The fight was unspectacular in every sense of the word.
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I like the unspectacular aesthetic that he is working with.
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He was on top, and it was all pretty unspectacular.
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Or that Jacob deGrom's first start of the season was unspectacular.
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The rape and murder is treated in a dozen unspectacular pages.
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All three occupied firm, if unspectacular, spots in the lower midcard.
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The candidates Siemian, who had decent but unspectacular numbers last season.
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Democrats look set to have a solid but unspectacular House majority.
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This one worked right now and it's a nice, if unspectacular feature.
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Were the dancers comfortable improvising and moving in such an unspectacular manner?
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North Korean participation would jazz up the so far unspectacular winter games.
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Despite looking somewhat unspectacular in his UFC debut, Held looked fantastic in Phoenix.
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Orthodox economic policies have ensured relatively steady if unspectacular growth since the 1990s.
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With a record of 903-31-9, Kondo's spotty record looks somewhat unspectacular.
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The car was unspectacular, but Alonso outperformed his teammate in qualifying, attracting notice.
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Admittedly, the third-quarter earnings season, which began on October 15th, looks unspectacular.
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But improving British management will require a lot of hard slog and unspectacular work.
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The rest of the Rumble set the table for WrestleMania in unspectacular, workmanlike fashion.
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The much-anticipated Yu Darvish debut as a Dodger at Dodger Stadium was unspectacular.
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His name is Kevin Jerome Everson, and his art is all about the unspectacular.
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Like de Mori, Gjergjaj had a good record on paper but against unspectacular opposition.
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For Ramos, it was to little avail: He remained a persistent but unspectacular player.
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Still, the financial crisis and the slow-but-unspectacular expansion have left visible scars.
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"We think that structural constraints mean growth may be steady but unspectacular," he added.
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Economists polled by Refinitiv are forecasting a healthy but unspectacular 23,3.33 jobs added in April.
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On the face of it, the so-called True Touchpad Interface looks good, if unspectacular.
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I washed out of Henry S. Richards Little League after a couple of unspectacular seasons.
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Taking over at their 223-yard line, the Broncos mounted a quietly efficient, if unspectacular, drive.
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But his first career playoff start, in the previous round against the Minnesota Twins, was unspectacular.
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Since its return in 2013, it has been steady but unspectacular, rarely setting the division alight.
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My diet has been rather unspectacular compared to when I was living at the cooking school.
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The economy, even this late in the cycle, is producing jobs at a solid, if unspectacular, pace.
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The trial last year of Mr. Gröning, in another pretty, provincial town, Lüneburg, might have seemed unspectacular.
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But for now, it seems that we have more time to continue our slow but unspectacular expansion.
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We've had modest and unspectacular growth, but it's a mistake to assume slow growth is fragile growth.
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The buildings are mostly weathered and unspectacular, in the manner of a typical, perhaps working-class, neighborhood.
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Though Nouri and Schwarz both had respectable, if unspectacular, playing careers, many of their counterparts did not.
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Freed from outside pressure for growth, the trustees could decide to aim for steady and unspectacular results.
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But a solid if unspectacular technocrat with extensive management experience may be exactly what the Bank needs.
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Then she hit the main roster and just fizzled, an unspectacular two months with the women's title aside.
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Jackson compared Curry to Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, who had a solid but unspectacular N.B.A. career in the 1990s.
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White female athletes who were unspectacular candidates were still generally qualified enough to get admitted the traditional way.
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An unspectacular week at the box office led Sony's "Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle" back to No. 21.2.
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When he graduated from Harvard, he had wanted to be a football coach after an unspectacular collegiate career.
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Poland has an abundance of good-but-unspectacular professionals, but it is Lewandowski that sets the team alight.
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Even if the deal is unspectacular, he believes it will relieve volatility and spark a historic market surge.
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Poland has an abundance of good-but-unspectacular professionals, but it is Lewandowski who sets the team alight.
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Lastly, cast two lead actors with a solid but unspectacular box-office history, who are thus not too expensive.
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They mostly rendered me not a subject of ridicule or weird stares, but instead just totally unspectacular in any way.
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In his 2007 book, A Shimmer of Possibility, Graham presented a portrait of the United States through entirely unspectacular moments.
