Sentence examples for uninventive from inspiring English sources

Pfizer's arguments failed in Britain, for example, because its patent was ruled too "obvious": the imaginary skilled but uninventive technician that the courts use to judge such matters was ruled capable of deducing Pfizer's invention from existing public knowledge.

Some major resident companies earned unexpected criticism in their own communities for dull or uninventive programming the flagship Guthrie Theater of Minneapolis, Minn., for example, met with backlash when it announced a stolid, virtually all-male 2014 15 season but others went out of their way to cultivate adventurousness and youthful buzz.

While the licence is preserved effectively enough to please Lucas diehards, and the early stages are mildly diverting, a clunky control system and repetitive, uninventive level design will leave you pining for what might have been.

But people are amazingly uninventive about portraying older women.

Classic-age Hollywood is full of movies for and about adults that are dull, stodgy, and uninventive — writerly and actorly, honoring traditional values with a secret whiff of piety and an eye on the cash box, rather Mantovani than Beethoven, rather Don Sebesky than John Coltrane.

Much of documentary filmmaking these days fits into a narrow slot of conventional techniques and tones, and the special pleading on behalf of documentaries by specialists in the field tends to reward and to reinforce such complacent, uninventive tendencies.

The production, by the director David McVicar, is uninventive and safe.

The group consists mainly of three uninventive boys on bikes, but its leader names them the Death Rays, entirely without irony.

Boredom should not be abused, exploited, ignored, sneered at, rejected or talked down to as a product of laziness or of an idle, uninventive and boring mind.

In a plot-driven show, musical embellishment so uninventive appears intrusive.

I must say, I get fed up, as a practising novelist, being asked by yob journalists,"Why are you British novelists so uninventive/ so dull/ so uninterested in the world".