unobtrusiveness

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With all of this in play, not to mention a flood of electric live performances and an extraordinary tribute to Quincy Jones, unobtrusiveness would be the safe move for a host in Noah’s position.

From Salon • Feb. 3, 2025

In-vehicle sensor systems are kept simple and compact by minimizing complex wiring, limiting the size of the sensing units, and limiting the number of sensors in a vehicle to support the unobtrusiveness of in-vehicle sensors.

From Science Daily • Feb. 29, 2024

The director, Phyllis Nagy, making her feature film debut, has embraced unobtrusiveness as a style, perhaps to soft-pedal the material.

From New York Times • Oct. 27, 2022

He told me that, because of the machine’s unobtrusiveness, the subjects he’s hired to photograph sometimes think he’s an assistant: “They are, like, ‘When is the actual photographer and the camera coming?’

From The New Yorker • Jul. 21, 2019

From a Bombay gentleman who was his fellow-traveler to India a little anecdote has casually come to our knowledge illustrating the unobtrusiveness of Livingstone--his dislike to be made a lion of.

From The Personal Life of David Livingstone by Blaikie, William Garden