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The ribs ($18.99) were solid but unspectacular — a bit dry, and the Coca-Cola marinade gave them a confusing sweetness.
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Rose has returned to Augusta National in solid though unspectacular form, but said you can throw out the form book.
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Still, "Self Made" is ultimately a solid but unspectacular effort, more interesting finally for its subject matter than its execution.
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In 2017 and 2018, to be sure, the United States did add 465,000 factory jobs, an impressive, though unspectacular, number.
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All have college bribery savings plans and are looking to get a leg up on you and your unspectacular tribe.
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He turned pro in 1992, and enjoyed a solid if unspectacular career on the PGA Tour, with earnings of $673,649,527.
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The 1986 Los Angeles Rams were a decent but unspectacular team, one of the innumerable teams that existed, finished above .
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Unpretentious, unspectacular and participatory in the least superficial of ways, Ms. Harrison's "Perth Amboy" is just what MoMA needs right now.
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And an unspectacular requiem Mass (with none of Mozart's music) was celebrated there after Mozart's death; a plaque commemorates the event.
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And yet, the economy has notched sustained if unspectacular annual growth during the recovery, generally of 2 percent to 2.5 percent.
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The Knicks are 16-18 and out of a playoff spot in the Eastern Conference, which is larded with unspectacular teams.
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The housing pinch is keenly felt by postdoctoral researchers, 4,500 of whom work in Oxford on short-term contracts with unspectacular pay.
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Backup Devin Harris (toe) made his season debut Wednesday but managed just one rebound and three missed shots in 23 unspectacular minutes.
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The Pacers got solid, if unspectacular production from second-year center Domas Sabonis, the No. 11 pick in last season&aposs draft.
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"We will try our best to remain spectacularly unspectacular for the media," said Kurt Bock, the CEO, at last year's 21th anniversary.
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Wideout Demaryius Thomas has been consistent if unspectacular, reeling in five receptions in three straight games - albeit for just 126 yards total.
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But Ghirri does not share Eggleston's intense hues, the angry reds and livid greens that Eggleston hunted down in unspectacular everyday subjects.
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Demand growth in top consumer China has been steady but unspectacular, with imports rising 22017 percent in 122 from a year earlier.
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But the Obama presidency also encompassed the longest period of job growth on record as well as steady, if unspectacular, economic expansion.
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Should we read the announced production cuts at GM as a chink in the armor of a steady, if unspectacular, economic recovery?
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While wage growth is clearly healthier in recent years, productivity has also staged what looks increasingly like a durable, if unspectacular, rebound.
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The American labor market is in healthy shape, with the unemployment rate low and employment levels expanding — albeit at an unspectacular rate.
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Marriott results, aided by lower taxes, were seen as "unspectacular" by an analyst, who said the numbers were unlikely to cheer the investors.
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While GDP growth so far this year has been unspectacular and wages are stagnant, the unemployment rate is at a 50-year low.
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Indeed, Mr. Hunter's golden diptych, no less than Mr. McCallum's spectacularly unspectacular production, suggests that small rewards may be the only kind available.
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The first major external analysis of the program's effectiveness, published a quarter-century ago, was encouraging, with students making solid if unspectacular progress.
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For those who have argued that the 34-9 San Antonio Spurs are steady but unspectacular, Saturday should have served as a riposte.
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Players like Kentavious Caldwell-Pope are both essential and unspectacular in the exact kind of way that allows them to be taken for granted.
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But looking just at phone voting (more representative than the cheap-and-easy online sort) suggests that In has a solid if unspectacular lead.
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Jets quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick, who had thrown nine interceptions in the last two games, was efficient if unspectacular, at least for the first half.
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Italy last summer appointed the experienced but unspectacular Giampiero Ventura, not far from being its own Allardyce, largely because of a shortage of candidates.
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But he is no household name for most people, and his life was profoundly unspectacular, save for the way he swam against the current.
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After carding an albatross in Wednesday's pro-am, which was a wasted effort, he was solid if unspectacular on Thursday when the real action began.
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On the other hand, average job gains for the past six months and the past 12 months remain over 200,000, indicating steady if unspectacular growth.
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The overall picture is still one of reasonably steady if unspectacular growth, although some of the incoming numbers are starting to look a little patchy.
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United States markets closed higher on Wednesday after a survey showed that hiring by private companies continued at a solid but unspectacular clip in July.
