestingly chooses to play Rutherford small and quiet, as a petty, unimaginative killer of dreams. Theater Review: ?Rutherford & Son? at Mint Theater 2012-02-29T00:18:13Z Director Walter Dallas counters the unimaginative dramaturgy by drawing an energized performance from Wilson: The pace is brisk, the stories charge forth, and Wilson prowls the intimate lab space left and right. Review | ‘Thurgood’ serves Justice Marshall in George Stevens Jr. tribute drama 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z I find 90% of this art form to be boring, banal and unimaginative. Street art is dying ? and it's our fault 2011-08-25T15:04:58Z Hunt also cites “unimaginative” executive-suite decisions that reduce diversity to a choice between Black or white hires which he said underscores the need for other ethnic groups to fill decision-making roles. TV looks more like US, viewers like it, diversity study says 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z After an early design that local officials rejected in 2013 for being unimaginative, Gehry submitted his vision, which includes two high-rise towers, and was approved the following year. As the Broad museum opens, a broader look at Grand Avenue development 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z There’s no shortage of optically unimaginative moments, such as the point at which, in Istanbul, Felicity Jones puts on a dark headscarf and immediately starts trying to plant a bomb. “Inferno,” a Movie Even Tom Hanks Couldn’t Save 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z But it’s slightly easier to forgive unimaginative programming when the performance is as spirited and full-bodied as it was with Yefim Bronfman as soloist. Review: The Philharmonic Tries Out Another Temporary Home 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z Naturally — this being a relatively unimaginative plot — Kate betrays her principles within the first five minutes of the movie, murdering a yakuza gang member in front of his daughter. ‘Kate’ Review: Lost in Assassination 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z They are weighty and unimaginative, smooth boulders that simply won’t stop rolling. Live Music Is Back! (Live Music Is Back?) 2021-08-08T04:00:00Z And the mini bar was pedestrian, with an unimaginative selection of Champagne, nuts and candy. Hotel Review: The Peninsula, Beverly Hills, Calif. 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z The genre’s emphasis on potential mass death is obsessive and unimaginative. Review: ‘X-Men: Apocalypse,’ a Sequel 5,000 Years in the Making 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z I just couldn't imagine why anybody would want to read such a twee, simpering narrative, overwritten and unimaginative. Rereading Stephen King, chapter 22: The Eyes of the Dragon 2013-06-20T15:00:35Z It is, ultimately, narrow-minded and unimaginative to demand narratives of deprivation and vengeance from our young MCs, and dismiss anything else as inauthentic. Tinie Tempah ? review 2010-10-16T23:06:00Z Both their adverts are unimaginative, their presentations polished but dull. The Apprentice final: make mine a Stella 2010-12-19T22:14:00Z Here, the few glimpses into Penny’s perspective invariably reveal her to be petulant, humorless, selfish and unimaginative. ‘The Children’s Crusade,’ by Ann Packer 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z They are hardly pedestrian in the other sense of the word, however — which is to say, ordinary, unimaginative or uninspired. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z Wagner was a revolutionary, unlike his often unimaginative fans. Bayreuth festival: Lohengrin 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z Mr. Hall’s unimaginative direction and the show’s lulling, pedestrian rhythms forestall any danger of being truly engaged with either plot. Television Review: ‘Restless,’ With Charlotte Rampling, on the Sundance Channel 2012-12-06T23:19:05Z She found it prosaic and unimaginative, and duly awarded it just one star. Twelfth Night and Jesus Christ Superstar – reader reviews 2012-09-28T14:43:44Z IN the remaining two and a half days, I never felt constrained by transportation networks or funneled into tourist traps by unimaginative advisers. Lost in Java 2011-05-06T20:26:42Z Photograph: Helen Maybanks Too static, too visually blaring, too short on tunes, too mechanical, too unimaginative. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – review 2013-07-01T06:00:08Z Sure, there are occasional bouts of earnestness, but much of the material is playful and even peppy, with passages set to an unimaginative assortment of show tune instrumentals and classical jingles. Review: Helen Keller’s Words and Seven Actors in ‘Three Days to See’ 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z But this is thin, unimaginative hack work, and it lacks the deranged seriousness and commitment that distinguishes a pleasurable misfire from bland dreck like this. ‘Beast’ Review: More Bore Than Roar 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z Then there are movie posters — the vast majority, in fact — so banal and unimaginative that they barely register even as one is looking right at them. 007 Movie Posters: Five Decades of Bond 2012-11-09T13:00:57Z Mr. Kelly is a patient, if unimaginative, filmmaker, but the movie’s unvarying tone and unquestioning indulgence of Michael’s repetitive spiritual flailings quickly become tiresome. Review: ‘I Am Michael’ Portrays a Gay Activist Seeking to Be Straight 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z Were the video simply unimaginative distraction, which it was, that might not have been an intractable problem. Beth Morrison's '21C Liederabend. Op. LA' at Disney Hall was a good idea (but next time, rethink the presentation, please) 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z Even the way that Webster has been directed to stand and hold her baby feels unimaginative—a vignette, of sorts, of endangered motherhood, that indicates little interesting about her, her baby, or the scene itself. Feed Ramsay Bolton to the dogs already: “Game of Thrones”’ biggest villain should be more interesting than this 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z The different experiences of deafness that these two generations have are the focus here, in a movie that, Teo Bugbee wrote in her review for The Times, is “sweet, but formally unimaginative.” What’s on TV Wednesday: A Michelle Wolf Special and ‘Moonlight Sonata’ 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z Born to a middle-class Irish Catholic family in Depression-era Massachusetts, Bill was raised just outside Boston; as a little boy, he loved fashion more than he longed for anything as unimaginative as social acceptance. Bill Cunningham Was So Alive 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z The solution is something I’ve been meaning to do for a while: cook more meals with vegetables as the stars rather than as the unimaginative side dish to the meat. Our gigantic problem with portions: why are we all eating too much? 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z He went on to call the programme "criminally unimaginative", "unintentionally amusing" and full of "tired" cliches. Mixed reviews for BBC gymnastics show 2014-08-10T04:00:00Z “Even in context, this sentiment seems conveniently unimaginative, a rationale for limiting the scope of one’s action,” Caplan wrote. Making Art in a Time of Rage 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z Is the capital's rash of new skyscrapers the result of lazy, unimaginative designs waved through by council planners for political and commercial gain? Tall buildings 2013-04-16T08:11:11Z Kimmy‘s first season made its share of missteps. A dull musical sequence, “Daddy’s Boy,” existed to make the unimaginative point that “Daddy” could refer to a father or a sex partner. Review: Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is TV's Most #Problematic Show 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z “Waves” proved a far more impressive and involving piece than Albert Roussel’s dully unimaginative Concerto for Small Orchestra from 1927, which opened the program proper. Music in Review 2011-03-21T22:54:38Z The characters are not likable, the dialog is boring and unimaginative, and the only compelling moments, such as the dilemmas of husband shooting ex-wife and son shooting mother, are direct steals from that other show. ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 2, Episode 2: The World Said Enough 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z The controller is unimaginative but fine, and does feature a handy mouse touch-pad in the middle. OUYA console – review 2013-06-29T23:05:11Z Ted – An unimaginative, dead-eyed concept brought to life by truly funny moments and likeable performances from the ensemble. Open thread: Who are the best on-screen couples? 2012-08-10T13:14:33Z For actors of all ages, there is always a Martin Freeman: an actor of similar age and appearance who becomes the go-to guy or girl du jour for lazy casting directors and unimaginative producers. The Secret Actor on the inescapable competitor 2013-05-13T06:00:16Z Stewart suggests a photographer with an eye toward the standard genera scene beloved by the more unimaginative painters of the age, and it’s lovely in a limited, easily grasped and quickly forgotten sort of way. Review | Before the West, there was the East, and it was wild 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z In the early and mid-2010s, Yankee released a spate of albums, but many of them lacked dimension and verve, relying on unimaginative commercial tropes. Daddy Yankee, Reggaeton’s First Global Star, Steps Aside 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z It's what so many unimaginative, formulaic TV documentaries – including this one – do. TV review: William at 30 2012-06-07T21:00:03Z The book received largely negative reviews, with many complaining that the tips she offered were obvious and unimaginative. Pippa Middleton to write column for magazine 2013-02-25T18:47:08Z The unveiling of Apple Music this month drew some jeers, with many critics seeing it as an unimaginative collection of features available elsewhere. Zane Lowe, the D.J. Scratching Out Beats 1 for Apple 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z It is a catalogue of atavistic brutalities and yet strangely unimaginative in its celebration of violence. Immolation of Jordanian pilot aims to drag us back to barbarism 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z Christmas television viewing figures were at their highest in at least a decade this year, despite a schedule that most critics derided as unimaginative. Christmas television viewing at 10-year high despite 'unimaginative' schedule 2010-12-26T22:43:11Z “There is a presumption on the part of producers and directors that the audience is either stupid, unimaginative or both.” ArtsBeat: Paulus Responds to Sondheim 2011-08-11T19:45:07Z There were aspects of theater that were getting too unimaginative. For Your Ears Only: Broadway’s New Stage Is a Mic 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z Florence’s unimaginative mission in life was to marry a rich man, and after a failed starter marriage, she became the third wife of Frank Gould, son of the infamous millionaire railway tycoon Jay Gould. The Amazing Life of a Robber Baron’s Daughter-in-Law, With Caveats 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z But the first production to reach the U.S., at Houston Opera and New York City Opera that same year, was unimaginative. Akhnaten as you've never seen him: How L.A. Opera delivers Philip Glass' Egyptian Pharaoh tale 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z When we discuss the fad for cinematic universes, with their unimaginative bloat and paucity of ideas, we tend to overlook Lego. Bricking it: why the Lego movie franchise is on shaky foundations 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z Referring to Adolf Eichmann, it implies that those involved in the final solution were unimaginative clerks. Moral Combat: A History of World?War II by Michael Burleigh 2010-06-11T23:15:00Z What the idea sounds like, frankly, is less a spinoff than plain old unimaginative development–let’s do another version of something that’s worked before!