单词 | uninventive |
例句 | The production, by the director David McVicar, is uninventive and safe. The Metropolitan Opera Performs Donizetti?s ?Anna Bolena? 2011-09-27T12:51:23Z Crude, uninventive, it was the sort of thing that gets bad taste a bad name, and proved even more popular at the box office. The Hangover Part III – review 2013-05-25T23:04:00Z A creator who made all of these but was so highly uninventive about body plans is puzzling. Questions about Noah's Ark that may bug creationists 2011-01-18T14:15:10Z On initial encounter, they seem to be boxy, uninventive riffs on old-style Minimalist abstraction. New Museum Triennial Looks Great, but Plays It Safe 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z Next to Durham and Cincinnati, L.A. might have seemed uncharacteristically uninventive. The next new Finnish star conductor takes the stand in Disney Hall 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z Figurative artists, like Charles White, a socialist-realist, were often considered by museums to be formally uninventive. Rediscovery 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z But where “Inventing Anna” insists on fidelity to real life, it’s annoying, such as in Garner’s uninventive portrayal of Anna. ‘Girlboss’ scammer shows are everywhere. Which ones should you watch? 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z It’s another to be mired in its often uninventive delivery and fall victim to its patterned complacency. Review: Allman Betts Band feels staid on ‘Down to the River’ 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z The team continued to lean on short, uninventive sideline throws with few positive outcomes. Seattle Seahawks vs. Los Angeles Rams: National media drops Hawks in most NFL power rankings despite opening win 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Not only is this a close repetition of other corporate attempts to dodge regulation, it's actually so uninventive that VW was caught and fined in 1973 for dodging similar tests. VW and the never-ending cycle of corporate scandals - BBC News 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z For someone considered to be constantly at the vanguard of inventive popular music, Thom Yorke’s music often sounds, to these ears, to be somewhat … uninventive? Thom Yorke - Tomorrow's Modern Boxes: our first thoughts 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z Indeed if Alexis de Tocqueville is to be believed, early America was surprisingly uninventive. Globalism and Technology: A Hidden Misconception That Dooms the U.S. Economy 2013-03-31T08:47:56Z The real interest of these things ought not to be denied either by the misstatement that the materials adapted are mere common property, nor by the calumny that Handel was uninventive. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" 2012-01-02T03:00:22.443Z If these be withdrawn, they become gradually sluggish, uninventive, inexact, and lacking in the necessary enterprise and ardor. The Dangerous Classes of New York And Twenty Years' Work Among Them Amazingly uninventive, for, though possessed of them, the arts have made no progress among the Chinese these many centuries: even what they were taught by the Jesuits is almost lost. The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem If he thought, he would instantly go wrong; it is only the clumsy and uninventive artist who thinks. Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) Our lovers are children of nature, natural and uninventive. The Kempton-Wace Letters The number of things to do is without limit and the boy so uninventive as to be at a loss with all outdoors before him must be in a sad way. What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes Under these impressions we shrank from criticising a lady’s novel: her English might be faulty, but we said to ourselves her motives are irreproachable; her imagination may be uninventive, but her patience is untiring. The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete The Bambute are very musical, though they are uninventive as regards instruments. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" The arch, carelessly struck out by the Etruscan, forced by mechanical expediencies on the unwilling, uninventive Roman, remained unfelt by either. On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature But on ordinary occasions, profusion,—tasteless, haughty, and uninventive profusion,—the gorgeousness of brute power, the pomp of satiated luxury—these constituted the only claim to the popular admiration. Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, (Vol. 2 of 3) But in Sibelius there appear to exist two distinct personalities, the one strong and independent, the other timid and uninventive, who dominate him alternately. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Reasoning upon these data by the light of classic texts, may afterwards enable us to assign him his true place in the Pantheon of decadent and uninventive Paganism. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series How happened it that the American manufacturer did not pursue the same uninventive course? Scientific American, Volume 40, No. 13, March 29, 1879 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures He is uninventive, and has always, from creation down, lived amid these plants without the genius to discover, or the skill and industry to develope their uses. The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest As he is not a man of genius, or even a man of remarkable ability, as he is ignorant, uninventive and idle, you will see him flounder and fall from one failure to another. Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834 to 1859, Volume 2 Compared with these performances some of the current prodigies of gormandism which the papers so often report are surely as trifling in amount as they are tame and uninventive in the character of their details. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 You and I are as common, unprogressive, uninventive, indifferent mediocrities as we—the common people—always were. Quit Your Worrying! What distressed him, what utterly desolated him, was the grossness, the poorness, the cheapness, the dullness, and the uninventive monotony of the interminable entertainment. The Roll-Call It is dilatory because it has no sense of coming things, it is uninventive and wasteful, it does not create, it takes advantage. What is Coming? He had no intention to return, and had allowed himself to be arrested by a slow and uninventive young man, solely because it seemed the best way of achieving his purpose. In the Valley She is uninventive, if you will, this Nature, but she is tireless. The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages The Chinese are skilful manipulators, but they are singularly uninventive. Letters and Journals of James, Eighth Earl of Elgin Generally unprogressive and uninventive, the aboriginals of the coast of North Queensland apply practically the result of the observation of a certain fact in the life-history of a fish in obtaining food. Confessions of a Beachcomber Lem Perry, the leader of the claque, had a somewhat set speech, being uninventive in the construction of new phrases. Roads of Destiny It is thine own fault, thou sullen, uninventive companion," answered Varney, "who knowest no mode of control save downright brute force. Kenilworth Or, say Phyllis comes to-morrow: will an uninventive sun dare to rise in the old, hackneyed fashion on such a day of days? The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages |
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