unrhetorical

I'm not sure about bombastic; one of the many virtues of this exciting production is that it gives us an intimate, stripped‑down and mercifully unrhetorical version of Schiller's great 1800 romantic tragedy.

Mary Stuart – review 2012

In 1985, Elizabeth Rawson, fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, speculated that it would probably have been in the Hellenistic tradition of biography—a literary form written in an unpretentious, unrhetorical style; it might quote documents, but it liked apophthegms by its subject, and it could be gossipy and irresponsible . . .

CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010

And, in that respect, this somewhat unrhetorical inaugural address may be appropriate, because this is -- what is going on now is too big for rhetoric.

CNN Transcript Jan 20, 2009 2009

Dole, this unrhetorical, almost anti-rhetorical man, is seeking an office whose constitutional powers are weak but whose rhetorical potential is great.

Good Man . . . Wrong Job? 2008

During some years I hoped that she DID live; and I suppose that, in the literal and unrhetorical use of the word

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater 2003

Never use such unrhetorical and laugh-provoking lines as the grotesquely familiar "and then to him I did say."

Writing for Vaudeville Brett Page

Pablo said to him seriously and Robert Jordan saw how unrhetorical was the question.

For Whom The Bell Tolls Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 1940

Pablo said to him seriously and Robert Jordan saw how unrhetorical was the question.

For Whom The Bell Tolls Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 1940

His style, simple and unrhetorical, is the more noteworthy for having attained its simplicity in the golden age of

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

Though a "dull and tedious preacher", most confused and unrhetorical, the weight of his learning was felt.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913