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

He asked Margaret to show him her sketches and looked at them with unassumed interest.

From The Magician by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)

"I have no pretension to abilities like yours, Mr. Massingbred," said Scanlan, with unassumed modesty.

From The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II) by Lever, Charles James

But she laughed at them with mirth that was so evidently unassumed that they blushed to their ears.

From The Winds of the World by Mundy, Talbot

That they were clever she did not doubt; they had for one thing his own air of unassumed ease, and she could not but feel they had some claim to literary art.

From Weighed and Wanting by MacDonald, George