How To Use Unromantic In A Sentence
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An unromantic aide of Churchill said simply that she mixed "sex and politics".
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So unromantic, so banausic, so thoroughly unappealing, yet for all that imponderably heroic.
Stephen Fry: The Great Stink of 2005
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In fact, it would be fair to describe her as unromantic in her attitudes to love, marriage and compatibility.
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Ian Storey as Erik looks unromantic, but acquits himself well in this uncharacteristically Italianate role.
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Fish is cooked in ovens of hot stones, along with sweet potatoes wrapped in leaves, served with the leaves of an edible hibiscus, unromantically called ‘slippery cabbage’ and boiled with coconut milk.
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The film's brutally unromantic conception of religion is summed up in this one scene.
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It was about time inflation kicked in, but some will question the unromantic decision to replace paper money with plastic debit cards, thus stymying those of us who like to hide a £500 note under the board to save for a rainy day, or chuck all our money in the air when we win.
Monopoly Revolution predicted to be Christmas toy bestseller
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Generally flooded by cold lighting, Boyd's and Piper's stage provided a ferociously unromantic setting for this most famous of romantic tragedies.
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The by-law proposal is only the product of the utterly unromantic and dreary administrative process of harmonizing all the old bylaws left over from the pre-amalgamated municipalities that now make up Toronto.
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Others, like The Good Samaritan, have a bitter humanity to them that will have even the most unromantic of you crying into your cappuccino.
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In the years since then, the Park Service has continued to keep the old lighthouse in operating condition in case its unromantic replacement ever breaks down.
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And that was the most unromantic start to any affair, but it's what happened.
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Her planned future, teaching small Swedes, marriage to a Dane, the life of a conventional housewife, seemed remote and unromantic.
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It was the most unromantic form of oscular contact, and I could see it was hopeless.
DEATH IN PURPLE PROSE
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His invention has not made so much noise and larum in the world as some others, which have an origin quite as humble and unromantic; but it is one to which we owe no small profit, and a great deal of pleasure; and, as such, we are bound to speak of it with all gratitude and respect.
The Paris Sketch Book
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The area around the old port is lovely and the cobbled back streets are worth exploring, but it's a pretty unromantic place, trying to live down its reputation as the drug capital of France.
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Or are all men's lives like the lives of us good people… broken, tumultuous, agonised and unromantic lives, periods punctuated by screams, by imbecilities, by death, by agonies?
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Life without gas, electricity and decent plumbing must have been one long unromantic round of time-consuming inconvenience.
ULTIMATE PRIZES
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Such advantages come with a price - the bigger world is a tougher, unromantic place, especially where huge businesses are involved.
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we got married, rather unromantically, in a dingy office in the town hall
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Hoardings, which dot the main thoroughfares, used to look bland and unromantic.
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This compelling book conveys an image of real life: grim, unromanticized, but deeply human.
The Times Literary Supplement
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And, after the fashion of our still too adolescent world, Mr. Britling and Mr.. Harrowdean proceeded to negotiate these extremely unromantic matters in the phrases of that simple, honest and youthful passionateness which is still the only language available, and at times
Mr. Britling Sees It Through
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The threat posed by the unromantically named asteroid 2002 NT7 is an eerie echo of the plot of disaster movies such as Armageddon.
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It's not unsexy, it's not unromantic, it's not unreasonable, it's not lacking in passion or love, it's just the right thing.
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But she now saw it as symbolic: she had entered the unromantic period of her life, and because her daughter had helped her father choose the dish, she was in cahoots with him.
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But Mr. Pen was blushing while he made this reply to his unromantical friend, and indeed cared a great deal more about himself still than such a philosopher perhaps should have done.
The History of Pendennis, Volume 2 His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy
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For the last hour she has insisted she is totally unromantic about the life she has chosen.
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The myth of the aloof, unromantic Scot has been dented by one of the biggest studies of love, sex and marriage ever carried out in this country.
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Not that I am a skinflint or unromantic, but it has been refreshing to view the whole event from a neutral standpoint.
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It may sound unromantic, but retiring overseas is not just about those sun-kissed beaches and fields of sunflowers.
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`Well, I suppose you could say so, though that sounds unromantic for how it actually felt.
DEATH IN PURPLE PROSE
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Kitty, recalling the unromantic appearance of Alexey
Anna Karenina
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Sandra's former husband denied he was unromantic adding: ‘I thought it would be quite a good present because she always liked gardening.’
