unassumingly

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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

Is that one in the corner, unassumingly spinning its web, venomous?

From New York Times • Aug. 25, 2022

Taking place during a closed city council meeting in mythical Big Cherry in Almost Anystate, U.S.A., this sterling comedy-drama starts in unassumingly sedate fashion.

From Washington Post • Apr. 18, 2022

The new doormat expressed Mrs. Haim's sole and characteristic criticism of the organism into which she had so unassumingly entered.

From The Roll-Call by Bennett, Arnold