–dressed up as a new concept. Please Do Not Make a How I Met Your Mother Spinoff 2013-10-31T13:46:34Z Yes, this cozy nostalgia mash-up earned a record-setting 50 million views within its first 24 hours online, but the video ultimately feels drab and unimaginative, stepping out of the uncanny valley and back into fantasy-land. Perspective | Ariana Grande just stepped into pop’s uncanny valley, and everybody’s going nuts 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z Ruthless property development may yet see most of them perish, with the now valuable land they stand on becoming a place for unimaginative hotels, casinos, resorts, and villas for the rich. Swansongs of a superpower: Russia's secret architecture 2011-02-07T21:31:01Z For the rest of us, “1985” only reinforces what we already knew: An unimaginative rapper is primarily an unimaginative listener. Review | J. Cole is the most divisive rapper in the world. Which side are you on? 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, Oliver disagrees with what he sees as unimaginative Hollywood casting. John Oliver teases return with 'Fifty Shades of Grey' audition 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z The more striking among them, especially Jasmine Hearn, commanded attention, but connections between sections and performers seemed awfully jerry-built and unimaginative, with ensemble bits on the order of “now everybody freeze in a pose.” Three Views of ‘The Motherboard Suite,’ Indoors, Outdoors and Online 2021-05-16T04:00:00Z Cat is unimaginative enough to needle Leo by calling him Sherlock and Columbo. ‘Taxi Brooklyn’ Features Savvy Cabby and Curt Cop 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z A sequence that echoes the beginning of “Antichrist” — in which a young child is lethally endangered by parental neglect — feels crude and unimaginative the second time around. Movie Review: ‘Nymphomaniac: Volume II,’ the Rest of von Trier’s Story 2014-04-03T23:45:12Z The menu for that first evening was ambitious and expensive, prime cuts, unimaginative wine and top shelf booze. Boys’ Night In pork tacos 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z Naming a track after the address of your place of work, whether it's a record shop or a recording studio, might seem a tad unimaginative. Readers recommend: songs about addresses – results 2012-05-24T14:15:23Z Is that such a lazy, unimaginative, horrible thing for a pop star to do? Soft, smooth and steady: How Xanax turned American music into pill-pop 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z The connections between music and the movie screen were unimaginative. 'The Reef' concert had a chance to catch a new wave of fans by pairing surf sounds and scenes 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z So much of today’s B-movie output consists of Xeroxed action movies and unimaginative horror that it’s easy to forget how the Western was once a key corner of that world. ‘Miles Ahead,’ ‘The Exiles’ and More Streaming Gems 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z It's horribly unimaginative, but at least next year's blockbuster season promises to be better. What we want from Hollywood in 2011 2010-12-23T22:00:01Z Mr. Kalfin thought the commercial theaters of the day were limited and unimaginative, and he strove to broaden the theatrical landscape. Robert Kalfin, Founder of an Adventurous Theater, Dies at 89 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z Tell her how dim and unimaginative vulgar language is. What’s Wrong With Books for Christmas? 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z “Chain Letter” is bad in depressing and irritating ways, from the incoherent story to the unimaginative brutality of the killings to the especially cynical, sequel-baiting ending. | 'Chain Letter': Another Argument Against E-Mail 2010-10-01T23:30:00Z Stop using “landscapers” who are too unimaginative or unresourceful to find better tree varieties. Dull fall may sharpen our tree planting skills "He would have been so unimaginative, compared to Jack," she said. New book shows another side to Jackie Kennedy 2011-09-12T03:51:08Z Presumably they will contrast with the monochromatic and sometimes unimaginative sets Robert Jones designed for “Anna Bolena.” Joyce DiDonato Takes On ‘Maria Stuarda’ at the Met 2012-12-30T05:03:03Z Mrs Bridge is portrayed, not unsympathetically, as unimaginative, unthinking, and continually stupefied. Mrs Bridge by Evan S Connell – rereading 2012-06-08T21:55:17Z Historians began revising, some time ago, the earlier judgments of Grant as an unimaginative, bloody-minded general and bumbling president. John McCain: By the Book 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z Yes, there was music from No Doubt, Common and Mary J. Blige, but the performances were vastly outnumbered by dozens upon dozens of dry, unimaginative speeches. Musicians shine, but messaging falls flat at Earth Day rally on Mall 2015-04-18T04:00:00Z Even worse, back in 2007 his fine-dining training in California didn’t help him get a job at what he recalls as a fusty lineup of unimaginative American restaurants. The little Burgh that’s catching food critics by surprise 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z It’s a thoroughly unimaginative ritual that favors the strongest, girthiest, angriest, meatheadiest men in the room — something that completely undermines the inclusive spirit that courses through Turnstile’s music and much of hardcore punk writ large. Turnstile gets physical at Songbyrd Music House 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z Nick Leader says that creative industries can be just as unimaginative as corporate equivalents. ‘I had no idea about the hidden labour’: has the pandemic changed fatherhood for ever? 2021-02-20T05:00:00Z Playing Alan Wake, I kept encountering a great concept suffocated by bafflingly narrow and unimaginative design and embarrassingly derivative and rote storytelling. Video Game Review: Remedy Entertainment?s Alan Wake for Xbox 360 2010-05-19T21:51:00Z Classics like charades and the dictionary game — sometimes called Fictionary, and tweaked for the unimaginative under the brand name Balderdash — call at most for paper and pencils. Down to the Sea Again, Impersonating Writers 2011-07-01T16:12:05Z Not that Ms. Goodwin is unimaginative: she gives Cora distinct personality and allure. Books of The Times: Money May Not Buy You Love, but It Might Help You Land a Spouse 2011-06-26T21:00:06Z Here one could justifiably launch a harangue in HBO’s direction about its unimaginative choices: Served between “Girls” and “Looking,” “Togetherness” is just one more checked box on a sorely limited list of premises. ‘Togetherness’: What? An unhappy married couple? In Los Angeles? Again? 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z I found it disappointing overall -- disappointingly unimaginative in most ways, and tone-deaf in others. "Treme's" cheap, ugly showstopper 2011-05-09T03:09:00Z He also cited "unimaginative and bad movies" across the genre. The Marvels: Superhero movie bombs with lowest MCU box office debut 2023-11-13T05:00:00Z The rookie needs help from his coaches, who have failed him with unimaginative play designs that have often times left him running for cover without any checkdown options. Time has come for the Panthers to make changes to staff, starting lineup following 1-8 start 2023-11-10T05:00:00Z Ms Mulley recalls another trainee's report, which read: "Would make an excellent wife for an unimaginative man." Phyllis Latour: The secret life of a WW2 heroine revealed 2023-10-13T04:00:00Z "Plodding, genre-hopping songs all end up as unimaginative ballads, their dreary lyrics littered with gibberish - though Sheeran's hooks remain strong," she wrote. Ed Sheeran scores seventh straight number one album with Autumn Variations 2023-10-06T04:00:00Z Fame has its demons, and it’s usually the source material for very unimaginative pop music. Music Review: On ‘Scarlet,’ Doja Cat’s demons demand attention — as if it was possible to look away 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z I sent away to the American Diabetic Assn. for its vegetarian cookbook, which I found dull, unimaginative, basically boring and totally confusing in its format. L.A. Affairs: He wasn't into food, and I'm a serious cook. Was this a deal-breaker? 2023-08-25T04:00:00Z And if it’s not his own music, it’s an unimaginative choice: When Jocelyn’s ex enters the picture and Tedros feels threatened, we hear the Weeknd’s cover of John Lennon’s “Jealous Guy.” Commentary: 'The Idol' is no 'Euphoria,' but it reveals a similar misogyny 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z “It’s about as unimaginative as it gets,” said Franklin, the pie chef. The King Has Definite Ideas About Food. But Will Britain Dig In? 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z And where the exercise of one’s imagination can be dismissed as a blandly unimaginative, even conformist gesture? Review: Kelly Reichardt's first comedy is a wincingly funny portrait of an artist at work 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z "We have a problem in the United States with how deeply unimaginative our leaders are in addressing crime," said Kyle Bibby, the senior campaign director at Color Of Change, a civil rights organization. Beyond the protests: The fight against 'Cop City' 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z As minority leader last year, he introduced a tepid and unimaginative Commitment to America pledge that was meant to echo, but lacked the boldness of, former Speaker Newt Gingrich’s Contract with America in 1994. Kevin McCarthy wins his dream job, but at a humiliating and stifling cost 2023-01-07T05:00:00Z Rather, he added, it was a "poor unimaginative attempt to 'sledge', another player". Marler banned for slur about opponent's mother 2023-01-03T05:00:00Z I feel that it makes my kids seem crass, or dull and unimaginative, while also being offensive to some. Advice | Carolyn Hax: Mom thinks her profane adult kids sound ‘crass, or dull’ 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z Sporting a mustache as unconvincing as his performance, he’s defeated by the trite screenplay by Will Davies and the unimaginative direction of Josh Gordon and Will Speck. ‘Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile’ review: A musical showstopper this is not 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z The revelation of the Ukraine conflict — that Russia’s conventional forces were poorly trained, unimaginative and ill-equipped — has made Mr. Putin all the more dependent on his unconventional weapons, an inherently unstable balance of forces. In Washington, Putin’s Nuclear Threats Stir Growing Alarm 2022-10-01T04:00:00Z But “Blonde” is all tragedy, and its single-mindedness isn’t just dull and punishing but also wearyingly unimaginative. Review: 'Blonde' isn't really about Marilyn Monroe. It's about making her suffer 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z Their offense was unimaginative and poorly conceived, while their defense was far too susceptible to big plays, especially on the ground. After last year’s debacle, an air of optimism surrounds Huskies in 2022. Will it last? 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z It’s no secret that the Huskies’ offense the past two seasons was stymied by the unimaginative play-calling of offensive coordinator John Donovan. QB Michael Penix Jr. gives UW Huskies the best chance to soar 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z There are moments of sporadic distinction, but its assembly-line animation, unimaginative needle drops and predictable plot flatten it to something more pedestrian. Review | ‘DC League of Super-Pets’: Supporting cast outshines the marquee names 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z “But we shouldn’t become unimaginative and think that will continue.” ‘None of us has a crystal ball’: Scientists try to keep up with faster coronavirus evolution. 