The lengthy and complex selection process has sometimes been criticised for producing stodgy and unadventurous shortlists.

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Guffawing critics ridicule this well-oiled "Singabore", casting its good citizens as naive, skin-deep and unadventurous.

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The residents of Developer Town, however, are nothing like the unadventurous Hobbits.

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National television industries tended to be geared to filling the limited number of slots on domestic channels and their output was often unadventurous or just plain dull.

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But for large periods, they struggled to break down a hard-working but unadventurous Blackburn side, playing with defender Christopher Samba and David Dunn, both having recovered from swine flu.

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Described by publishers Little Brown and Co as "blackly comic, thought-provoking and constantly surprising", there were mixed reviews for the novel when it was published in September, with Rowling variously described as "unadventurous", "bleak" and "brilliant" by newspaper critics.

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The musical selections are unadventurous.

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