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

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

"Oh, yes," assented Kirkwood, with a nonchalance not entirely unassumed.

From The Black Bag by Vance, Louis Joseph

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

From Masques & Phases by Ross, Robert

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