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z Although it has an unimaginative name, the theory has been brilliant at explaining how the subatomic particles come together to create atoms which make up the world around us. Large hadron collider: A revamp that could revolutionise physics 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z Falsely accusing someone of heinous crimes, while unimaginative, is a crude-but-effective way to bully people. The goal of the GOP's QAnon-influenced "groomer" troll: More political violence 2022-04-11T04:00:00Z Osaka had just been broken by her opponent, Veronika Kudermetova, but the heckle — an unimaginative snort but a common one — seemed to break her. Perspective | Naomi Osaka is still hurting, and tennis doesn’t seem to be the cure 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z It might not be universally accepted; it might be boring, unimaginative, clumsily derived, a military coattail and not a panacea to Native Americans. Opinion | More than a name for the Commanders 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z It consists of an unimaginative orchestration of only the “Black” section by Maurice Peress, with some input from Ellington, that practically defies the orchestra to swing. Commentary: The Duke Dilemma: Symphonic Ellington is a mainstay — but still in need of revival 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z The thuddingly unimaginative Disney+ series wastes its unlimited canvas — and inadvertently reveals what a train wreck the MCU’s Multiverse could be. 'Pro-choice' Marvel star Evangeline Lilly says she rallied against vaccine mandates 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z Falsely accusing someone of heinous crimes, while unimaginative, is a crude-but-effective way to bully people. The goal of the GOP's QAnon-influenced "groomer" troll: More political violence 2022-04-11T04:00:00Z Such a predictable response falls in line with other unimaginative takes and inquiries from fans. Perspective | The shaming of Zion Williamson says more about a culture of critics than about him 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z Some snarkily suggest that the — as they see it — unimaginative phrase represents another line of attack in the war on Christmas. Starbucks holiday cups were once a flash point in a ‘war on Christmas.’ Now they’re a meme. 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z It was a synopsis of the potential of this Husky offense that too often this year has struggled to find rhythm and has been stifled by unimaginative play-calling. The Huskies avoided utter embarrassment by salvaging win over Arizona. But long-term issues remain. 2021-10-23T04:00:00Z I understand where the gripers about nomination hoarding are coming from, whether they lay the blame on too much TV or lazy and unimaginative Emmys voters. Perspective | This year’s Emmys are favoring mass appeal over the niche and artsy. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z The Huskies’ offense has been as unimaginative as it has been unproductive – and it has been wildly unproductive. Time to panic? After horrible loss to Michigan, UW’s season is hanging by a thread 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z They wanted a character that was nothing like the mascots already in existence, which tended to be literal, unimaginative translations of team logos into wearable papier-mâché casts. The Mascot Whisperer 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z Pei has said his motivation for starting Nothing was a consumer tech industry that felt stale, unimaginative, and awash in gadgets that all feel very same-y. Nothing Ear 1 earbuds review: almost something 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z The old logo was a plain basketball, dull and unimaginative, with the letters “NBA” printed on the front. Excerpt: The NBA Finals night Jerry West went for 53 and the Logo was born ... maybe 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z The barebones and rather unimaginative set by Vale seems built to be recycled. Review: In 'Tevye in New York!' at the Wallis, 'Fiddler' fiddles once again 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z They tell me it is not unions or leftist influences that get in their way, but unimaginative administrators and limits on class time, problems that predate big teacher unions. Perspective | Big hole in popular view that China beats U.S. in education 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z The display gardens, too, were randomly sited and unimaginative. Opinion | The American Horticultural Society is selling River Farm. Its future looks brighter. 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z As Oscar Wilde said: “Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.” Creative Thinking in both Science and the Arts Is Not for the Faint of Heart 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z The evidence suggests that a catastrophe resulted from ineptitude and the malign actions of a tiny cadre of political officials, not unimaginative bureaucrats or sclerotic agencies. Review | The ‘action heroes’ and roadblocks of the U.S. coronavirus response 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z When an unimaginative skeptic in the crowd wondered at the utility of the newfangled invention, Franklin replied, “What good is a newborn baby?” Child’s play: Chess title combatants go way back 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z My thought on ESL and punishment of English clubs is that sanctions against the clubs is unnecessary and unimaginative. European Super League plans in tatters as English clubs, Atlético and Inter withdraw – live! 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z He said it was "clear that the visual depiction relates to her race" and it was "as offensive and as unimaginative as a 19th Century Punch cartoon". Starbucks customer compensated over 'slanty' eyes drawing on cup 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z The platform’s easiest trash-TV sell since “Tiger King” is an unimaginative snooze, a bland serving of salty language, an insult to creative cursers everywhere. Netflix's 'History of Swear Words' isn't even worth your expletives 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z Who might be Leicester’s greatest threat against an unimaginative Arsenal? 2020 wasn't all bad: sporting tales that lifted the lockdown gloom 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z Zombies, as we know, are highly unemotional and unimaginative, so they are incapable of projecting themselves into a hospital bed. Perspective | The thoughtless husks who plunged this NFL season into chaos deserve a public shaming 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z In a game that was twice postponed because of coronavirus cases among players, the visiting Denver Broncos stunned the sloppy, unimaginative — and likely underprepared — Patriots on Sunday with six field goals in an 18-12 upset. Patriots Struggle to Find Their Way After Schedule Shuffle 2020-10-18T04:00:00Z This hostility to the character of history is also unimaginative and dumb. Editorial Roundup: Pennsylvania 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z Trump has concocted an unimaginative name for his half-baked conspiracy theory, "Obamagate," but has struggled to explain the precise nature of the accusation against the former president. GOP claims outrage on Flynn "unmasking," then votes to allow warrantless computer searches 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z “Kennedy came to office thinking the National Security Council was slow, unimaginative and bureaucratic,” Mr. Beschloss said. Does the Coronavirus Task Force Even Matter for Trump? 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z The idea is to keep viewers guessing up until the end, but the true challenge is sticking with this unimaginative story long enough to find the answers. Why 'Defending Jacob' might be Apple TV+'s first big flop 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z The result was an unimaginative, unthinking society where the human beings were simply another cog in the machine. One of the less horrible of the many dystopian futures visited by the Time Traveller 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z Compared to other mostly schmaltzy or unimaginative bicentennial museum offerings around the country, such a show would stand out. Commentary: Remembering the man whose landmark 1976 exhibition insisted: Black art matters 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z “Birx has brought her special brand of sartorial serenity and strength to the country,” reported The New York Post, noting the physician’s trademark scarves and her lack of angular suits and ‘unimaginative’ dresses. Biden/Cuomo 2020 or Cuomo/Biden 2020? 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z It adds to mounting evidence that the old picture of these ancient people as brutish and unimaginative is wrong. Neanderthals 'dived in the ocean' for shellfish 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z But something about their deployment has always felt stodgy, outdated, unimaginative. Why the Dallas Cowboys opening is the best coaching job on the market 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z Elsewhere, Lerner deploys language with such concision — and is so exacting with his character’s interiority — that using video games as a metaphor is unimaginative and flattens Darren into a stereotype. In ‘The Topeka School,’ Ben Lerner eloquently dissects fragile masculinity, generational trauma and more 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z As early as 2009, she had drawn comparisons to the 44th president, earning the woefully unimaginative nickname the “female Barack Obama”. ‘Don't count her out’: can Kamala Harris salvage a languishing 2020 bid? 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z No one bothered asking Nixon the predictable and unimaginative question, “How will you pay for it?” The conservatism of Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z "At the the time I started my business the high street was very unimaginative and the internet barely existed so online shopping was a no-go for me." Can pre-loved clothes make fast fashion sustainable? 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Writing in The Times on 5 September, George Bernard Shaw called it "a masterstroke of unimaginative stupidity". The town where cinemas stayed open as WW2 began 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z It got a courthouse, a sprawl of frame houses, a fire station in a quonset hut, a baseball diamond, and its unimaginative name. “Wide Spot” 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z Even Rolling Stone, a bullhorn for the counterculture, didn’t entirely dig it: “Their music is loud, boring, tasteless, unimaginative and childish. I kind of like it.” The Survival of Iggy Pop 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z It felt unfortunate to wander out afterward into the increasingly unimaginative and barely hangout-worthy Arts District. Commentary: L.A. needs a summer music festival. Piano Spheres and Monday Evening Concerts show the way 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z She is also rigid and unimaginative — not great qualities for a negotiator. Theresa May packs her bags, her legacy dominated by failure 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z What a small, unimaginative world we would end up with. Tim Cook: 'If you’ve built a chaos factory, you can’t dodge responsibility for the chaos' 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z Thin boundary people may see themselves as “exciting,” “creative” and “innovative” but look upon those with thick boundaries as “dull,” “rigid” and “unimaginative.” Where Are Your Boundaries? 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z It’s a conscious break from the narrow, unimaginative grind of professional politics. Andrew Yang is the candidate for the end of the world 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z We need an honest assessment of the issues, not an unimaginative, trope-driven tale that shrouds bureaucratic miscues. Opinion | D.C.’s problems go way beyond go-go music controversies 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z The biggest threat to innovation is unimaginative thinking by bureaucratic systems. How to Keep Scientific Innovation Alive 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z Karla noticed that the stylist he usually worked with often ran late and seemed unimaginative, and asked if she could do the job instead. The Woman Who Has Styled Justin Bieber, Anita Hill, and the iPod 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z It’s actually presumptuous and unimaginative to make the breathless declaration that this is an era of offense and focus all the attention on offensive coaches for head coaching openings. Perspective | What could top this captivating NFL season? These conference championship matchups. 