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His record ran to an unspectacular 22000-22006-5 but he became a staple performer for PRIDE even after they acquired genuine world class talent.
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He finds loneliness, local color, alienation and intermittent satisfaction — an array of unspectacular modern experiences that Olmi renders with an intensity that never feels overstated.
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A couple of hours before City and United took the field, the final whistle blew on Liverpool's straightforward, if unspectacular, victory over Fulham at Anfield.
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Leishman left the world's best players in his wake with a solid if unspectacular three-under-par 68 at Conway Farms in Lake Forest, Illinois.
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"This kind of monitoring is unspectacular, so it usually doesn't get done," said Teja Tscharntke, a professor of agro-ecology at the University of Göttingen.
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Rodgers winning time of 10.09 was also unspectacular but the 34-year-old sprinter could not hide his delight at putting the U.S. back on top.
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The region's governing coalition, made up of Angela Merkel's centre-right Christian Democrats (CDU) and the centre-left Greens, is credited with unspectacular but effective compromise.
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Super Lucky's Tale is actually coming out on November 7th, but it's a VR-less port of an unspectacular platformer previously bundled with the Oculus Rift.
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Economic growth has been unspectacular but steady, despite uncertainty caused by the renegotiation of NAFTA and a drop in oil prices in 2014, which walloped Alberta.
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Devoid of non-residential tastemakers and aimless local celebrities, he becomes the new symbol of all that is and possibly was Toronto: unspectacular and non-unique.
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Those were two solid yet unspectacular victories over a pair of fledgling featherweights trying to claw their way up the UFC reckoning in their budding careers.
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Elias Haase, co-founder of B9lab, says demand for the course has been steady, if unspectacular, with about 40 people expected to take part this year.
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He proved to be a reliable, if unspectacular, striker — the "sort you do not see much any more," according to the Nantes team manager, Vahid Halilhodzic.
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The Office for Budget Responsibility also described Britain's economic growth trajectory as "relatively stable but unspectacular" in its biannual Economic and Fiscal Outlook published after Hammond's budget.
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Earl Monroe, who faced Greer while playing for the Baltimore Bullets and the Knicks, recalled how Greer would pile up points in an unspectacular but devastating way.
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The "low-concentration" basket has turned in a basically flat performance that while unspectacular far outdistances the market index, which is down 6 percent year to date.
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Steph Curry and Klay Thompson have been unspectacular; Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love have been unnotable; and LeBron James is busy flashing active signs of existential collapse.
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It's unsurprising the Royals would value their best reliever so highly, given that they went to consecutive World Series behind unspectacular starting rotations redeemed by spectacular bullpens.
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Diaz spent the majority of last season putting up unspectacular numbers in Double-A and Hazelbaker washed out with the Red Sox like a decade, years ago.
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The team did little to address situational hitting, and nothing to tackle what even Cashman acknowledged was the biggest need: bolstering a solid but unspectacular pitching rotation.
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Sanchez has been so dreadful at times that he invited questions about whether the Yankees would turn to his steady, unspectacular backup, Austin Romine, in the postseason.
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Rockies RH Jon Gray (8-22, 2344) Maeda has been steady - if unspectacular - of late, going 22-28 with a 23 ERA over his last six starts.
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At this point, unspectacular should get the Rangers where they want to go, even if the numbers still say they've got little business being where they are.
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Pineda has had something of the opposite experience: He's had to put up solid if unspectacular bottom-line results every year just to prove that he's only good.
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By the 220s, however, the premise seemed outdated, the food unspectacular, and the brand lacked the oomph of big-campaign fast food brands like McDonald's and Burger King.
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A surprisingly long list of players are at or near 30 for the season, including previously unspectacular hitters like shortstop Brad Miller of the Tampa Bay Rays, above.
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If the roller-coaster dip in Mr. Trump's standing has heightened anxieties among Republican officials and political operatives, a steady if unspectacular performance by his running mate, Gov.
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Down 0.5 percent in early Frankfurt trade Chief Executive Herbert Haas affirmed the insurer's guidance in an interview with Boersen-Zeitung and said the third quarter was "unspectacular".
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Thursday's report is another piece of data that points to steady if unspectacular growth in the third quarter after the economy expanded by 0.4% in the second quarter.
