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Uninspired   /ˌənɪnspˈaɪərd/   Listen
Uninspired

adjective
1.
Having no intellectual or emotional or spiritual excitement.
2.
Deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention.  Synonyms: sterile, unimaginative, uninventive.  "Unimaginative development of a musical theme" , "Uninspired writing"






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"Uninspired" Quotes from Famous Books



... of Manu has been classified as, 1st, sacred knowledge and religion; 2d, philosophy; 3d, social rules and caste organization; 4th, criminal and civil laws; 5th, systems of penance; 6th, eschatology, or the doctrine of future rewards. No uninspired or non-Vedic production has equal authority in India. We can only judge of its date by its relative place among other books. It applies Vedic names to the gods, though it mentions Brahma and Vishnu, but it makes no reference to the Trimurti. Pantheism was evidently ...
— Oriental Religions and Christianity • Frank F. Ellinwood

... at Moses' song on Red Sea shore— When Pharaoh and his mighty host were drowned— In which the Tribes most gratefully adore Their great Deliverer, who on Egypt frowned. No mortal uninspired could e'er have found Such fitting language for that great event, Those strains sublime, with glorious grandeur crowned, Came forth from heaven, and back were thither sent As worship to the Lord, from ...
— The Emigrant Mechanic and Other Tales In Verse - Together With Numerous Songs Upon Canadian Subjects • Thomas Cowherd

... enable her to distinguish between the inspired and the uninspired parts of the Bible; for this ability she ...
— Mr. World and Miss Church-Member • W. S. Harris

... more than primary requirements in a factory or store. Without them labor of the better, more energetic types cannot be secured in the first place or held for any length of time. And the employer who expects, in return for these, any more than the average of uninspired service ...
— Increasing Efficiency In Business • Walter Dill Scott

... centuries been trying to tell whom this Substitute was like, and every comparison, inspired and uninspired, evangelistic, prophetic, apostolic, and human, falls short, for Christ was the Great Unlike. Adam a type of Christ, because he came directly from God; Noah a type of Christ, because he delivered his own family from deluge; Melchisedec a type of Christ, because ...
— New Tabernacle Sermons • Thomas De Witt Talmage


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