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Example sentences for: unglamorous

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The unglamorous but essential work of oversight has been neglected, and few members past or present believe it is performed well.
Cynthia Gorney's new history of the conflict over abortion could serve as an advertisement for an imperiled form of journalism: the long, meticulously researched narrative of ideas in which unglamorous noncelebrities drive the action.
They hail Natasha Richardson's unglamorous portrayal of Sally Bowles--an aging, seedy bisexual nightclub singer--as the "performance of the season" (Ben Brantley, the New York Times ). Dissenting, the Washington Post 's Lloyd Rose says Richardson "can't phrase a song."
The Washington Post 's Tom Shales says the show, about an unglamorous firm whose lawyers take on lowlifes as clients and work in shabby offices, skillfully interweaves several plots into a single episode.
The women who rose to the top invented flamboyant personas to go with their step-by-step systems, but they came from distinctly unglamorous backgrounds.