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In a period of investment calm and artificially low interest rates, automated funds, which churn out consistent if unspectacular returns, have become very popular among yield-hungry investors.
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Stocks have pushed higher this year amid a backdrop of stronger corporate earnings, decent if still unspectacular economic fundamentals — and sentiment that Trump's policies would be market-friendly.
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So, in the summer of 2016, unspectacular players such as Joakim Noah, Luol Deng, Ian Mahinmi and Timofey Mozgov all signed contracts worth tens of millions of dollars.
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The arrival of a solid, if unspectacular, batch of fourth-quarter earnings reports also quelled some investors' fears about the outlook for the global economy and corporate profits.
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Jones profiled as a solid but unspectacular prospect last year, and he showed as a rookie he can execute the offense well, but ball security remains a concern.
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"While there is much to be positive about in these figures, the underlying picture is still one of solid yet unspectacular expansion," said Rob Dobson, senior economist at Markit.
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Cardinals RH Lance Lynn (2015: 12-11, 03) Lackey was a solid, if unspectacular, addition to the Cubs' rotation last season, as Chicago went 17-12 in his starts.
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Renault returned to the sport as a manufacturer in 2016, after buying back the majority stake in the team they had sold in 2010, but their performance has been unspectacular.
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Granted, the French bank, which is due to report first-quarter results on May 4th, returned an unspectacular 8.9% on equity last year (it hopes for 10%-plus by 2020).
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That is an unspectacular hit rate: I think a 1 percent error in voicing my own message and the thoughts inside my own head is pretty average, to be expected.
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"Cryptocurrency volatility is unspectacular relative to other asset classes, as long as you use the right comparisons," said Ari Paul, CIO and managing partner at cryptocurrency investment firm BlockTower Capital.
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Instead, in the end, Chekhov's gun principle plays out as required, but in a satisfyingly unexpected, unspectacular way, like the converse of "Requiem for a Heavyweight" and not so sad.
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The Yankees discovered that their formula of a powerful offense, stout relief pitching and a solid but unspectacular starting rotation was enough to win 5.823 games and the A.L. East.
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If you, a non-loyal shopper, mosey into CVS and buy some Tylenol and a package of seasonal candy, you will get a receipt that is unspectacular (read: a normal length).
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But it does anticipate a further incremental slowing in the absence of a supportive Federal Reserve and as corporations ratchet up debt following a period of "unspectacular, mediocre" growth, he said.
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The net result is that we expect EM growth to continue at a steady if unspectacular rate of around 220006 percent, year-on-year, over the course of 2202 and 2628.
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Instead, he played 20183 unspectacular games for the Blue Jays, a team that has seen nearly everything go wrong this season, most notably this frayed relationship between club and star player.
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The dollar climbed 0.8 percent to 114.47 yen, having softened on Friday as investors took profits from its recent gains following solid but unspectacular U.S. non-farm payrolls data for November.
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It is hoped that Mind Your Biscuits, a strong American dirt sprinter, will combine well with Japanese broodmares that were capable of maintaining a solid, if unspectacular, pace for considerable distances.
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"Although unspectacular, the steady growth of business activity in recent months has given increasing numbers of firms confidence to take on more staff, especially in Germany, Spain and Italy," said Williamson.
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Perhaps this Rangers team is poised to do the exact opposite of last year's team, in other words: ride a hot start to the playoffs after a solid but unspectacular second half.
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The rose 8.4 percent through the period — unspectacular and below trend, to be sure, but still higher — and economic growth continued to muddle along much the same as it has throughout the recovery.
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The film version is a solid if unspectacular thriller, one that hinges on a time-bending whodunit that's twisty, to be sure, but whose payoff falls well short of the ride getting there.
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Among Mr. Trump's advisers, Mr. Pence is seen as the lowest-risk option: a stolid if unspectacular choice, helpful for locking up conservative votes and perhaps boosting Mr. Trump's appeal across the Midwest.
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Ingles was his usual solid if unspectacular self through the first three games, but he lit the Clippers up in Game 4, helping set the stage for Joe Johnson's heroics down the stretch.
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As the nation heads toward a presidential election, the question is whether voters will view steady but unspectacular growth as a sign that President Trump's handling of the economy has succeeded or stumbled.
