Sentence examples for underwhelms from inspiring English sources

Trade and investment in eastern Siberia and the Russian Far East fall far short of their potential, and the grim dilapidation of cities like Vladivostok and Khabarovsk is a shock to anyone from Asia's fast-moving metropolises.Russia's Asian diplomacy also underwhelms.

Yet for all his fine aspirations, the country underwhelms.

It's not a new trick (Philippe Parreno has used it, for one), and it underwhelms here.

Overinflated, Horn underwhelms.

Perhaps Ms. Walsh, who is known to television audiences from "Grey's Anatomy" and "Private Practice," underwhelms in that opening monologue because she's eager to get past the exposition and plunge into the much richer material Mr. Belber has given her in the heart of the play.

And Mr. Mortensen keeps you watching, even when the movie's storytelling underwhelms.

The title of Diana Souhami's book, Murder at Wrotham Hill (Quercus) is underwhelming until one discovers it is not on the crime shelves, but is classified as history.

Some Sinn Féin politicians pronounced themselves "underwhelmed" – and found themselves roundly attacked.

Let's run through a typical example, level-by-level … On the ground floor: endless rows of what the Japanese call "UFO grabbers" – those familiar fairground games in which you make a doomed attempt to grab an underwhelming prize using a mechanised claw.

When he did finally die it felt underwhelming.

Brian appeared entirely underwhelmed to be dropped in it.