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

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

Embeddables will be sitting so close to us that the right balance between unobtrusiveness and affordance will have to be found.

From Forbes • Mar. 31, 2014

Their greatest charm is their unobtrusiveness, just as the charm and distinguishing mark of a well-dressed person is that the dress is not striking or obtrusive.

From Letters to a Daughter and A Little Sermon to School Girls by Starrett, Helen Ekin