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Example sentences for: unglamorous

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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.
The unglamorous but essential work of oversight has been neglected, and few members past or present believe it is performed well.
In interviews around the government, official after official urged us to call attention to frustrations with the unglamorous "back office" side of government operations.
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."
Critics claimed to discern superfluous gloss, but what she did was to apply the invigorating rhetoric of of gloss to the supposedly unglamorous, and thereby encourage reades to try what they might otherwise disdain; only thus can I account for her kindly tolerance of my grimmer taste.