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unpretentious
1. While walking to the post office in the Woodlawn section of the Bronx the other day, I was struck by the quaintness of an old, working class neighborhood where generations of blue collar men and women married, raised (large) families in unpretentious homes, worked and played, lived and died
2. sought him out in his unpretentious home to hear him
3. splendid edifice to take the place of the previously unpretentious building, at the same time extending the boundaries of the Temple mount
4. She found James to be every bit as easy-going and unpretentious as Rick
5. Her shoes, humble and unpretentious, jingled continuously her presence throughout the residence and at all hours
6. This is simple, unpretentious home cooking but very satisfying, healthy and easy
7. 8 He was modest and undramatic, a daily server, an unpretentious worker, seeking no special reward when he once grasped something of the real meaning of the kingdom
8. Sonorous birdsong is all there is to be heard, a poetry of twittering, unpretentious stanzas, a ballad, a littany, a war against silence
9. Hirohito’s life that he was taken aback by the friendly and unpretentious greeting he received in Europe, moving him to write to his brother Chichibu that he discovered freeedom for the first time in England
10. Their individualism manifests as a naive intellectual curiosity which inspires others with its unpretentious open-mindedness
11. He did not intimidate by his professional standing because he was totally unpretentious and uncultured
12. Not your beauty though she also is beautiful but the unpretentious naturalness
13. But they didn’t, because perhaps they couldn’t, because perhaps Christ really didn’t come in that way, but instead, came in His own unassuming, unpretentious, unique, loving, gentle, humble, special, but yet divine and revolutionary, radical, sophisticated, complex and mysterious way
14. The Carolis were so rich they loaned money to kings, but Buonaventura was amiable and unpretentious – though people said that in business he could be implacably hard
15. Mr Bloom and Stephen entered the cabman's shelter, an unpretentious wooden structure, where, prior to then, he had rarely if ever been before, the former having previously whispered to the latter a few hints anent the keeper of it said to be the once famous Skin-the-Goat Fitzharris, the invincible, though he could not vouch for the actual facts which quite possibly there was not one vestige of truth in
16. It appeared an unpretentious building, made of the materials used in the humblest dwellings, glorifying nobody
17. Once inside, he was surprised to note that it was less formal than he’d expected – a clean, unpretentious place with white tables and a million-dollar view
18. The palace was an unpretentious stone building with a hall and chapel on the ground floor and a series of offices and private apartments upstairs
19. The tinge of unpretentious, inoffensive vulgarity in Mrs
20. Crescent Heights was a blue-collar community with Highway 1 whizzing between the unpretentious homes and their view of the bay
21. Compared to the others, he had a quiet, unpretentious way of standing, but just at that moment, Grace resented it
22. By paying nearly double fare a passenger might secure a room for himself, but the room given him did not compare well even with that of small and unpretentious modern steamers
23. His first wife, who was of a humble family, left a daughter as unpretentious as herself
24. For many years there stood in a side street in Kiel an unpretentious old frame house which had a forbidding, almost sinister appearance, with its old-fashioned balcony and its overhanging upper stories
25. The book is written in a natural, unpretentious, flowing style, and the material is skillfully handled so as to concentrate the attention and stimulate the imagination