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z The Alexandria City Council decided unanimously Saturday to name a refurbished park at the foot of King Street “Waterfront Park,” even though the council admitted it’s a lackluster and unimaginative moniker. Alexandria Council names redeveloped space ‘Waterfront Park,’ avoiding city founder who owned slaves 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z What we got was someone small minded, unimaginative, stubborn and shameless. Theresa May Survives Leadership Challenge, but Brexit Plan Is Still in Peril 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z If we dare doubt that what failed in the past will succeed in the future, he implies, we must be unimaginative fanatics. Review | A zealous condemnation of Israel’s zealots 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z How do you turn the typically unimaginative design of a fishbowl on its side without losing its precious inhabitants? 5 Pet Homes That Humans Will Envy 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z After a few episodes, he feels less like an unimaginative villain than he does as wonderfully understated figure, a monster who is more capable than he seems. The best horror show you’re not watching is based on creepypasta 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z Bad gossips, on the other hand, are just like bad readers: inattentive and unimaginative. Letter of Recommendation: Phyllis Rose’s ‘Parallel Lives’ 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z The minimalist camps were neither unimaginative nor merely austere: Instead, they symbolized an earlier America of slow and humble pleasures, where a preindustrial, even feral, childhood was still attainable. Once a Summer Camp, Now a Family Home 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z The chop came with succotash, never the life of the party, but this one, composed largely of chopped green beans and onions, was especially unimaginative, given what’s available in late summer. Fremont’s Le Coin is a comfortable and relaxed spot for the neighborhood 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z Despite its clammy atmosphere and two credible and appealing leads, the movie is mechanical in its rhythms and unimaginative in its terrors. Review: ‘The Nun’ is a jumpy but minimally scary extension of ‘The Conjuring’ universe 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Carr seeks bounce back from down season plagued by back injury, unimaginative offense. Raiders Preview Capsule 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z When I was a kid, the story often was told that the architect died after designing 13 holes, and thus the rather unimaginative finish. Teeing Off | West Seattle G.C. is a municipal course the city can be proud to own 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z She wants to kickstart change by creating a public bank for Chicago to get the city away from high fees and unimaginative distribution of loans. Chicago's deadly summer: guns, gangs and the legacy of racial inequality 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z Far from seeming extraordinary, men and women in capes, masks and electronic suits have now become avatars of the unimaginative and the commonplace — a development that Bird and his collaborators could hardly have anticipated. How the dazzling, overstuffed ‘Incredibles 2’ holds up a cracked mirror to present-day reality 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z And no one enjoys an open game more than Messi, who had been stalled in the first two matches by opponents’ airtight tactics and Argentina’s unimaginative performance. For Argentina, relief, revival and World Cup round of 16, all on late goal vs. Nigeria 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z If they come across as a dutiful yet unimaginative lot, remember that a lifetime of military service rarely nurtures imagination or creativity. Not so great wars — theirs and ours 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z “Our experts describe you as an appallingly dull fellow, unimaginative, timid, lacking in initiative, spineless, easily dominated, no sense of humour, tedious company and irredeemably drab and awful,” Cleese tells Palin. The financial scandal no one is talking about 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z The suit that at first glance looks staid and unimaginative is actually a three-piece pin-striped suit worn with a polka dot bow tie. The Oscar for costume design always goes to the prettiest clothes. But are they truly the best? 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z But there’s such a monotonous, unimaginative tread of cruelty that it loses any shock value or allegorical heft. Netflix’s Altered Carbon misses the point of cyberpunk 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z I have worked with women who were wonderful, brilliant, effective, and women who were deceitful, unimaginative, and destructive. Opinion | Hillary Clinton Ignited a Feminist Movement. By Losing. 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z But instead of inspired football, diehard hopefuls were treated to a sad amalgamation of unimaginative play-calling and even worse quarterback play for almost three full quarters. Jaguars’ defense overcomes offensive clunker, Bills to advance and face Steelers 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z Conventional wisdom says incumbent firms are timid about technological change, scared to cannibalise profits and trapped in an unimaginative mindset. 2018 will be the year that big, incumbent companies take on big tech 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z Having visited most PAC-12 stadiums, the food choices at Husky Stadium are quite limited and unimaginative by comparison. Rant & Rave: Love the Huskies — but not the stadium food 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z Instead, because there is no real ambition beyond survival for most clubs in the lower two-thirds of the table, the same managerial careers and the same unimaginative football keep being reheated. If the Premier League is so strong, why are the promoted sides doing so well? | Paul Wilson 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z Failing to win second balls, sluggishly low in tempo and wholly unimaginative in the passing sphere, they looked prime relegation candidates. Premier League: 10 talking points from the weekend’s action 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z “This is the state of the G.O.P. in a nutshell. It is a party locked in mortal combat between an establishment that is ineffectual and unimaginative and a populist wing that is ineffectual and inflamed.” Right and Left React to Bannon’s Harsh Words for McConnell 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z One precise agent borrowed a phrase from German to complain about unimaginative buyers: “No fingerspitzengefühl” — which is to say, they lacked feeling in their fingertips, or a sensitivity to what the space could be. The Most Common Obstacles to a Sale — and What to Do About Them 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z “America didn’t vote for Hillary because they didn’t like what she represents and rejected her vague, unimaginative vision for the country,” he wrote. Piers Morgan rips Hillary Clinton’s book as ‘whiny, self-pitying, deluded load of literary claptrap’ 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z Light lager represented the unimaginative hegemony of the giant breweries, while pungent pale ales and inky stouts were deemed more flavorful, genuine expressions of the brewer’s trade. Summer’s here, time to drink yellow beer 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z Lotto writes that when you hear the word “science,” “you’re likely to be thinking that science is about the sterility of lab coats and unimaginative facts.” Opinion | Why our grasp of reality is fragile 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z The movie’s kaiju side is merely a fun-house mirror held up to its characters’ emotional troubles, an eccentric mask for a fairly unimaginative story about a young woman trying to get her life under control. Review: In ‘Colossal,’ the inner monsters are literal 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z It was all quite unimaginative, when you think about it. America wasn’t created with democracy in mind: Why Trump would have fit in with our founding fathers 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z Theresa May, the po-faced prime minister, is earnest, methodical, cautious and unimaginative: She is the anti-Trump. Opinion | We’re about to find out exactly how populist Britain really is 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z The puzzles seem on the whole boring and unimaginative. Opinion | The crossword puzzle change is a six-letters across 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z And it’s why while black people celebrated the brilliantly complex portrayals of black women in Orange is the New Black, we blissfully avoided thinking about its unimaginative, poorly developed Asian characters. Adele’s tribute to Beyoncé was a frank admission of privilege. I salute it | Michaela Coel 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z In the absence of a sturdier backbone, “Fabricated City” possesses all the relatable character dimension of an extremely unimaginative gamer tag. In 'Fabricated City,' it's not clear where the game ends and the movie begins 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z However, Mattel was probably hampered during the holiday season, dealing with retailers that were less eager to heavily stock its products after years of unimaginative offerings. Under its new CEO, Mattel partners with Alibaba and launches American Girl's first boy doll 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z “The millions of hats will make excellent keepsakes for those who thought his populist bravado could overcome Clinton’s unimaginative and conventional but well-oiled political machine.” How Donald Trump came up with ‘Make America Great Again’ 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z It might sound like a name dreamt up by an unimaginative spa owner or an all-female pop-band, but in reality it's a professional networking space for women. The successful women embracing ‘girl power’ - BBC News 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z He continued by pleading for more power to the residents: “Sadly, the undemocratic process of appointments has fostered a city council culture that is unresponsive, unimaginative and unprepared for navigating our city into the future.” Want to be part of the next wave of activism? Move to rural America 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z Gold: My least favorite restaurants tend to be pretentious, expensive with unimaginative food. Jonathan Gold reveals where to eat on NYE and the best Chinese food on the Westside 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z That’s been abetted by “depressingly unimaginative” U.S. diplomacy in Asia that is focused too narrowly on military alliances and is now hobbled by Washington’s failure to advance the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade pact, Montesano said. Donald Trump is a mixed blessing for Chinese leaders 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z If you were against Trump, the options varied between conservative and unimaginative. This was the election of disillusionment | Steven Thrasher 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z So far, so unimaginative, but the line judge grassed to the umpire anyway, the umpire grassed to more senior officials, and she was duly disqualified. The Joy of Six: tennis tantrums 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z While dividend payments and share buybacks are all well and good, they're