Tossing out the well-made play with a cast-iron plot, he substituted a fluid, unemphatic, uneventful picture of lifethe life of a fiberless leisure-class Russian society.
The sequel to the much loved novel Plainsong is spare and unemphatic sometimes to a fault The House That Jack Built (ArtsBooks).
The style and structure of this book are strange, unemphatic, as if Cather had simply laid the scenes side by side in a tapestry.