| They are soon enjoying an unspectacular affair of the kind seen in third-rate novels and, often, in real life. |
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| As it is, the programme's loose, safe and profoundly unspectacular definition of culture risks pleasing nobody in an attempt to please everyone. |
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| It is a typical example of cost effective film making bringing correspondingly unspectacular results. |
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| In a game when City were solid if unspectacular, the fans who travelled to Southend would have been forgiven for not being over enthusiastic. |
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| When six Premiership sides go head-to-head and the non-league teams are drawn in unspectacular ties, it doesn't help. |
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| In fact I had a mostly unspectacular childhood with no broken bones and countless cuts and bruises in your average middle class nuclear family. |
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| The only other scores of a hard-fought, if unspectacular affair, arrived in the opening 13 minutes of the second half. |
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| Technically, both films reflect the customary unspectacular competence associated with Hallmark productions. |
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| Those looking for unspectacular but solid returns could consider the equity income sector as an option. |
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| Sound quality is solid if unspectacular across the board, though the dialogue is a mite whispery in places. |
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| However, Inverness toiled to make their victory a certainty but the second goal 13 minutes from the end was an unspectacular affair. |
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| He has moulded a solid, if unspectacular side and his signings have shown him to be a good judge of player. |
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| The Welshman defended his WBO belt with an effective, if unspectacular, display against his gutsy Kosovan opponent. |
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| After putting out a couple of unspectacular albums, she spent much of the 1980s waitressing and working in a record store. |
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| Stock markets will break their three-year losing streak, but the recovery will be unspectacular, Irish business leaders said. |
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| Desjardins is still an above-average rearguard on a competent but unspectacular defensive corps. |
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| Under the baton of Marek Janowski, the orchestra, known for its bright French musicality, interprets Bruckner's works in an unspectacular manner. |
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| Unpretentiously and in unspectacular manner, he thus free the way for a picture. |
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| This was an unspectacular performance from Manchester United but suggested Moyes's players are becoming familiar with their duties. |
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| Existing home sales numbers were released to an unspectacular reception with the numbers failing to reach their expected targets. |
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| Added to this is the fact that the large majority of private equity business is very unspectacular. |
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| And there is nothing for which it is more difficult to secure funds than the unspectacular business of maintaining an organization. |
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| The results painted the picture of an industry shaken to its very foundations, facing the threat of an unspectacular but consistent decline. |
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| Both races went the same way and were, apart from the start phase, mostly unspectacular. |
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| The result was enough to send the unspectacular but effective Italians through. |
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| Their first single, Life in a Day, made it to a fairly unspectacular 62 in the UK charts, and it was to be a few more years before their fortunes changed. |
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| The weather scuppered the viewing of the winter solstice sunset from Maeshowe on Tuesday, with low cloud and rain making for an unspectacular event. |
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| He has made an impressive, if unspectacular start to his term of office and he strikes me as someone who will be very fair and thorough over his dealing with issues. |
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| Yet even these unspectacular results have considerable significance. |
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| The real surprise though is how unspectacular the programme is. |
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| The position of libero in volleyball is a very unspectacular one. |
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| The actor's bizarre interlude essentially negated a solid if unspectacular performance by the Republican nominee for president. |
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| There were silent films and early talkies, most of them unspectacular. |
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| There's no tendency to stall following collapses, the dive and turn is easy to control, or the pilot may choose to let the wing open by itself in the very unspectacular turn. |
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| The need for parallel treatment of numerous directives, each of a very specific character, may perhaps cause the results achieved to appear rather unspectacular in the eyes of the uninitiated. |
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| Guilty As Sin, Free As A Bird is the unspectacular title of 79-year-old Eleanor Cook's book and Ray Hultman, 62, will pen The Deliberator. |
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| But now that's where I like to be the most because at some point or other as life progresses you gain new insights and wisdom, and learn to love the unspectacular. |
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| These cases, in which his clients were generally large businesses, were unspectacular but financially rewarding. |
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| His paintings are white, and often seem unspectacular at first glance. |
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| This method of cooperation, admittedly unspectacular, but inspired by long-term confidence-building, is the cornerstone of other long-term missions. |
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| There was more action of consequence at the bottom than the top but the leaders Gillingham were able to stretch their advantage to eight points with an unspectacular 1-0 win over Accrington. |
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| The unspectacular recovery means that stimulus policies will continue. |
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| I like the idea of something very small, whether it be dust or a mark, something seemingly unspectacular in many situations, and then being able to build a narrative from that. |
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| Scouting's contribution to peace, while educational and therefore unspectacular, is, however, fundamental, since it prepares the ground for true and lasting peace. |
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| The fascination of the movie lies in watching this unspectacular, mild-tempered fellow outwit some of the worst thugs and profiteers who ever managed to deliver their own country into disaster. |
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| They won most of the possession in an unspectacular first half with Neil Watkins nicking some useful line-out ball from wayward throw-ins. |
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| This is already bearing fruit as Member States bring their own policies into line with the Community framework and thus increase compliance with state aid rules in an unspectacular, but satisfactory manner. |
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| An inspection mission sounds fairly unspectacular but in truth it fulfils a vital role in ensuring that the bridge's structure and condition are adequate to support the maximum probable load with a suitable safety factor. |
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| Once begun, its progress was steady if unspectacular. |
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| The rib eye steak I had at Christmas was fine, if unspectacular. |
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