How To Use Undemonstrative In A Sentence

  • He worked for a while in fashion photography, but his shy and undemonstrative personality was not suited to this world, and he concentrated more on very mundane subjects such as plumbing fixtures.
  • These days, after a handshake with this undemonstrative, measured, charming man, you might have a quick check that your arm is still affixed.
  • However, on Wednesday night the normally undemonstrative boss was obviously delighted with the result.
  • Certainly, it is undemonstrative in its perfection; but that very perfection is a quality we should treasure.
  • Socially he was undemonstrative, but he had a dry and perceptive wit, which was a source of considerable amusement to his colleagues and friends.
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  • This equestrian boss nowadays is no longer already in those days that undemonstrative " pony elder brother ".
  • He was the most undemonstrative of cricketers.
  • Normally undemonstrative, Murasaki flung her arms about her father and kissed him soundly.
  • Undemonstrative, quick-witted, alert and intelligent: he has it all.
  • a phlegmatic...and certainly undemonstrative man
  • Their song is not overly musical but has a comforting, undemonstrative British garden nature, not gaudy or showy in any way.
  • She was a practical, unsentimental woman: they gave each other tranquil, undemonstrative support. IN LOVE AND WAR
  • He was an undemonstrative man, substantial.
  • His leading men are two teenage boys who are so undemonstrative as to be almost catatonic.
  • Her undemonstrative manner and sober-coloured clothes, all subtle browns and beiges, do not turn heads at our meeting place, a hotel tucked away in a sandy cove in Jersey, where one of the key scenes of Being Julia is being filmed.
  • Lady Ainslie is an undemonstrative woman who rarely touches even her own son.
  • The Queen is often berated for her old-fashioned image and reserved, undemonstrative approach.
  • Another dancer may be more reserved and hardly smile at all, being more undemonstrative and formal.
  • Ever graceful, serene and undemonstrative and always truthful to Mozart her deft passage work, sensitive phrasing and attention to detail showed her to be a true artist.
  • They are classically English: not modest exactly - hardly that - but undemonstrative, reticent, resolutely undramatic.
  • Undemonstrative, quick-witted, alert and intelligent: he has it all.
  • A modest, undemonstrative fellow, Shrubb was visibly moved as the crowd ignored the joyless Glasgow weather and offered him a spine-tingling welcome.
  • Lady Ainslie is an undemonstrative woman who rarely touches even her own son.
  • I suppose in our undemonstrative way we most commonly describe the condition as a moment of ‘peace and quiet’.
  • Mr Keston, a neat, undemonstrative figure in his blue shirt, dark blue jacket, tie and spectacles, will not be taking a radical brush to the Theatre Royal, where any cobwebs have been removed over the past decade.
  • He is undemonstrative, self-controlled and, in his radio and TV interviews, comes across as a man of sweet reason while answering questions in a deep, well-modulated voice.
  • He is well-known for his quiet, undemonstrative approach to a sport which has served him well since he took over from his father John in 1978.
  • There was no mistaking the affection between them, a quiet, undemonstrative pleasure in one another's company. TESTIMONIES
  • The switch to ready-made clothing and the business suit has sometimes made middle-class men seem "inexpressive", "anonymous", and " undemonstrative ".
  • His leading men are two teenage boys who are so undemonstrative as to be almost catatonic.
  • So we marked our anniversary, of course we did, but we did so in the quiet, undemonstrative, mutually supportive way we tend to do things like that.
  • Increasingly she withdrew from her children, becoming “uncommunicative,” “undemonstrative” and “unaffectionate” toward them in a way that she was not with her animals.111 Storyteller
  • She even laid aside her usual quiet undemonstrativeness, and petted and made much of me, though she laughed a little at what she called my solemn face. Esther : a book for girls
  • The switch to ready-made clothing and the business suit has sometimes made middle-class men seem "inexpressive", "anonymous", and " undemonstrative ".
  • Others will view their emotional control as hard and unfeeling, regarding them as unresponsive to their moods and undemonstrative in romantic affairs.
  • Both fell in love with a man who had suffered a lonely upbringing by distant and undemonstrative parents.
  • Though kind enough in her way, she was an undemonstrative woman and it had never occurred to her that he was starved of love. THE GOSPEL MAKERS
  • The undemonstrative Guénolés hugging one another with a fierce and unrestrained passion. COASTLINERS

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