1. The film is sporadically hilarious in a chilly, unemphatic way. 2. A deeply reflective man, Moses is at once unemphatic and unequivocal. 3. Eastwood says in his quiet, unemphatic voice. 4. He's circumspect, unemphatic , composed. 5. Cassavetes films it all in a straightforward, unemphatic manner that spotlights performance and character. 6. He makes an art of the unemphatic . 7. The look and, more important, the tenor of the times is captured in unemphatic but thorough detail. 8. This is a series in which Sugimoto's evenhanded and unemphatic way with the camera takes us halfway to hypnosis. 9. Friedrich's unemphatic image draws us back to that distant but all-important puddle at 4, 000 feet above sea level. 10. Mr . Maxwell's own writing _ fastidious, unemphatic , carefully observed _ long ago earned him a place alongside such celebrated names.