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Its unelevated, unlabored language makes clear the sense in which the characters are just like us.

Putting Antigone's World in Context 2008

This intense interest, though generally deplored by the better sorts among us, may be prurient, unelevated and unbecoming, but it is also eminently understandable.

Real-Life Mini-Series 2008

After reentry, the aft wing is returned to an unelevated position which enables gliding flight to a horizontal-runway landing.

NASA Watch: Keith Cowing: April 2007 Archives 2007

Interestingly, the 'th' is unelevated in the header, but elevated in the body.

60 Minutes Documents forged? UndercoverPunk 2004

He had, besides, a turn of expression which was very far from being low and unelevated; and possessed two other accomplishments, in which no one could equal him, -- an uncommon clearness and accuracy in stating the points he was to speak to; and a neat and easy manner of collecting the substance of what had been said by his antagonist, and by himself.

Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker. Marcus Tullius Cicero

Now I had come to see and pay my compliments to a poet, and there did appear to me to be something strangely awkward and irresistibly ludicrous in having to address, to some extent, in a literary and complimentary vein, an individual actually engaged in so excessively prosaic and unelevated a species of performance.

Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1891

It is altogether rather a pretentious affair, wherein one sees the evidence of substantial wealth unelevated by artistic grace or poetic grandeur.

Birds of Prey 1875

We have here, and in no mere fragments, the spectacle of a universal application to the instruments of daily life of fitness and beauty, in a temper still unsophisticated, as also unelevated, by the divination of the spirit of man.

Greek Studies: a Series of Essays Walter Pater 1866

Now I had come to see and pay my compliments to a poet, and there did appear to me to be something strangely awkward and irresistibly ludicrous in having to address, to some extent, in a literary and complimentary vein, an individual actually engaged in so excessively prosaic and unelevated a species of performance.

Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist Samuel Smiles 1858

I utterly disbelieve in Von Buch and de Beaumont's views; but on the other hand, in the case of the Mauritius and St. Jago, I cannot, perhaps unphilosophically, persuade myself that they are merely the basal fragments of ordinary volcanoes; and therefore I thought I would suggest the notion of a slow circumferential elevation, the central part being left unelevated, owing to the force from below being spent and [relieved?] in eruptions.

More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845