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unassumingly



ADVERB
quietly
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The two performances, by Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall, are unassumingly superb, and the film serves as a uniquely touching tribute to Hujar, who died of AIDS-related complications at age 53 in 1987.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025

For nearly five decades, the record-breaking painting unassumingly adorned the walls of a Norwegian hospital, overlooked and undervalued.

From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2025

Instead, the film depicts people grappling with the untidiness of their emotions through Song’s unassumingly poetic dialogue and luminous imagery.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2023

Lucas is gay, and one of the strengths of Honoré’s film is how unassumingly the character’s queerness is depicted.

From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2023

He is thoroughly dignified, and yet his manners are so unassumingly easy that one hardly notices them.

From The Mountains of Oregon by William Gladstone Steel




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