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  • And there's little sense in the production that Hoffmann is much miffed by the disastrous endings of all three of his love plots, perhaps because Joseph Calleja, though a fine singer, is an entirely unevocative actor.

    The Real Offenbach 2009

  • Seriously, how could those who gave us Phillip Roth and Michael Chabon also give us a phrase as unliterary, and unevocative as "Juicebox Mafia?"

    Eli Lake’s Snark Style Lies Destroyed And Broken | ATTACKERMAN 2009

  • And there's little sense in the production that Hoffmann is much miffed by the disastrous endings of all three of his love plots, perhaps because Joseph Calleja, though a fine singer, is an entirely unevocative actor.

    The Real Offenbach 2009

  • Some of the sets and locations were beautiful and exactly as they should have been; others were curiously devoid of life and wholly unevocative.

    Alex Remington: Who Should Win the Oscars -- The Teaser Categories 2008

  • However, the style throughout was flat and unevocative and often sounded quite contemporary.

    Archive 2006-04-16 Miss Snark 2006

  • Someone had received a rejection letter for their historical romance that said, "the style throughout was flat and unevocative and often sounded quite contemporary".

    Sense of smell in historical fiction Carla 2006

  • Someone had received a rejection letter for their historical romance that said, "the style throughout was flat and unevocative and often sounded quite contemporary".

    Archive 2006-04-01 Carla 2006

  • At its worst, though, underground rap entailed a stubborn digging in of heels: Listen to a celebrated period artifact like 1999 Rawkus anthology victory lap on his way to the pop stratosphere, but also verse after verse of stultifyingly "virtuosic" rhymes: unevocative abstractions packed tightly together and set to de rigueur whirls of scratching and samey boom-bap drums.

    Slate Magazine Jonah Weiner 2011

  • The solar eclipse blinding was the most unevocative and convoluted piece of rhetoric and I fail to understand its acclaim.

    Writing English 2009

  • David Farley 's stodgy, unevocative unit set suggests that these elite types all shop at Crate & Barrel.

    Village Voice - The most recent 10 stories 2009

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