a. (UN-1 7.)
Also, in recent use, unsensationalism, -ally adv.
1865. Pall Mall G., 8 Aug., 11. The name of a French novel, quiet and unsensational.
1875. Annie Thomas, A Narrow Escape, III. xiv. 218. The got through the hours very quietly indeed, very unsensationally and pleasantly in fact, in the Forests’ house.
1881. ‘Rita,’ My Lady Coquette, xxii. Altogether life is very drowsy and unsensational.
1891. W. S. B. Mathews, Pop. Hist. Mus., 318–9. Without this idea of singing, and more than this, of a pure spirit singing, the Mozart adagios are open to the charge often made against them in these later days by the unthinking, who find in them only the external peculiarities of simplicity and diatonic quality, with the unsensationalism which technical reserve implies.
