But it was by his Nouveaux Dialogues des morts (1683) that Fontenelle established a genuine claim to high literary rank; and that claim was enhanced three years later by the appearance of the Entretiens sur la pluralite des mondes (1686), a work which was among the very first to illustrate the possibility of being scientific without being either uninteresting or unintelligible to the ordinary reader.
This kind of small-talk invites uninteresting answers.
The exterior is uninteresting, and the church lost both atrium and apse in the 16th century.
She went quickly over uninteresting details, and never nagged me with questions to see if I remembered the day-before-yesterday's lesson.
He deletes what strikes him as irrelevant, or tedious, or uninteresting to his readers.
