unassumed

Example Sentences

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In the finished film Rogers' unassumed self-consciousness helps to make sharper his portrait of an Oklahoma oil man who takes his family to Paris to get background.

From Time Magazine Archive

Her dark eyes opened wide in unassumed surprise.

From The Crack of Doom by Cromie, Robert

Again and again she had this feeling when she was with him—an uneasy intuition that his good humour was not entirely unassumed, that he was concealing a dangerous weapon beneath his offensive familiarity.

From One Man in His Time by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson

His quiet unassumed familiarity with every museum and library on the Continent astonishes even the most erudite Teuton. 

From Masques & Phases by Ross, Robert

By this I was most thoroughly a mill-girl in appearance, at least; my clothes were white with cotton, my hair far from tidy; fatigue and listlessness unassumed were in my attitude.

From The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls by Vorst, Marie Van