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Uninteresting

adjective

Arousing no interest or attention or curiosity or excitement.

Characteristic or suggestive of an institution especially in being uniform or dull or unimaginative.

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"Uninteresting" Quotes from Famous Books

... themselves a place side by side with the favourite songs of native growth. Instances of this will occur to every one familiar with our hymnology; but this can hardly happen in many cases. The translations on the principle of this volume may neither be uninteresting nor unedifying on that account, and it may be permitted to the Translator to trust that Paul Gerhardt in his present dress may be found stimulating and refreshing to many. Gerhardt was peculiarly a son of consolation. The Translator has found him so ...

— Paul Gerhardt's Spiritual Songs - Translated by John Kelly • Paul Gerhardt

... Nor was it uninteresting to the world that an experiment should be fairly and fully made, whether freedom of discussion, unaided by power, is not sufficient for the propagation and protection of truth—whether a government conducting itself in the true spirit of its ...

— United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches - From Washington to George W. Bush • Various

... was an uninteresting place also, for the most part peopled by hangers-on of the Court. So we were not sorry when we crossed the river by a high-pitched bridge, where in days to come I was destined to behold one of the strangest sights ever seen by mortal man, and ...

— Ayesha - The Further History of She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed • H. Rider Haggard

... of such personal conflicts amongst more refined nations always formed a principal ingredient in poetry and romance, from the times of Homer to those of Spenser. They are, indeed, always uninteresting and tiresome, although related with the highest descriptive power; and even in the splendid descriptions of Ariosto and Tasso there is something absolutely ludicrous in the minute representations of ...

— John Rutherford, the White Chief • George Lillie Craik

... imply larger and more complicated issues than are implied in the words beautiful and ugly. The real and the unreal, the interesting and the uninteresting, the significant and the insignificant, the suggestive and the meaningless, the arresting and the commonplace, the exciting and the dull, the organic and the affected, the dramatic and the undramatic, are only some of ...

— The Complex Vision • John Cowper Powys

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