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In his review, Joseph Horowitz called the book “as honest and unassuming as Stokowski was evasive and flamboyant.”

Quiet, unassuming, even shy, particularly in public, McSweeney is known for being obsessed by winning, constantly fearful of complacency and ever aware of Labour’s track record of losing far more often than it wins.

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Cyber-scam operations have mushroomed across Southeast Asia -- often operating from unassuming office blocks or warehouses, where con artists target marks living on the other side of the world.

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Yet from their unassuming beginnings, they became unlikely architects of a movement.

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Told with an unassuming, gentle simplicity that grows into an accumulating emotional power, the film manages to feel very small and specific while also vast and expansive.

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