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Usage examples of undemonstrative.

Hudlars were said to be very undemonstrative beings, at least in public.

The people in the mine, both young and old, had been talkative but undemonstrative, and he had thought that his presence among them was being tolerated and nothing more.

I have often seen women weeping in an undemonstrative manner at some slab of oleo-margarine sentiment in the theatre.

Being taciturn and undemonstrative, she stood at the door, looking with as pleased a countenance as so sad a portrait could wear upon the young gentleman.

When I was in college, my father, a gruff undemonstrative man, died of a stroke on a ladder one Saturday afternoon while painting the house.

This outbreak of a passionate sense of injury in a man habitually so undemonstrative, so little disposed to call attention to himself, had in it something at once of the touching and the terrible.

In the few scraps of time he grudgingly allotted to his daughter, he was coldly correct and stiffly formaleven for his tightly controlled and undemonstrative race.

Even undemonstrative old Lord Alexandros allowed himself a broad smile of satisfaction at this unqualified success of his brainchild.

They were already assembled, looking much as the men on the baily, except for the undemonstrative Wolf-Brother and Gil MacDonald.

He was quiet and undemonstrative, without looking, as it were, insulated against shocks and foreign substances.

All undemonstrative people, they shook hands much as if they had parted only a week ago.

When the verse was repeated by the group, the usually undemonstrative Wymez turned red at the gentle jab.

Whatever it was, the tribe would accomplish it in their undemonstrative way.

Claudine abruptly realized she needed the expertise of this soft-spoken, undemonstrative man who, from photographs alone, had provided enough to back most of her early impressions.

Sandanato had been formal, proper, undemonstrative, such a contrast to the vibrant cardinal who had been standing beside the black limo, face to the sunshine, already giving Higgins an earful, when the monsignor had brought her out to the street.