How to Use uninflected in a Sentence
uninflected
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Even more noticeable is his uninflected direction and visual style.
—Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Jan. 2018
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Each monitor tells its own, slow-moving story in one long take from a single, uninflected point of view, the images behaving more like hybrids of photograph and movie than either one alone.
—Charles Desmarais, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 May 2018
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In its quiet, uninflected way, Battleground delivers valuable insights, leaving it to viewers to assess and take some action or not.
—Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 June 2022
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Hawke brings a certain spooky nonchalance to the role, conveying the mundanity of evil through the uninflected naturalism of his delivery.
—A.a. Dowd, Rolling Stone, 23 June 2022
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The first half of Adania Shibli’s novel Minor Detail tells the story of this crime in spare, uninflected prose.
—Robyn Creswell, The New York Review of Books, 22 Oct. 2020
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The movie is crisp and starched in its performances, pin-neat in its dramaturgy, chipper and functional in its writing, film-school patterned in its editing, and—most surprisingly—plain and uninflected in its cinematography.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2022
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This line, delivered in his usual uninflected, unemphatic tone, is chilling, something that the villain in a Hitchcock thriller, one of those immaculately amoral gentleman-monsters, might have said.
—Lili Anolik, Vanities, 14 Dec. 2017
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One is relational, dispersed, anecdotal, and temporal, while the other is factual, immediate, non-hierarchical, and uninflected.
—David Salle, The New York Review of Books, 13 Dec. 2020
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