How To Use Uncharacteristically In A Sentence

  • In a delivery style that was uncharacteristically fluent, he lambasted the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), describing them as "atavistic" and operating as if they are in the "dark ages". TrinidadExpress Today's News
  • She even was dressed a little like a schoolgirl that evening, he observed, white button-down shirt, uncharacteristically flippy miniskirt, and a backpack slung across her narrow shoulders.
  • Fulmars, uncharacteristically quiet today, sit on their ledges among more splashes of bright pink, cascades of yellow bird's-foot trefoil and the last of the blue spring squill. Country diary: Shetland
  • Owen has been uncharacteristically silent.
  • The film also looks terrific, and uncharacteristically noirish for a Hitchcock film.
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  • It was a dramatic change in tone, a contrite president uncharacteristically admitting a major failure.
  • The completely unmoving, unconvincing romance between a wooden Hayden Christensen and an uncharacteristically bland Natalie Portman is only the most obvious clumsiness.
  • At 5:12 a.m. on Wednesday, April 18, 1906, on a clear, uncharacteristically fogless dawn, the San Andreas Fault just offshore from San Francisco snapped like an overloaded tree limb. Colossus
  • He tapped the side of his nose in an uncharacteristically arch gesture.
  • Uncharacteristically, perhaps because the bellyache and the fever distracted him, he sat in the open rather than behind tree cover.
  • Ian Storey as Erik looks unromantic, but acquits himself well in this uncharacteristically Italianate role.
  • The text of the book is preceded by a note in which Harris presents an uncharacteristically direct statement about his ideas and how they are to be understood in his work.
  • Beet soup with duck is a hearty take on borscht, and while a brilliantly vermilion gazpacho could have been our favorite soup, it was, uncharacteristically, too salty.
  • Which means I'm on a mission: elbowing my way past strangers, zig-zagging between cars, even occasionally breaking into a uncharacteristically moderately paced stroll.
  • Her future takes a dramatic turn when she follows an uncharacteristically rash instinct and travels to the slums of Bombay.
  • The government of the Cayman Islands ­ uncharacteristically ­ took the designation phlegmatically and said that the The most recent articles from Accountancy Age
  • Best of the set though is the uncharacteristically breezily lilting third number.
  • 'I fear that is precisely the chain of events which has occurred," Holden said, his voice uncharacteristically hard. ANTI-ICE
  • The fifth-set end-game started with Djokovic serving at 3-4 and stringing together an uncharacteristically bad game, getting broken at love on two mishit forehands, a framer of Federer's that set up a winner and a double fault on a second serve that missed the line by about a foot. Novak Djokovic Eliminates Roger Federer In U.S. Open Semifinals
  • Williams uncharacteristically lets the advantage slip, much to the delight of the crowd.
  • Fulmars, uncharacteristically quiet today, sit on their ledges among more splashes of bright pink, cascades of yellow bird's-foot trefoil and the last of the blue spring squill. Country diary: Shetland
  • Jeffries had no idea what was wrong with her daughter as she uncharacteristically stumbled and fell and began to slur her words.
  • She was uncharacteristically subdued, and she walked with slumped shoulders and eyes on the ground.
  • It is not known why the understory of the Hermit forest had such uncharacteristically low total stem density and total basal area.
  • But her long harsh sentence is cockeyed, as is Peter Beattie's very disappointing and uncharacteristically maladroit response.
  • The score by John Williams is uncharacteristically jazzy.
  • He was uncharacteristically astray with a third conversion attempt, but he showed the misses didn't rattle him by nailing a 30-metre penalty two minutes later to put the Bulls in front.
  • With this uncharacteristically clumsy device the author seems to be trying to relate his novel to public events, and trying too hard.
  • Collina's famously piercing gaze uncharacteristically drops away, almost bashful at being reminded of the compliment.
  • The frisky wind and sprinting clouds had woken up the homeless early, making them uncharacteristically active. LOST CHILDREN
  • On top of this mess are those patented gorgeous two-part harmonies, uncharacteristically straining to make themselves heard over the racket.
  • Uncharacteristically, he summoned his imagination instead, painting an ecstatic vision of the village under a fulgent canopy of stars and a crescent moon. Van Gogh's Transcendent Vision
  • He was uncharacteristically depressed and ruminative.