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Men don't settle down because of the right woman. They settle down because they are finally ready for it. Whatever woman they're dating when they get ready is the one they settle down with, not necessarily the best one or the prettiest, just the one who happened to be on hand when the time got to be right. Unromantic, but still true. Laurell K. Hamilton
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I'm looking forward to the weekend but I'm not sure about being dubbed the most unromantic couple in Yorkshire.
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Neither of his two wives had been to him what Shelley Anderson was in his unromantic middle age.
THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
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His kindness, his gentleness and his intelligence, which she had foolishly deplored as somehow unromantic, now suddenly seemed very appealing and attractive.
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Freemartins" a decidedly unromantic term normally applied to masculinized female cattle, are sterile women who are therefore especially available.
Jonathan D. Moreno: Brave New World Turns 80
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Here is an unromantic love poem for your enjoyment.
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The word "unromantic" in the same sentence should have tipped me off; though there was a recorded instance of its use before 1800, it wasn't yet in currency at the time Cowell was supposedly writing.
"Contested Will"
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Much of the grain spirit that goes into the dominant blends is made in eight vast, unromantic alcohol factories without twee visitor centres across the central belt from Girvan to Dumbarton to Leven in Fife.
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This seems to me an admirably succinct account of what might be called the unromantic school of ecocriticism (disencumbered of the notion that literature can and ought to be deployed as a weapon in the battle to stave off our "headlong rush into destruction," that it might "help us tread more lightly on the earth").
The State of Criticism
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Eileen hiccuped --- quite unromantically --- turned her nose sharply into his cheek and then dropped her bag, heavily, onto his feet.
BEHINDLINGS
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Gomorrah, directed by Matteo Garrone, is an unflinching and unromantic look at the story of the Camorra - the crime syndicate, operative in Naples and Caserta, that is responsible for more murders than the IRA or Cosa Nostra.
National Review Online
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In the end, he came to my landlocked town of Nelson, British Columbia, and we fished for kokanee from the city wharf, sandwiched unromantically between the hotel and the airstrip.
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In these unromantic establishments, romantic dreams are dreamed.
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I would've been scared of being accused of being unromantic or cheap.
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One of the pinups named Gretchen, for example, clearly doesn't have the desired effect; her ‘Dutch cap seemed unromantic and precluded the element of mystery.’
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It used to be only in America that cities were defined rather unromantically as ‘municipal corporations occupying a definite area’.
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The fancy can no more soar and disport in skyey regions, the beloved object ceases at once to be celestial, and remains plodding on earth, entirely unromantic and substantial.
The Virginians
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The zoo might seem a bizarrely unromantic venue, but these ‘get to know you’ meetings are not about romance - and certainly not about physical contact.
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It's that plain and simple: find a mate, copulate, produce offspring, raise it, set it off into the world when the time comes, retire. That's what the Unromantics say.
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This seems to me an admirably succinct account of what might be called the unromantic school of ecocriticism (disencumbered of the notion that literature can and ought to be deployed as a weapon in the battle to stave off our "headlong rush into destruction," that it might "help us tread more lightly on the earth").
The State of Criticism
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thought Kitty, recalling the unromantic appearance of Alexey Alexandrovitch, her husband.
Chapter XX. Part I
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I had some unromantic, but highly enjoyable… fun.
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It sounds decidedly unromantic but when it comes to practicality, Grevett has hit the nail on the head.
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Belgium! name unromantic and unpoetic, yet name that whenever uttered has in my ear a sound, in my heart an echo, such as no other assemblage of syllables, however sweet or classic, can produce.
The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte
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Men took a verbal thrashing as they were labelled unromantic (57%), thoughtless (35%) and inconsiderate (24%).
Men encouraged to think outside the chocolate box
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The Rockpile, as Mount Washington is unromantically nicknamed, towers 6,288 feet above sea level.
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He would fain have kissed the spot that had been pressed by a patch put on by Elsie, but he was "unromantic," and refrained.
The Red Man's Revenge A Tale of The Red River Flood
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My heart is pure and unsullied by such base, unromantic notions.
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But Mr. Pen was blushing whilst he made this reply to his unromantical friend, and indeed cared a great deal more about himself still than such a philosopher perhaps should have done.
The History of Pendennis
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Something happened to the "bower" -- an unromantic workman mowed it down -- but by this time there was a little house there which Mrs. Clemens had built, just for the children.
The Boys' Life of Mark Twain
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It used to be only in America that cities were defined rather unromantically as ‘municipal corporations occupying a definite area’.
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All these things are completely unromantic, very sober, very businesslike - the members are registered, trained, controlled.