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With an unspectacular 16-11 record, Seery is one of those fighters whose win-loss ratio is out of sync with his abilities and is now seeking his fourth victory in the UFC's Octagon.
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This is an impressively unspectacular fact, until you consider that this allows you to graft any pentasyllabic phrase of your choosing onto that line and sing it to the tune of the Beatles song.
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"We do think growth is running at an unspectacular 1.5 percent and inflation is moving from 1.5 percent to 2 percent," said Mark Lindbloom, portfolio manager at Western Asset Management Co in Pasadena, California.
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In some scenarios of how the 2020 election breaks, such a solid but unspectacular showing could be enough for the former vice president to win the Democratic nomination and maybe even the White House.
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Orton has been working a program with Bray Wyatt for several months, and solid but unspectacular matches have turned into an alliance, with Orton joining the Wyatt Family, Bray's creepy cult of castoffs and weirdos.
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With apps like Uber making it harder and harder for taxi drivers in China to make a decent wage, getting a mega-cheap, perhaps unspectacular but plentiful feed is a priority for most punters here.
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With Kershaw out of the game after five solid, but unspectacular, innings, the Dodgers turned the game over to their stout relief corps, and over the next four innings it didn't allow a base runner.
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In contrast to my usual approach to photography — selecting single images from shooting done far away from home — the photos from Sunset Park made me more inclined to consider unspectacular images part of the work.
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While his nine-year riding career was unspectacular, Portal's deep knowledge of the peloton saw him become one of the most astute Tour tacticians, with Team Sky's riders rarely caught by surprise out on the road.
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By the 32-year-old's own admission it was an unspectacular result with which to bring down the curtain on a grand prix career that once promised much but ultimately failed to deliver the big prizes.
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"In addition, while we expect the on-track but unspectacular recovery to continue, the economic architecture remains particularly vulnerable: many structural challenges are pending and low resilience to external shocks remains the major source of weakness."
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's economy likely expanded by 250% in the third quarter, according to a Reuters poll of economists, consolidating a steady, if unspectacular, pace of growth ahead of an anticipated upswing into the year end.
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Then Ledecka, drawn 26th, began her run — unspectacular at first but gathering pace and drawing a roaring crescendo from the crowd as she ripped up the lower half of the course to usurp the shell-shocked Veith.
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With each passing season, Wall's lackadaisical defensive effort and unspectacular jump shot become more troublesome, and it's sadly not that hard to envision a day very soon when his first step no longer strikes like an angry rattlesnake.
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Twelve years after first getting the better of Nadal on the All England Club lawns — since when his career has trundled along in unspectacular fashion — 26th seed Muller stood firm in 218-minute fifth set of interminable tension.
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Amy KlobucharAmy Jean KlobucharBiden looks to shore up lead in S.C. The Hill's Campaign Report: Gloves off in South Carolina Lawmakers grill Ticketmaster, StubHub execs over online ticketing MORE (D-Minn.) Klobuchar had another solid but unspectacular night.
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The more wheeling and dealing you do, trading knowns for unknowns—even if they're seemingly safe bets like Swanson—the more chances you have to take your unspectacular but solid starter and turn him into a spectacular flameout.
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He birdied the final hole of a largely unspectacular final round to sneak into a three-way playoff on Monday at the Zurich Classic, then beat Jamie Lovemark on the second extra hole for his first PGA Tour triumph.
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At least since the days of Andy Warhol, the idea of not having wide public acclaim was regarded by some as a sign of failure, of possessing a small ambition, of having been deemed unspectacular or considered an elitist.
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Wage growth has been solid if unspectacular, and May retail sales were strong, reflecting sunny weather, a royal wedding and a partial easing of the inflation pressure that has squeezed British consumer demand since June 2016's Brexit vote.
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O/U: 433 ABOUT THE CHIEFS (100.5-224): Kansas City's offense has been unspectacular, but Smith takes care of the ball and running back Spencer Ware has emerged as a major weapon, ranking third in the NFL in scrimmage yards.
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The handheld cinematography that fills most of the film is a visually unspectacular means of chronicling these happenings, and Kwon's tendency to tell the camera exactly what the band is doing instead of simply showing it drags the story on.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Investors sound optimistic about a breakout for the world economy next year, but for all the talk of huge tax cuts from the incoming U.S. presidency of Donald Trump, the economic outlook looks similar to 2016: uneven and unspectacular.