  • Some - but not all - of the 1946 drawings are uncharacteristically laconic and slightly benumbed.
  • It may already be too late to take the more open-handed British approach, and for reasons of self-preservation they may need to adopt an uncharacteristically guarded stance.
  • Most of these newer buildings were made of wood, and many showed signs of uncharacteristically hasty construc - tion and shoddy workmanship. Flint, the King
  • He was smiling at me, looking uncharacteristically sheepish, and well, quite beautiful.
  • He was eventually much happier at the Architectural Association where, uncharacteristically for the time, Frank Lloyd Wright was his preferred modern architect.
  • You might think this a bit uncharacteristically 'soppy' but several Rotarians had been acting as stewards and thought that I'd been pushing an empty pram around as a stunt. Archive 2007-12-01
  • The children had been uncharacteristically quiet.
  • Lubitsch also had a knack of getting uncharacteristically good performances out of his actors.
  • Oblivious to his hectic surroundings, the man carried on with his lonely saunter until he reached an uncharacteristically quiet corner of the courtyard void of any activity.
  • The Prime Minister merely looked ahead, eyes and jaw grimly fixed, and uncharacteristically ignored his inquisitor.
  • Catch ya later. andrea Says: mmt, fed was uncharacteristically cocky (but in a good way) in his semi final presser. if you compare the AO semi final presser to the FO where he met soderling or even wimby when he met roddick, he wasn't going on about how 'those guys don't have much of a chance cos they're playing me' and that kind of attitude. during the other GS's he said the usual stuff 'gonna be a tough match' 'give them credit' 'don't underestimate'. he was definitely more fired up and letting some zingers fly this time around compared to the usual stuff. of course, the term cocky can be seen as a negative and in the end, it wasn't negative at all and he lived up to all his comments. he's just usually not that fired up vocally before a final. but if i had been playing like he had been, heck, i would've been saying the same things! Tennis-X.com :: Xtreme Tennis News
  • Her Aunt Sallie gave her an uncharacteristically extravagant gift.
  • He remembered David saying once, in an uncharacteristically serious manner, that Nick had a rough time at home. LOST SUMMER
  • It is uncharacteristically diligent of a minister to seek precisely to understand what money spent will accomplish.
  • Towards the end of on uncharacteristically orderly day, the avuncular former dictator once again grabbed center stage, accusing his American captors of mistreatment, beatings, even torture.
  • The hero is uncharacteristically drawn into a scene of violence.
  • ‘OK, sorry,’ Leanne said, taken aback by Rob's uncharacteristically foul mood.
  • Her Aunt Sallie gave her an uncharacteristically extravagant gift.
  • A fine copy, with topstain uncharacteristically rich, in an unfaded, nearly perfect dust jacket with just a couple of tiny spots of rubbing. Jan Herman: Book Bling for Sale
  • In the course of it, the presenter became uncharacteristically tongue-tied and repetitive, which is hardly surprising.
  • Years later, the sacking still makes the normally placid Burt uncharacteristically testy, but he doesn't dwell on it.
  • Like watching paint dry" – John Kear in uncharacteristically ungracious mood after his Wakefield team had been drubbed at Wigan on Easter Monday. My Super League awards show
  • he was uncharacteristically cool
  • The fifth-set end-game started with Djokovic serving at 3-4 and stringing together an uncharacteristically bad game, getting broken at love on two mishit forehands, a framer of Federer's that set up a winner and a double fault on a second serve that missed the line by about a foot. Novak Djokovic Eliminates Roger Federer In U.S. Open Semifinals
  • Miller was especially wounded by Mailer's scathing verdict on his uncharacteristically whimsical travelogue The Colossus Of Maroussi.
  • My date's chauffeur had to wait for hours on an uncharacteristically nippy September night while we discussed the twin towers disaster.
  • It may already be too late to take the more open-handed British approach, and for reasons of self-preservation they may need to adopt an uncharacteristically guarded stance.
  • There's a fustiness about Mr. Beatty's uncharacteristically lackluster stage set, which he locates sort of in the 17th century. A Million Tartuffes Later, Is Moli��re Still Breathing?

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