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

But our Solicitor-General rose to his legs a happy man, with all that grace of motion, that easy slowness, that unassumed confidence which belongs to the ordinary doings of our familiar life.

From Lady Anna by Trollope, Anthony

They would not let me feel that I was a stranger, and set me at my ease in a moment with a warmth which was evidently unassumed.

From The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses by Froude, James Anthony

The vicomte could see perfectly well that Victor's gaiety was natural and unassumed; that the past held him but loosely, since this past held the vision of an ax.

From The Grey Cloak by Peirce, Thomas Mitchell

Her tone almost startled him, its unassumed cheerfulness was so unlooked for.

From The Wings of the Morning by Tracy, Louis