What is "unassuming"

Usage examples of "unassuming".

Another bit of luck was that Gretchen Scheffler -- possibly I had asked her to do so -- tailored me a suit which, cut in the unassuming, electively affinitive style of the early nineteenth century, still conjures up the spirit of Goethe in my album, bearing witness to the two souls in my breast, and enables me, with but a single drum, to be in St.

Decker followed him up the stone walkway to an unassuming two-story brick house similar to those in Boro Park.

This, indeed, was the normal aspect it presented, for Portia found it easier to scribble off her correspondence at an unassuming white--enamel-painted table, whereon her buvard, in old-stamped leather, found its resting-place.

Hole, the normally unassuming and fiercely independent towns on the southernmost lake, Redwaters, had boldly demanded compensation from Bryn Shander and Termalaine.

In the computer age, steganography has gone digital, with messages hidden in the same zeroes and ones that are used to construct otherwise unassuming images or text.

Men liked a girl to be a bit helpless about things like unblocking sinks and changing electrical plugs and not knowing which bus to catch, but Chrissy could do all those things without fuss, taking them for granted in the nicest, most unassuming way, which probably was why the few men of her acquaintance, while liking her, tended to ask her advice and then go out with some feather- witted blonde.

A cross-eyed Jersey-Guernsey cross -- runty, unassuming, and as unpretty as her father -- yet this wallflower was to be the first to clear Abdul of the charge of Flagrant Ferdinandeering.

The latter was a quiet, unassuming girl who was by way of being secretary and lady-help to Mrs.

The first organs she bestows upon children coming into the world, are adapted to the nearest immediate condition of the creature, which, unassuming and artless, makes use of them in the readiest way for its present purposes.

You are looking past a forest toward the clubhouse of the Royal Dornoch Golf Club, an unassuming edifice where no doubt golfers are gathering.

We have so many good painters, sensitive, discriminating men who paint the world as an intelligent, discriminating, unassuming old gentleman sees it.

Elderly presbyters bowed their heads respectfully as Hugh passed, and he paused to greet them with such unassuming sincerity that it was impossible to fault him for pride or self-aggrandizement.

Men liked a girl to be a bit helpless about things like unblocking sinks and changing electrical plugs and not knowing which bus to catch, but Chrissy could do all those things without fuss, taking them for granted in the nicest, most unassuming way, which probably was why the few men of her acquaintance, while liking her, tended to ask her advice and then go out with some feather- witted blonde.

Sajaki wore unassuming shipboard clothes devoid of rank or ornamentation, emphasising the lightness of his build.

Nancia had never envisioned herself discussing something so personal with anybody, let alone a high ranking army officer, but something about General Questar-Benn's unassuming manner made intimate 104 Asms McCaffrey & Margaret Ball talk unthreatening and easy.