| It was the close of an eventless, careless, tiresome period. |
| The story you find bland and eventless may be just the story someone else is waiting to hear. |
| It occasions some of the deeper writing in the book, as Tartt slows from her adventurous storytelling to the eventless calm of ekphrasis, and describes the mournful splendor of Fabritius's own painterly patience. |
| The rout and surrender of the French forces that June ended his eventless career as a regular soldier, and he spent the succeeding months in the rustic cocoon of captivity, with Grosjean. |
| For it is impossible that life, in whatever conditions, can be eventless. |
| Which is why the most important moment for a nascent democracy is not necessarily the fall of the autocrat or its first democratic election but its first eventless, democratic transition. |
