Millais, the group's finest draftsman and all-round painter, later evolved into an assured if unimaginative society portraitist and a magnificent painter of autumnal landscapes.

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But unimaginative policy alternatives also play a part: a tax reform scheme still less gripping than the government's own (doomed) one, a stance on pensions reform that even the trade unions think outdated.

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Far from sounding incomplete or unimaginative, however, the music has such a strong narrative flow that the absence of lyrics is hardly a weakness.

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The astronomy community has a long history of descriptive yet fairly unimaginative names - including the VLA itself, the Very Large Telescope in Chile, and the yet-to-be-built European Extremely Large Telescope (the design for which was chosen over the alternative Overwhelmingly Large Telescope).

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Virtually every morning, it seems, image-makers in the gainful employ of opposition leader Tony Abbott and Prime Minister Julia Gillard conjure up some kind of unimaginative photo-opportunity, where their leaders appear brandishing a blow-torch, a spade, a butcher's knife, an on-button or some kind of piece of light industrial machinery.

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Apple is a symptom of that problem hoarding cash it is too scared or unimaginative to spend.

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It represented the most predictable, boring, and unimaginative attack the Wehrmacht had launched during the war and it ended, as it should have, in a complete defeat of Army Group Central.

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