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In a research note titled "the dragon stirs," Goldman Sachs analysts said the Chinese economy appears to be accelerating again, and that the market will take comfort even from unspectacular growth if it can be achieved with less reliance on debt.
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"The U.S. recovery looks set to continue but the pace is expected to be unspectacular," noted Janet Henry, global chief economist at HSBC, who believes the U.S. Federal Reserve will have to scale back the policy tightening it has in mind.
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The native of France, who signed a four-year, $64-million deal with the Wizards this offseason, recorded one point, one rebound, one block and one steal in 14 unspectacular minutes, but he figures to help solidify the interior going forward.
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But the bloc's No. 2 economy, France, will likely post a stable, if unspectacular, 1.4 percent growth this year, while Italy will continue the listless recovery in progress since it emerged from a three-year recession at the start of 2015.
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But a word for Jeff Jarrett, amidst all of the unspectacular solidity, the nepotism, and the involvement in possible pyramid schemes: Never has anyone been as much of a kindred spirit of Vince McMahon's carny heart as Double J Jeff Jarrett.
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The gross domestic product — the total output of goods and services produced in the United States — grew at a decent if unspectacular 2.1% annual rate in the April-June quarter, down from a 3.1% pace in the January-March period.
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But don't let its unspectacular rollout or its throwback design fool you: Apple knows exactly what it's doing with the $123 iPhone SE. It's a shiny little fishing lure for first-time iPhone buyers or people who feel overdue for an upgrade.
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But don't let its unspectacular rollout or its throwback design fool you: Apple knows exactly what it's doing with the $399 iPhone SE. It's a shiny little fishing lure for first-time iPhone buyers or people who feel overdue for an upgrade.
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Violent crime has fallen by more than half over the past 20 years, the economy is growing at a steady, unspectacular rate, illegal border crossings are at a low level, there are signs of racial progress for those who want to see them.
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The best example is the player who scored the crucial second goal in Cardiff, the one that broke Juventus's spirit and drained its resolve: Casemiro, a generally unspectacular Brazilian defensive midfielder, but the sort beloved of coaches searching for balance on a team.
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RIC=BRGDP%2150DEC I BRASILIA, Nov 25.00 (Reuters) - Brazil's economy likely expanded by 250% in the third quarter, according to a Reuters poll of economists, consolidating a steady, if unspectacular, pace of growth ahead of an anticipated upswing into the year end.
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The turnaround was completed as unspectacular weekly U.S. jobs figures hobbled the dollar ahead of non-farm payrolls data on Friday and left sterling at $1.2432, up 20163 percent and on course for its best day against the U.S. currency since the start of December.
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Coached by long-time friend and SBG Ireland teammate Conor McGregor, Lobov reached the final of the series—putting paid to his unspectacular record of 11-10-13 (1 NC) by handily dealing with his three opponents in the TUF house with knockout victories.
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And now, the Senate battle Contrasting with Obama's theatrics, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, in his unspectacular style, put on a show of quiet defiance to stiffen the spine of his troops in swing state re-election contests who may not relish the fight ahead.
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Richard Vinen concludes his book, easily the very best of the newly published ones being considered here, with this observation: few 68ers became hippies on communes, terrorists, government ministers or multimillionaires but the majority had unspectacular careers that often involved a degree of self-sacrifice.
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Labour outperformed expectations in last year's general election under its left-wing leader, Jeremy Corbyn, but the results from the elections on Thursday were unspectacular, and one lawmaker, Chuka Umunna, called for an inquiry into the party's failure to exploit the government's recent problems.
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The switch to Peterman shocked many considering Buffalo's recent cold streak had largely been caused by the team's defense struggling to stop the run, rather than any issues with Taylor, who has been a solid, though unspectacular, starting quarterback for the last three seasons.
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Some of that excitement faded over the years, clouded by unspectacular results, a frustrating quest for a series championship that never arrived and, yes, his grieving over the death of his father — all of it fogged up by partying and a lack of focus.
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The network is pretty obviously in a rebuilding phase, but you can sort of see a way it could keep up its momentum next season, thanks to solid if unspectacular shows like Lethal Weapon and promising-in-theory performers like the comedy The Mick.
