unsensational


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unsensational

(ˌʌnsɛnˈseɪʃənəl)
adj
not sensational
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Adj.1.unsensational - not of such character as to arouse intense interest, curiosity, or emotional reactionunsensational - not of such character as to arouse intense interest, curiosity, or emotional reaction
sensational - causing intense interest, curiosity, or emotion
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unsensational

adjwenig aufregend or sensationell
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As much as he [Bergson] enjoys the sight of things "penetrating" and "merging," do we enjoy the opposite picture of them standing apart--the wind blowing between them, and the air circulating freely in and out of them: as much as he enjoys the "indistinct," the "qualitative," the misty, sensational and ecstatic, very much more do we value the distinct, the geometric, the universal, non-qualitied--the clear and the light, the unsensational. (443) Like Hulme, Lewis criticized "'religious' consciousness" that "attacks the distinctiveness of that other, supreme Object, God, and soon fuses it with the rest--the tables, the chairs, the garden-hose, the bath-salts, looking-glass and chimney-pots" (405).