an awfully unimaginative way to boost shareholder returns, and not quite aligned with Apple's own mandate to "think different." Apple Inc. (AAPL) Stock Falters on Q4 Earnings 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z The Scottish actor Ewan McGregor makes a respectable if unimaginative directing debut with “American Pastoral,” yet another adaptation of a Philip Roth novel that mistakes a book’s plot and characters for its artistry. ‘American Pastoral’ is a respectable but dull adaptation of Philip Roth’s novel 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Clinton by contrast appears a relatively safe choice – but would that mean following the unimaginative anti-Iranian groupthink in Washington rather than exploring the opportunities that the Iran nuclear deal should have opened up? Donald Trump is an American Ahmadinejad | Michael Axworthy 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z Again, not entirely unimaginative, but also the type of incendiary remarks that will certainly circulate among the crowds at Hazeltine, and turn poor brother Danny into an unsuspecting target once play begins. Danny Willett's brother goes OFF on American crowds, which does not bode well for Danny Willett this week - Golf Digest 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z The Poole Methodist Church extension was compared to an "unimaginative grey box". Lincoln Plaza luxury Docklands flats win Carbuncle Cup - BBC News 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z Western diplomats in Amman say that in private meetings with Jordanian officials, the solutions proposed to counter radicalism are unimaginative, such as more speeches by King Abdullah. Jordan Struggles With Islamic Extremism at Home 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z "What this often leads to is a constant, unimaginative fight over a relatively small number of individuals and bidding wars which push salaries ever upwards." What can football managers teach business? - BBC News 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z Roberts accused him of being "shy, weak, unimaginative, lacking in drive". Plaid Cymru's first MP 'helped change course of a nation' - BBC News 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z Perhaps the only frustrating thing for Santos about Ronaldo’s presence in the team is the stream of questions - often unimaginative - about the Real Madrid forward. Portugal coach says Ronaldo provoked by booing from Iceland 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z Whether silky and stylish or colorful and wacky, the necktie is considered one of the most timeworn and unimaginative Father's Day gifts of all. 5 Gifts You Shouldn't Buy for Father's Day (and What to Buy Instead) 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z “A lobster is an excellent choice,” she affirms, before deriding all the unimaginative rubes who have chosen dogs. The world in ‘The Lobster’ is dark and twisted, yet not so different from our own 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z This kind of thinking is somewhat foreign to the pundit class, who tend to view politics through a lens of unimaginative pragmatism. “We don’t need a savior”: What Bernie Sanders understands about change in America that everyone needs to remember 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z In truth, it seemed an unimaginative appointment, and Ranieri’s principal aim was to keep Leicester in the division. Leicester City and the greatest underdog story ever told: a primer for Americans 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z It is not fair to say that all developers are “strategically unimaginative” and do not “enjoy creative thinking or the big picture.” Not all developers are like Trump 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z With Manchester United at the moment it seems to be one thing or the other – unimaginative control or unguarded adventure – unless you get bits of both in the same game, as happened at Newcastle. Louis van Gaal should ask Paul Scholes to be a Manchester United coach 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z Here, it’s exploited for an unimaginative mishmash of silly horror objectives. Review: Forgettable horror ‘The Forest’ wastes star Dormer 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Odion Ighalo then netted twice, with a composed finish in the 15th and a header in the 85th, as Liverpool was punished for a stagnant and unimaginative performance. Liverpool loses to Watford, Swansea and West Ham draw 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z The warmth and geniality Trudeau project so effortlessly are not, at least to the incurious or unimaginative, easily reconciled with the demands of the Prime Minister’s office. A charm offensive: the repellent magnetism of Justin Trudeau 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z The unimaginative bouquets most online florists offer, however, are the botanical equivalent of an inflatable Santa Claus. A New Class of Easy-to-Order Holiday Bouquets 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z “I think what we have developed in this country is a consultant class and an insider class,” he said, “that often is very unimaginative and not necessarily connected to the grass roots.” Mayor de Blasio’s Hired Guns: Private Consultants Help Shape City Hall 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z My biggest fear about HTC’s upcoming device is that too many people are going to dismiss it as an unimaginative iPhone clone. How To Copy: HTC's iPhone clone could be the One I've been waiting for 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z Sloppy in possession and unimaginative in attack, the visitors offered little to please the fans who made the long journey from the north east. West Ham United 2-0 Newcastle United 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z Yet, even in the first games of this tournament, Ellis endured withering criticism for a strategy which made the U.S. seem too passive defensively, and too unimaginative in the attack. Keys to a USA Soccer World Cup Win 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z “Bill is basically unimaginative and has never invented anything, which is why I think he’s more comfortable now in philanthropy than technology. He just shamelessly ripped off other people’s ideas.” 10 famous geniuses who basked in recreational drug use 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z Chambers Bay does not cater to the unimaginative mind, and Johnson was at his creative best after withdrawing from Memphis last week due to illness. Dustin Johnson's redemption tour continues with opening round 65: The Loop 2013-10-16T04:00:00Z Who knows if that’s true, or if it’s just another unimaginative excuse after a long, long weekend thinking things over? Sepp Blatter: From Defiant to Defeated in Four Fateful Days 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z In this blog post, Bernanke dispensed advice to Germany that was unimaginative, unadulterated Keynesian orthodoxy—a flawed theoretical paradigm with a dismal track record. Free To Speak His Own Mind, Ben Bernanke Shows Himself To Be An Unreconstructed Orthodox Keynesian 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z The problem is that most of these are unimaginative rehashes and “me-too” documents. How Accounting Firms Waste Time And Money On Thought Leadership 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z The show is similarly unimaginative when it comes to the mega rich titans of tech. On HBO's Silicon Valley, fiction isn't stranger than truth 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z Mr Miliband’s and Mr Cameron’s efforts to prevent that, to shore up their leaky base, is a big reason for their unimaginative campaigns. The shrivelled middle 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z And others from this group of particles are named as if by thoughtless and unimaginative parents: "up", "down", "top" and "bottom" though "charm" does sound a little more, well, charming. What next for the Large Hadron Collider? 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z As an actual shooter, The Order is as unimaginative and mundane as any game that’s even thrown a random chest-high wall on the ground. 'The Order: 1886' Is A Beautiful, Failed Experiment In 'Cinematic' Gaming 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z An attacker going by the rather unimaginative moniker, “Mastermind” breached the online dating site Topface and apparently made off with with 20 million credentials from the company based in St. Petersburg. Topface Facepalms As It Surrenders To Data Breach Hacker Blackmail 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z Because as unimaginative as a lot of these songs are, they’re really just so catchy. This Supercut Shows That "Whoa Oh" Is Incredibly Overused in Modern Music 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z To the political world, the mission is an unimaginative boondoggle short on vision. NASA wants to put humans on an asteroid — but Congress is skeptical 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z It tries to become a story about aging, growing up, and moving on, but it comes across heavy-handed and unimaginative. What movies to see (and skip) in theatres on Christmas Day 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z A year later, after switching to gum, he conceived the prototype for the modern baseball card, supplanting the unimaginative, smallish and often black-and-white offerings of the existing card companies. Sy Berger, Who Turned Boyhood Heroes Into Brilliant Rectangles, Dies at 91 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z This appearance of the divine in the movie gets to another conflict that the film is stirring up: hostility from the unimaginative but devout. Review: 'Exodus: Gods and Kings' -- An Improvement Over DeMille 2014-12-13T05:00:00Z It's beautiful, but Unity is a bland, repetitive, and unimaginative adventure that doesn't do the city justice. 'Assassin's Creed: Unity' review: bigger doesn't mean better 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z Yet on each of those issues, the Democrats are shockingly unimaginative and tepid in their policy approaches. 2014 Midterm Election Shows Both Parties Are in Trouble 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z Here’s the problem… you don’t produce extraordinary performances from ordinary, outdated, unimaginative management practices. Employee Engagement 101 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z The best leave within two or three years - the slightly less good stay a bit longer, and only the also-rans and the terminally unimaginative are in for the long haul. Why firms don't want you to be brilliant 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z Technically, it’s all quite impressive - but, again, unimaginative. Review: Ambitious ‘Destiny’ lacks imagination 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z A good start would be ditching old labels, such as “to protect and serve,” which often mask unimaginative short-term campaigns. The criminal justice system should focus not only on enforcement Though he won 42 of his 60 games in charge of Brazil, Dunga employed a tactical style that was seen as rough and unimaginative. Brazilian Soccer Pursues a Remake by Returning to Its Past 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z No matter how unimaginative your brand story might be, consumers admire the refreshing, personal interaction and humanization your story evokes. Leaders: Stop Hiding Behind Your Brand 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z For the second film, Mr. Abrams let the writers get a bit too clever as they crossed the line between a potentially unimaginative rehash and committing some sacrilege within the “Star Trek” canon. ZADZOOKS: Star Trek: The Compendium review (Blu-ray) 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z How about anything more creative and unimaginative than a dark, unexceptional booth where a kind, but impassive vendor was offering up subscriptions. Why is The New York Times Double-Faulting at the U.S. Open? 