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

She confessed, however, with unassumed candour, that the immediate descendants of her sister were gracefully proficient in the art.

From The Mirror of Kong Ho by Bramah, Ernest

The terrified householders threw open their doors with unassumed alacrity.

From The Blue Lights A Detective Story by Kummer, Frederic Arnold

“I haven’t laughed from the heart in a very 25 long time,” he said, returning to his former gravity, this time unassumed.

From The Place of Honeymoons by Keller, Arthur Ignatius