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"September's steady but unspectacular employment numbers suggest that the combination of tight labor markets, falling profits and higher wages may slow job growth in the coming months, but the news is not all negative," Brian Schaitkin, senior economist at The Conference Board, said in a statement.
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Her prose style and the way she tells stories seem unspectacular at first — a series of genuinely odd observations on the world, conducted by unhappy people — but through the strength of her emotional accuracy and an idiosyncratic, often profound sense of humor she creates absorbing entrapments.
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But, uh, the people who still watch live TV tilt toward the older end of the age spectrum, and without major events (even the Grammys struggled slightly in the ratings this year), CBS's reliance on massively watched scripted shows with solid but unspectacular demo ratings became more apparent.
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Oh, and there's also Nate Silver's assessment that there are just 23,22 hockey fans in Vegas, a number that can certainly be quibbled with, but isn't helped by the fact that the local minor-league hockey team went out of business last year after 2500 seasons of unspectacular attendance.
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Britain's economy recorded solid but unspectacular growth in the second quarter of 2018 after unusually heavy snow weakened demand in the first three months of the year, and earlier this month the Bank of England raised interest rates for only the second time in more than a decade.
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Traders might also be feeling the muscle memory of 25, when the S&P 500 was up a good but unspectacular 8.3 percent into the third week of August before accelerating to surge another 15 percent over the next five months — culminating in the peak at 2,782 on Jan. 26.
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On this week's episode we discuss why Snapchat is still committed to making hardware despite an unspectacular first attempt, why Arielle should probably replace Evan Spiegel as Snap's CEO, and what the ephemerality of photos in 24-hour "stories" will mean for people who someday might want those snaps and grams for posterity.
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Otherwise, the impressive overall advance was generated by unspectacular increases across virtually every part of the economy (the only noteworthy category to post a decline was temp agency employees, which is probably yet another confirmation of tightness in labor markets, as firms are converting their temp workers to permanent positions so as not to risk losing them).
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I've never seen a moth snowstorm, but McCarthy's book reminded me again and again of the seemingly unspectacular profusion that I took for granted as a child: from the constant flapping of moths against the windows of our cottage at night to regular stops on long car journeys to clean the insect debris from the windshield.
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In the first heavyweight title fight to be held in the Middle East, Joshua toyed with an out-of-shape Andy Ruiz Jr. over 12 unspectacular rounds to win a unanimous points decision, reclaiming the World Boxing Association, World Boxing Organization and International Boxing Federation belts and avenging a stunning upset by his Mexican-American opponent six months ago.
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He has not played a single minute in Sweden's remarkable run to this point, not when the national team eliminated the Netherlands in qualifying; Italy in a playoff; Germany, the reigning champion, in the group stages in Russia; and now Switzerland, in an industrious, if unspectacular, round-of-16 game on Tuesday, thanks to a deflected strike from Emil Forsberg.
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Attacks in Europe haven't reached that stage yet, but it's not hard to see it happening: How many more killings until they stop making the front page of the newspapers, until spectacularized violence becomes as unspectacular as car accidents, or homelessness, or any of the other things that tear away hundreds of lives without anyone feeling the need to do anything about it?
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Telltale Games has announced three new titles for 2017 into 2018: a second season of Batman, subtitled The Enemy Within; the final season of The Walking Dead; and, most excitingly for me, a sequel to 2013/2014's terrific Fables comic adaptation, The Wolf Among Us. Batman begins (ha, ha) on August 8th, and will roll across five parts, much like its decent-if-unspectacular predecessor.
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As a middle reliever splitting time between the majors and minor leagues across 2316 and 2413, Brice posted unspectacular numbers: a 2241-2302 record and a 21.13 E.R.A. But he had reason to be optimistic entering what he thought would be his third season with the Reds: He appeared to have mastered his control problems and had shown an ability to induce ground balls.
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And, on the right, the unspectacular houses and office buildings and factories of Bayonne, like foothills to the distant range of Manhattan, with its dim, heart-quickening skyline, including the World Trade Center and the new, obnoxious rich-persons' high-luxury spike of an apartment building farther uptown, and maybe also the thirty-second floor of the estimable Carlyle Hotel, from which O. H. Ammann used to look out on his creations.
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