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z George Osborne makes Keynes seem stingy and unimaginative. The case for Trident is absurd. Scotland may help us get rid of it 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z In distinguishing between the unimaginative manager and the far-seeing leader, Dr. Bennis said that the former “does things right,” while the latter “does the right thing.” Warren Bennis, leading expert in the principles of effective leadership, dies at 89 Exams in England are "unimaginative, little changed from Victorian times" and fail to ready pupils for the modern workplace, warns Eton's headmaster. 'Victorian exam system fails pupils' 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z It produces conformist, unimaginative people who are desperate for outside approval. Don’t send your kids to Ivy League Schools! This means YOU. Like Electronic Arts, Activision is characterised by the hardcore gaming community as an unimaginative production line of bland money-spinners; a corporate machine where innovation is outlawed. Activision CEO: 'We deal in big budgets and gambles' 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z Emoticons seem pedestrian and unimaginative next to this level of innovation. Adults who use emoji should grow up 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z I had found the book ungainly, dull and shockingly unimaginative, and had said so in my Newsweek review. The Secret Haters of 'The Goldfinch' Grab Their Torches Then small, unimaginative policies are unveiled to answer each individual problem as though it were entirely unrelated to everything else. Watching hungry kids is an ugly form of entertainment 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z Criticized for unimaginative and predictable football, the team qualified for Brazil by the narrowest of margins amid claims of disunity among the players. Son and Co. aiming to enhance South Korea’s status 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z There is no need to fall for unimaginative, faux-macho bullying that tries to scare people into urgency. Changing Cultures Without Burning Platforms 2014-04-29T13:30:00Z For the most part, the team looked lethargic and unimaginative, while the Wigan players, buoyed by their lead, settled back to defend. Arsenal 4, Wigan 2 (SO): Arsenal and Wenger Avoid a Nightmare and Advance to F.A. Cup Final 2014-04-12T20:26:10Z It was lacklustre and unimaginative in every single way. 'Watching France is like watching clowns at the circus' 2014-02-25T11:16:58Z She was startled by what she saw as a climate of unimaginative teaching and fierce competition among staff members, and she set out to overhaul the school. No ‘Mary Poppins,’ School Chief Honed Blunt Style Over 40 Years 2014-01-15T04:12:50Z When I was in high school in the early ’80s, the fully unimaginative consensus was that the mind-blowing and need-to-have reason for a personal computer was kitchen recipe storage. Nanosatellites Will Give Everyone Access To Space 2013-11-10T18:44:00Z Apple, however, is the exception rather than the rule in a tech industry dominated by companies with unimaginative names. Is Your Startup Named Right? 2013-10-14T21:14:00Z I shall not miss unimaginative spokespersons for the state broadcaster, Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, complaining that they have lost or are losing revenue as a result of the live broadcast. Letter from Africa: Life after Ghana's 'greatest show' 2013-09-04T08:56:23Z The upshot for the industry is that you have very few hits funding bloated and largely unimaginative management teams that continually churn out a series of highly unprofitable and unsuccessful ventures. Intense Combat In Video Game Industry Not All Fun And Games For Investors 2013-08-19T18:13:00Z Similar phrases exist in Danish, Czech, Slovene, Hebrew and Icelandic, though we unimaginative American journalists refer to the period as “slow news season.” City Room: New York Today: Cucumber Time 2013-08-19T10:25:00Z The vast majority of products in this industry are unimaginative conflations of human anatomy and similar packaging. Lets Talk About Sex: Silicon Valley Efforts To Reinvent The Adult Toy Industry 2013-07-31T22:31:00Z Building a Dyson sphere? the normally unimaginative New York Times headlined. Think big 2013-07-17T17:20:44.347Z We are talking about unhealthy and unimaginative menus. Burgers and nuggets still dominate UK restaurant children's menus – report 2013-07-16T23:23:42Z The previous one in 2010, conducted while two big wars were raging, was almost deliberately unimaginative. Defence spending: Squeezing the Pentagon 2013-07-04T15:04:16Z Thanks to an unimaginative toy industry that continues to typecast our kids by gender, I’ve turned a family outing into an obstacle course I can’t win without being a killjoy. Shopping for Toys with a Feminist Mom 2013-05-11T05:15:00Z "The politics of Europe is unimaginative and bureaucratic." Marjorie Scardino: business leaders will back EU in the end 2013-04-16T21:58:25Z Sadly, we are likely to be presented with an unimaginative and insignificant budget, which will do little to promote the economic growth the UK so badly needs. Budget 2013: five voices from left and right on how to fix Britain 2013-03-18T23:08:40Z Much of the existing music video space seems unimaginative, battling a perceived problem returning that investment that has led to reduced budgets and crude product placement. Interactive filmmaker Chris Milk on the new frontier of the web 2013-03-18T10:00:00Z The buyer will probably pick another vendor who will be an unimaginative bottom-feeding company desperate for work. Death by RFP: 7 Reasons Not To Respond 2013-03-07T13:37:35Z Apple is a symptom of that problem hoarding cash it is too scared or unimaginative to spend. Solving Apple's Innovation Problem 2013-02-08T10:55:05Z Nagel acknowledges that his attempt to envision a more expansive scientific paradigm is “far too unimaginative.” Is Scientific Materialism "Almost Certainly False"? 2013-01-30T14:15:00.203Z The Americans looked arrhythmic and unimaginative, like a team finding its footing after an extended winter layoff. United States 0, Canada 0: Listless U.S. Squad Plays Canada to Draw 2013-01-30T04:53:42Z While it speaks to his effectiveness, it was also shorthand for the boring, unimaginative offenses that often surrounded him in Atlanta. Off the Dribble: Nets' Joe Johnson Still Presents Problems, as Knicks Can Attest 2013-01-22T18:15:02Z For whatever reason, and often unfairly, Levein was never fully embraced by Scottish fans on account of his supposedly unimaginative approach. Gordon Strachan is the sensible choice to take over as Scotland manger 2013-01-15T09:30:50Z “It is maintained by profit-seeking school suppliers and unimaginative administrators who see no other possible arrangement of the body, or bodies, or any possible downside to the lower back from six hours of enforced sitting.” Some Schools Buy New Chairs, in a Break With the Past 2013-01-05T02:17:14Z Performances have been well below what we hoped for, the football has been dull and the home game against QPR reached new depths for unimaginative football. Premier League fans' half-term verdict part 1: Arsenal to Norwich City 2012-12-22T22:00:09Z Slowly and subtly, the private sector moved in to open facilities where many unimaginative care commissioners were only too happy to park people who proved difficult to settle in the community. The response to the Winterbourne View case promises to improve care 2012-11-27T14:07:59Z I didn’t care that it had a Spartan interior — variously described by female cohorts as “dated” and “boring” or “cheap” and “unimaginative.” 2013 Mitsubishi Outlander: No unisex appeal 2012-11-16T16:46:29Z During the 'fight' Marciano was bloodied, put down, and behind on points before coming back to win by knockout in the 13th round – an unimaginative regurgitation of his first championship bout with Jersey Joe Walcott. The forgotten story of … the Rocky Marciano v Muhammad Ali Super Fight 2012-11-13T12:11:00Z But it's also strategically unimaginative, which is why I was there. Division of Labor: What to Do When Owners & Employees Disagree 2012-11-12T18:06:47Z An unimaginative 19-13 game, with the winning club doing all of its scoring on special teams. The Fifth Down: Week 4 Quick Hits: Niners Show How to Run Option Play 2012-10-01T10:44:15Z The Seahawks suffer from three primary ailments: unimaginative play-calling, an offensive line that struggles with pass protection and a quarterback who simply hasn't been productive enough. Seahawks' offense just not getting the job done 2012-10-01T00:03:04Z The initial bid held up, with the anonymous buyer of this distinctive residence protected by a limited-liability company with a relatively unimaginative name, 763 Greenwich. | Sold for $17.5 Million 2012-09-28T19:35:55Z This quickly degrades into another chemical, dimethyl sulphide, which generations of those subjected to unimaginative school lunches will instantly recognise. Marine biology: Scents and sensibility 2012-09-27T15:09:28Z Technical problems abound, at least on the PS3 version – the game looks five years old yet chugs and stutters throughout, marring what is essentially a solid, if unimaginative, role-playing adventure. New Super Mario Bros 2 – review 2012-08-11T23:03:02Z So why is so much of today’s innovation unimaginative? Imagination: What You Need To Thrive In The Future Economy 2012-08-06T14:04:49Z Their passing was unimaginative and there was no real tempo. Team GB lose on penalties 2012-08-04T21:27:32Z There is nothing much new that has been learned about Anton Ferdinand, save his somewhat unimaginative choice of abuse. Racism kicked out of football? Not yet 2012-07-31T14:20:01Z The U.S. practice of releasing such a report, which is full of prejudice, arrogance and ignorance, is unimaginative and even counterproductive. IHT Rendezvous: China Assails U.S. 'Arrogance' in Report on Religious Freedom 2012-07-31T05:00:25Z The developers, Federal Insurance, based in Milwaukee, dismiss such criticism as misplaced and unimaginative. Housing Project Planned Near Shrinking Salton Sea 2012-07-29T23:53:21Z In their minds, they weren’t incompetent or unimaginative or lazy. Op-Ed Contributor: Japan’s Inept Guardians 2012-06-25T05:00:01Z In this telling, the modest, unimaginative Mubarak, thrust by an accident of history atop the throne of the Arab world’s most populous country, could not have been expected to resist power’s intoxicating effect. The Tyrant's Brutal Legacy 2012-06-25T05:00:00Z This unimaginative condition is the precise one from which suffered so many early and too many later critics of Liszt's original music. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z Though Williams is often criticized for his unimaginative work in orchestrating an offense, he makes for a dangerous weak-side counter. Off the Dribble: For Clippers, It's All About Paul 2012-05-11T21:04:10Z But the run game in the NFL is unimaginative except for the teams that run a little Wildcat. The Fifth Down: Mike Mayock on the Draft and the Jets 2012-05-04T10:45:43Z “I’m not at all unimaginative,” Lily interposed, quickly. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z And it is a careless and unimaginative race that perpetuates no legends. Reading the Weather 2012-04-19T02:00:27.487Z Now, though the selfishness of an unimaginative man is the most complete of all, it yet exposes him to fewer delusions than the same quality when found allied with a hopeful or fanciful temperament. Barrington Volume I (of II) 2012-04-09T02:00:31.357Z Civilization rested on the uninspired, unimaginative drudgery of nine tenths of mankind. Steel The Diary of a Furnace Worker 2012-02-21T03:00:18.360Z He was quite unimaginative, cautious in his affairs, a great reader of the newspaper; but he never seemed to me to have had the same sense of life as my mother and myself. Spiritual Adventures 2012-02-17T03:00:27.070Z Something tells me the Chatterbox regulars will be treating this annual homage to unimaginative romantics with the respect it deserves. Chatterbox: Tuesday 2012-02-14T07:00:01Z Besides, they were plain-thinking, sober, unimaginative men, who, unlike Mr. Ingersoll, always, under all circumstances, and especially in the presence of eternity, recognized the difference between mountains and clouds. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z Only an unimaginative and uncreative mind can occupy itself as Smoot's does. Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington 2012-02-11T03:03:55.693Z I could not think of a single charge that could be placed before a jury,—American juries generally consisted of the most stupid and unimaginative men. The Unpublishable Memoirs 2012-02-03T03:00:18.447Z They were, in her estimation, mere unlettered toilers—simple, unimaginative, brown-faced men who thought about nothing but the seasons and the price of wheat. A Prairie Courtship 2012-02-01T03:00:12.830Z In the New Yorker, David Denby called “War Horse” unimaginative but also wrote, “The horses themselves are magnificent, and maybe that’s reason enough to see the movie.” Finders Key: From Far Back in the Pack to the Lead in ?War Horse? 2012-01-24T16:11:13Z Supremely unimaginative, admirably free from tawdry affectations of Art, unquestionably permanent—and large. The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South 2012-01-24T03:00:26.933Z On the one hand, the whole idea seems both distasteful and, frankly, a bit unimaginative. Do 'Booth Babes? Really Work? 2012-01-13T14:41:06Z She would go and ask old Mr. Cartwright's opinion; and old Mr. Cartwright was one of those penny-wise, purblind, unimaginative old gentlemen who will never believe in anything until they've seen it. The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories 2012-01-10T03:00:17.100Z His game plans are predictable, his schemes are unimaginative, and he fails to use his full assortment of weapons. NFL wild-card weekend: Four quick takes from the first round 2012-01-09T21:11:51Z Their religion was formal, their art imported, their literature imitative, their aims were practical, their interests unimaginative. Atlantic Classics, Second Series 2011-12-09T03:00:20.203Z Everything about her was so ordered, so exactly right, that she had the rather formal unimaginative look to which the whole race of royalties is doomed by the walls of the Royal Academy of Arts. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z “It’s an extraordinarily unimaginative way to use money,” said Robert Reich, a former secretary of labor under President Clinton who now teaches public policy at the University of California, Berkeley. Rash to Some, Stock Buybacks Are on the Rise 2011-11-22T01:30:24Z Then I learned by personal observation why she was so dull, and limited, and unimaginative. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z Hardy children are always of inferior type—for the most part, plain and shrewd and unimaginative, insensitive, unlovable. Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z Tommy was so practical and unimaginative a young person that she could hardly have been altogether mistaken, and a "little brown face," if face it was, must belong to a native. The Girl Crusoes A Story of the South Seas 2011-11-03T02:00:16.647Z It is not a bad thing in this world to be born a little dull and unimaginative. Leaves in the Wind 2011-10-28T02:00:25.937Z The cable goes on to describe his multifaceted personality as “elusive, ambiguous, pragmatic, unimaginative, shrewd and outspoken.” Man in the News: Prince Nayef Bin Abdul Aziz: Potential New Saudi Crown Prince Is Hard-Line but Pragmatic 2011-10-24T03:13:20Z In the old days at the Academy, however, we had no system of lighting except glaring footlights and perhaps a single, unimaginative calcium. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z The crass and unimaginative frequently deride thus things too high for their dense understanding. Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z It never occurred to this unimaginative man to sign any name but his own to the register that was shoved toward him. Quick Action 2011-09-26T02:00:28.347Z The man had an object now, one which might have seemed trivial to the bloodless and unimaginative, but which to him became a serious matter. The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains 2011-09-24T02:00:16.927Z After all, the hard-headed, plodding, unimaginative city detectives knew their business best. The Secret Toll 2011-09-12T02:00:26.853Z “You speak in riddles,” said the doctor, “how can an unimaginative fellow like me solve the mystery of ‘I am being lived?’” An I.D.B. in South Africa 2011-08-31T02:01:33.733Z They seemed extraordinary unimaginative ornaments, somehow—not a sparkle or glimmer about them anywhere. Pink Gods and Blue Demons 2011-08-31T02:01:22.827Z What did these unimaginative barbarians know of the tender passion?—nothing, save when it touched their own sluggish souls and bodies. Jane Oglander 2011-08-30T02:00:38.717Z The first volume gave you the childhood and upbringing of Rupert—and incidentally revealed to my unimaginative mind what a hell life must be for an over-sensitive boy at an English public school. The Sixth Sense A Novel 2011-08-24T02:00:18.870Z Those splendid gentlemen, as we have agreed, were fine golfers who conducted their game nobly, but it has always seemed to me that they were an unimaginative lot. The Happy Golfer Being Some Experiences, Reflections, and a Few Deductions of a Wandering Golfer 2011-08-21T02:00:29.747Z It was in the same unimaginative prosaic way that he said long after, “Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us.” The Gospel According to St. Mark 2011-08-20T02:00:14.427Z He used to groan over the dull, unimaginative brains of the people of his neighborhood. Papers from Overlook-House 2011-08-07T02:00:08.643Z They were men of the sea, hard and unimaginative. The Men Who Wrought 2011-07-26T02:00:16.320Z But how would it have been with a cloddish unimaginative fellow, whom nature never intended should understand Shakspere? A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning 2011-07-22T02:00:18.543Z Endocrine-disruption research certainly addresses mechanisms but has an applied aspect, as a chimeric field that interweaves many disciplines and perhaps bemuses the unimaginative. What's Going On with Those Scandinavian Sperm? 2011-07-11T11:15:00.240Z Then I found myself looking into eyes, very different from unimaginative Bossy's. The Welsh Pony Described in two letters to a friend 2011-07-02T02:00:10.773Z His great unimaginative head had no care for the picture side of it. The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley 2011-06-27T02:00:56.823Z He spoke with the same sort of affection as the huntsman has for his favourite horse, but Kenneth was more practical and unimaginative. The Dispatch-Riders The Adventures of Two British Motor-cyclists in the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:22.377Z They’ve been inconsistent — demanding a settlements freeze then backing down — unimaginative and politically wimpy. Op-Ed Columnist: What to Do With Lemons 2011-06-19T02:08:11Z I often long with all my soul to be prehistoric in certain matters, but the prim hand of convention—otherwise the unimaginative policeman—holds me back. Lodges in the Wilderness 2011-06-15T02:00:17.057Z Mr. Dumphy, like all practical, unimaginative men, was among the first to recover his presence of mind with the passing of the immediate danger. Gabriel Conroy 2011-06-08T02:00:19.217Z Even this one, this well-bred, well-taught bright being, was so unimaginative that she actually saw no reason why a man's grown-up daughter.... The Pastor's Wife 2011-06-02T02:00:23.873Z That was the result of an adjustment by Julien, perceived to be conservative and unimaginative but in fact reflected his ability to adapt. Bruins Coach Hears Complaints but Sees Results 2011-06-01T19:09:23Z The turf is a random mix of grass and weeds, and right in front of the first tee, there’s a squarish, unimaginative bunker that serves no purpose. On Par: When a Bad Golf Course Edges Into Goodness 2011-05-23T01:07:46Z Alas! then, for prosaic fact; and oh! for unimaginative maps! The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II 2011-05-22T02:00:17.943Z A part of sports, somewhere near the soul, is slowly dying an unimaginative death. Great Sports Nicknames Like Magic Are Disappearing 2011-05-10T18:56:39Z The girl had yet to learn that the most narrow and commonplace minds are capable of wild exaggeration within their own sphere, and that to be unimaginative is no guarantee for truthfulness of perception. That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 2 2011-04-26T02:00:28.200Z Their cab driver, an unimaginative man of sturdy common sense, refused to take them back to their convent. Pope Pius the Tenth 2011-04-26T02:00:21.967Z And how dry and unimaginative a list it is! The River-Names of Europe 2011-04-20T02:00:18.983Z This essentially romantic and adventurous and mystical force seems to have a special hold on many timid, unromantic and unimaginative persons. Non-combatants and Others 2011-04-11T02:00:11.563Z The impression of many men marching slowly and solemnly must be realised by even the most unimaginative hearer, and it is a work that requires no programme. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z I will make the place a fairy spectacle, such as the unimaginative inhabitants of Gloster never dreamed of, and then we will prepare for our summer trip to Newport and Saratoga. Mississippi Outlaws and the Detectives Don Pedro and the Detectives; Poisoner and the Detectives 2011-03-28T02:00:28.167Z Too often are they found to be high feeders, copious drinkers, keenly, if not sordidly, acquisitive, unimaginative, and coarse in their ideas and tastes. France 2011-03-27T02:00:11.847Z These nights possess a poetical charm that almost defies description, a charm that touches the most unimaginative with a vague sense of the nearness of an intangible other-world. Unlucky A Fragment of a Girl's Life 2011-03-24T02:00:14.360Z For in what does the short-winded poet himself excel the common unimaginative person who talks or who stares? Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z The poor, unimaginative, bourgeois English producer could never rise to such Latin heights. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z "If you knew where there was silver, why did you steal bells, which are of brass and of no particular value?" asked his unimaginative guard. Sanders of the River 2011-03-12T03:00:26.427Z Yet the city’s bureaucracy is unimaginative and suffers from a unique kind of moral hazard. HK's Leaders Channel George W. Bush 2011-03-09T21:03:06Z In short, the Franklin legend fails to transcend an allegory of the success of the doer in an America allegedly materialistic, uncreative, and unimaginative. Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z They were an able but unimaginative people, preferring law and profit to either science or art. A Short History of the World 2011-03-04T03:01:03.147Z A persistent unimaginative besetting of Marjorie, a growing air of ownership, an expansive, indulgent, smiling disposition to thwart and control. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z If it wasn’t for these quadrennial political campaigns to spur the fancy on to glorious flights we should become a dull, hard, prosaic, unimaginative people, and that would be death to progress. The Genial Idiot His Views and Reviews 2011-02-18T03:00:20.773Z The charm of the hour seems to affect even the unimaginative Africans, as they sit in the central spaces of their villages, or, stretched under the forest trees, gaze upon the glories around. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z And "Believe in America" is an unimaginative bit of sloganeering, though Obama's "Win the Future" is certainly no better. At CPAC, Romney Makes the Case Against Obama 2011-02-11T20:46:41Z They knew exactly what he was going to do, they had thought it all out, planned it, spoken of it till even their unimaginative minds had visualised this coming scene with absolutely realistic perception. Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel 2011-01-31T03:00:13.650Z Mr. Gordon Craig seems to think that Shakespearian representation at the present moment is unsatisfactory, because of our miserable theatres, with their low proscenium and unimaginative scenery, which cannot suggest immensity! Shakespeare in the Theatre 2011-01-30T03:00:17.973Z He was entirely unimaginative, practical, commonplace—and very successful. The Carleton Case 2011-01-24T03:00:17.240Z They are a refuge for lazy and unimaginative journalists. If I ran a news organization ... 