Dragicevic's combination of bleached-out chroma, lack of bravura and resurrected idioms makes for commendably uningratiating paintings. |
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Her performance is convincing in its clinical detail, deeply moving in its inexorable progress, wholly uningratiating. |
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Surely, no one would paint pictures as aggressively uningratiating as those of Dumas unless she meant them. |
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Played with a firm, uningratiating beauty by the half-Swedish Caroline Lagerfelt – loose hair, steady stare, level delivery, silk dressing gown and big brown brogues – she unsettles, abuses, tantalises and leaves. |
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Stengel has given us less a brief history than an anecdotal genealogy of ingratiation in a book that is conceptually unfocused and surprisingly graceless, i.e., uningratiating. |
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It's too bad his interesting arguments and observations are wedged into such an uningratiating book. |
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