The tone throughout is deliberately discursive and undramatic. Andrew Lowry in "Total Film" called it "well-intentioned but fairly undramatic". However, some have dismissed it for being undramatic or as pseudo-mystical claptrap. Perhaps HIV has fallen into the traditional categories of being impersonal, undramatic, "old" news. Related to this, asserts Hazlitt, is the undramatic nature of Wordsworth's own poetry. Bosley Crowther called it "flat" and "undramatic" in "The New York Times". Its structure, in which Falstaff and Hal barely meet, can be criticised as undramatic. The meteor split just before the otherwise undramatic impact and two pieces were recovered. His style was formal, clear, and undramatic. The work is in five-part polyphony, which was considered undramatic at the time. Kahn accordingly made the building's exterior relatively undramatic, suitable for a small New England town.