2011-01-18T17:01:00Z Speaking of the spiritual suggestions in material things, I remember saying that I thought there must first be some actual resemblance, which unimaginative people must see before the poet could successfully use them. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Last month he scolded Wearsiders for failing to fill the Stadium of Light, thereby inviting retorts about unimaginative concourse catering, an overcrowded shop and acres of bare breezeblock walls badly in need of decoration. Clubs should serve the fans, not pander to fantasies of democracy 2011-01-13T00:06:01Z Descending from ideas to facts, he finally succeeded, after a long series of subsequent labors, in reading "the riddle which had baffled his able but unimaginative predecessors." Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind 2011-01-12T03:00:29.853Z Managers are, with rare exceptions, an unimaginative lot. My Actor-Husband A true story of American stage life 2011-01-03T03:01:07.697Z "Therat" will give one the inspirations of a poet; after taking it, the most unimaginative person will become a romancer, and composer of verses. Told by the Death's Head A Romantic Tale 2010-12-30T03:00:21.423Z The dull and unimaginative methods of bureaucracy stifle even when they are inspired by benevolence. A Short History of English Liberalism 2010-12-22T15:03:38.007Z But the rest of the newspaper is bizarrely spartan and unimaginative, especially compared to the elaborate magazine mode. State of the Art: The Future, Touchable and in Color 2010-12-08T22:30:00Z As a shopping experience they have nothing to recommend them, just a soulless space with unimaginative displays. City Critic: A Night for Pagans Brings Out the Sexy 2010-10-16T23:27:00Z So that many women are dull and unimaginative when it comes to writing a profile? The Web Hostess: Google Instant, Craigslist adult ads and more 2010-09-08T18:00:00Z Pizza Hut, Bella Pasta and Spaghetti House are practical but decidedly unimaginative. Shopping and FCUKing 2010-08-29T20:00:00Z No constitutional machinery can be better than the men who work it, and Englishmen after the Union showed themselves no less unimaginative and egoistic than their predecessors. A Short History of English Liberalism 2010-12-22T15:03:38.007Z If you're unimaginative, Google "really sick, disturbing and horrific things you can buy online nowadays". Retail therapy gone mad 2010-07-22T12:30:00Z Though the name 'Ceop' is being promoted in schools, it's a terribly dull acronym and an unimaginative brand with little resonance that will miss the opportunity to engage a far larger audience. Let's not call it a 'panic button' 2010-07-12T12:18:00Z Meanwhile, the union movement, for all of its value, remains bureaucratic and unimaginative, and has consistently failed to address the aspirations and desires of American workers. How does Joe Barton's GOP ever win? 2010-06-18T13:19:00Z The game had meandered through almost an entire half of error-littered, unimaginative play before exploding into life in the 39th minute. Feeble Italy escape with Paraguay draw 2010-06-14T21:37:00Z Not the least significant fact in this record of dull and unimaginative mismanagement is the connection between Castlereagh and Continental statesmen of the type of Metternich. A Short History of English Liberalism 2010-12-22T15:03:38.007Z The franchises' manufactured local identities with their staggeringly unimaginative names were never a substitute for the "brand names" developed by English football clubs through generations of lived and shared experience. IPL scandal exposes dark side of neoliberal dream 2010-05-09T12:00:00Z Unsurprisingly, the prospects of goals were impaired by a lack of quality.The battle for survival does not allow much room for artistry, with largely unimaginative physical endeavour the commonest strength among the protagonists. Kilmarnock 0-0 Falkirk 2010-05-08T15:13:00Z The unimaginative jab and straight right combination was as effective as usual for Klitschko but Chambers enjoyed occasional success, a left hook-right hand landing in the fourth but representing his only success. Klitschko knocks out challenger Chambers 2010-03-21T00:24:00Z While some might also argue that there is no business value to social media, I believe that this is a very short-sighted and unimaginative belief. CIOs: Stop Ignoring Social Media 2010-03-03T11:00:00Z It was only another example of unimaginative dullness legislating without responsibility. A Short History of English Liberalism 2010-12-22T15:03:38.007Z Perhaps the biggest disappointment was in the quality and in the stingy, unimaginative selection of dim sum. 2010-02-13T00:12:00Z It's a completely lazy, unimaginative way to get people to buy magazines and build traffic on Web sites. 2009-12-24T19:33:00Z Dull, unimaginative Zsen would have been betrayed into an attempt at brilliance and dash, with a couple of bottles of "old crusted" under his belt. The Exploits and Triumphs, in Europe, of Paul Morphy, the Chess Champion These intimations of the future are, for the most part, altogether of an unpoetical and unimaginative character. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil It is not the purpose of the writer to describe in detail a course of events which has been so interesting to the student of reforming fanaticism, unimaginative administration, and political chicanery. A Short History of English Liberalism 2010-12-22T15:03:38.007Z Gibraltar and Aden cannot mean to the unimaginative what they mean to the men of vision, to the men stirred by the hero tales of the past, by the dim records of half-forgotten peoples. A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open He must be a very unimaginative person who cannot feel the charm of their revelation. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius The said visage being indeed a blank, this fancy seemed to tickle even the unimaginative Mr. Buffkin. A Poached Peerage That Jerusha Darby was rich, intolerant, determined, unimaginative, self-centered, unforgiving, and unhappy the student of character might gather at a glance. The Reclaimers His more normal, stolid, unimaginative self climbed back into its place again—yet with a touch of awkwardness and difficulty. The Wave An Egyptian Aftermath There's no hosiery department on the train," said Tony: "railway companies are very unimaginative. The Gay Adventure A Romance He accepted their unimaginative standards, their coarseness, their brutality as virtues, and in them he saw the consummation of all that England should cherish. Sinister Street, vol. 1 He might as well have glared at the spattered portrait of Everard, ninth Baron Quorn, on the wall for any effect his eyes produced on the uncompromising and unimaginative official. A Poached Peerage Fashioned by its original and unimaginative builders only as a shelter, with no thought of appearances, it remained, with its dark logs and white “chinking,” a thing of picturesque beauty. The Key to Yesterday If for the hireling shot from the laurel they had no other response than retaliation in kind, they were only rising to the bait of a lawless and unimaginative enemy. The Tempering Dull, unimaginative Western minds said: 'These are literally true, and unless you believe them so you are lost.' Victory out of Ruin Now in the vulgarity of its crimson brick, in the servility with which it truckled to bourgeois ideals, in the unimaginative utility it worshipped, Michael vaguely apprehended the loss of a soul. Sinister Street, vol. 1 He had never come in contact with its worship or its professors; and to his unimaginative, unimpassioned, and profoundly intellectual temperament, no ideal type could be more uncongenial than that of the saint. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 "How could anyone dream that you were hard, and austere and—and unimaginative!" Nancy of Paradise Cottage Writer goes on to say of Artists that "Respectability is arrayed in arms against them, because their ways are not as those of its smug and unimaginative votaries." Punch, or the London Charivari. Volume 93. August 27, 1887 The tyranny of systematic, scientific, capable, unpicturesque, unimaginative France, evidently rules over the realm of man's dress. To Cuba and Back There is every indication that the practical, unimaginative Latin plowmen and spearsmen received the very alphabet of every art from vanquished Hellas. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII There was no one, not even the humblest follower, so unimaginative that he did not look up from time to time at the frowning cliff and thousand sightless windows that concealed the unknown. The Unveiling of Lhasa Tell me what you meant when you accused me just now of being hard and austere and unimaginative. Nancy of Paradise Cottage There was a sort of dumb tolerance in the Superintendent's unimaginative countenance. The Riddle of the Spinning Wheel There is a na�vete, a gentle absurdity, about this simple fancy that we cannot help attributing to Mr. Edgeworth's unimaginative mind. Maria Edgeworth On the other hand, is not Mr Galsworthy rather unimaginative in failing to see that Tariff Reform might conceivably lead in present circumstances to intense pain and distress in every town and county in England? The Book of This and That Her ambition to dance was in childhood a force which was killed by unimaginative treatment. Carnival I mean that you are unimaginative because you allow yourself to be rigid——" "Rigid? Nancy of Paradise Cottage As things are, he won’t suffer any more than I. He is just a dear, simple, unimaginative Englishman, who needs to have things pushed very conspicuously before his eyes before he can see them. A Question of Marriage Their intelligent, shrewd, generally unimaginative heads, under their cylindrical black caps, offer endless studies to the physiognomists and the caricaturists. Paris From the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 2 Clearly no line can be drawn on principles of this kind between imaginative and unimaginative literature. The Book of This and That He walked down the deserted street pondering the mystery, and like other unimaginative men, failed to find an explanation. Lady Cassandra You need not suspect her: she is as honest as a cow, and as unimaginative. Anne But what in these dull, unimaginative days are the terrors of conscience to the diseases of the Liver? Thomas Carlyle Famous Scots Series She was a stout, bustling, unimaginative, prosaic person, without an atom of romance or sentiment in her composition. A Fourth Form Friendship A School Story He's as unimaginative as a side of sole-leather, and as efficient as he is unimaginative. Pledged to the Dead She was motherhood, indeed; a young madonna whose halo was visible even to unimaginative Ted. The Torch Bearer It is pleasing to find the language of poetry thus obtaining, in a profession of which the phraseology has hitherto been so very unimaginative. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) It would be pretty unimaginative of mankind to consider itself the only sentient form of life, Earth the only home of intelligence, both from a scientific and a religious point of view. Voyage To Eternity When all his ideas and loyalties are those of a wolf pack of unimaginative sluggers two thousand years younger than I am? The Big Time The Cura was startled, but he assented with passionate zeal; of his stuff, unenterprising, unimaginative, with room for one idea only, martyrs are made. The Woodlands Orchids For an instant Ted stood motionless, struck to the earth by that simple horror of the unusual, the abnormal, which the very sane and unimaginative always feel. The Torch Bearer Oh, that’s no good as a nom de guerre—too palpably a name chosen by an unimaginative man. Lord Stranleigh Abroad Something in me shrank from the thought of hundreds of unimaginative tourists speeding over the ground where men have so recently died by the thousands. A "Y Girl in France Letters of Katherine Shortall The splendid, unimaginative geometric precision of the Capitol stretched out before him in the dazzling summer sunlight, the view serving as a leaven for Ellaby's usually phlegmatic disposition. The Dictator The longer the war went on the less important seemed abstractions like loyalty or patriotism, and the more shiningly important the need for unimaginative and quick-witted efficiency. Command |
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