How To Use Unobtrusive In A Sentence

It's not often you can eat the utensils, and the friendly, unobtrusive service saw to it we never wanted for extra injera, so we were pleased. - 1 / 2
Google says they will be, quote, "unobtrusive" -- uh-huh, likely story -- and will appear at the bottom of some of the videos for 10 seconds. CNN Transcript Aug 22, 2007
The background music is played at an unobtrusive level and there is little or no traffic noise to disturb you.
They will try to make sure everything is almost neurotically unobtrusive, bridezilla in reverse. Times, Sunday Times
Tiny rustic villages, with churches humble and unobtrusive, and prominent calvaries, are passed one after the other. Normandy, Illustrated, Complete

The birds were constantly on the move, their quiet and unobtrusive progress hiding very considerable speed.
His next sentence unobtrusively removed an argument that might have been used against me in the leadership contest.
The decor is tasteful and unobtrusive without being bland and it is spiced up by some great artworks and top-notch fixtures and fittings. The Sun
He must find some place where, like a chameleon, he could merge unobtrusively into the background until he could contact Jerrold. TANK OF SERPENTS
Of course, this naturalness is an illusion (a transcript of thought and conversation would yield mostly a slop of imprecision and repetition), but O'Nan's fingerprints are unobtrusive. A Close Read
This song started off sounding rather wistful and unobtrusive, but then grew into a psychedelic swirl of beats, voice and guitar that became completely captivating.
They're everywhere these birds, but they rather specialise in unobtrusiveness. Times, Sunday Times
Forsaking the oeuvres of boy bands, their coverage has so far been saturated with unobtrusively tuneful ambient dance music.
For years, he was a placid, unobtrusive student of his, but he's emerged from the long shadow cast by his mentor.
There is unanimity among advertisers and producers that advertising of this kind needs to be as unobtrusive as possible.
He was some years younger than Marsden, and dressed soberly but in the very height of fashion, his lightly starched collar reaching to his ears, and a white waistcoat picked out with black calling unobtrusive attention to the slenderness of his waist. Hornblower And The Crisis
Telephone reservation clerks were provided with feedback on their verbal behaviors obtained from unobtrusive monitoring of their telephone calls.
It was a remarkably idle and unobtrusive shop and yet money flowed into it without stint, mysteriously and unostentatiously, the conduits of its flow being certain modest and retiring Arab visitors in long brown or white _haiks_, with check cotton head-dresses girt with ropes of camel-hair, who collogued with the honest tradesman and departed as silently and unobtrusively as they came .... Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life
I waited, sitting as quietly and unobtrusively as possible on the low backless benches in front of the ground-floor lobby windows.
If the author convenes religious beliefs in inoffensive and unobtrusive manner (King did this in “The Stand” and it was perfectly digestible) or turn it in a underlying message, that's perfectly fine with me - but don’t drop it fervently right on top of my head. Glen E. Page - The Last Plague (book review)
With similar unobtrusiveness, it yesterday turned in a set of record first-half results. Times, Sunday Times
The look is at once handsome and unobtrusive, which is particularly useful when the speakers flank a video screen. Home Theater RSS Feed
A notable feature of the temple was the unobtrusiveness of its entrances.
William Ivey Long's dress for Miss Gien is a simple, beige, loose-fitting second skin; Larry Moss has directed with similar unobtrusiveness.
Throughout the meal our waiters were unobtrusive and efficient.
She'd found a nice, unobtrusive little cubbyhole up in the rafters that she thought might have been overlooked. T2: INFILTRATOR
They brighten the streets and fasten the scenery together in the unobtrusive manner of true cultural icons.
She could move the furniture just a few inches, he probably wouldn't even notice, to provide unobtrusive supports so that she needn't take too quickly to sticks and callipers. She Closed Her Eyes
Not sharp and vivid like that of her father, but dim and nebulous was the picture she shaped of her mother — a saint's head in an aureole of sweetness and goodness and meekness, and withal, shot through with a hint of reposeful determination, of will, stubborn and unobtrusive, that in life had expressed itself mainly in resignation. Jack London's Story - Moon Face: Planchette pg 3 of 3
Fortunately, individual lions can be dependably identified in an unobtrusive manner.
He ranks high among the great detectives of fiction but does so unobtrusively, disdaining self-advertisement.
The quiet, unobtrusive Scot has gone about his task of having the course in pristine condition.
As mentioned before, the graphics are nothing to write home about, but at least they're unobtrusive, which is in marked contrast to the music, which is quite catchy at first but becomes stressful after playing more than ten minutes. Gamezebo: Casual Game Reviews, Previews, Cheats, Tips, Forums, Free Games, and More
That the tautness among these four grows steadily throughout the play, however, renders the crisis static and unobtrusive, and in this light the play's structure invites comparison to Chekhovian dramaturgy.
The news was placed in an unobtrusive corner of a local newspaper.
She's a quiet unobtrusive student.
The mine would be relatively unobtrusive because its products would be piped away underground for processing, it added. Times, Sunday Times
Owen also provides plenty of poignancy, and does so with admirable unobtrusiveness.
The speaker system played an unobtrusive drumming music that was perfectly suited for the food and a nice change from the normal quiet interspersed with chatter that occurs in most of the plaza restaurants.
messengers were moving unobtrusively over the jet-black mountain ranges, bearing confidential tidings from sheikhdom to sheikhdom
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Typically then he sat almost unobtrusively in a crowded dressingroom and when asked for comment was at pains to stress that the victory was down to a team effort.
For occasions where you want to carry stuff on your person more unobtrusively, go for the sewn up pocket option.
The coffee-table is glass, to be as unobtrusive as possible.
Fuel cell vehicles were everywhere, some exotic and others covered with unobtrusive shells that could have just rolled off a production line.
The unobtrusive dialect and horrifying irony here make this one of Nelson's best lyrics.
Several days afterward, when the world press had ceased front-paging the Soviet election, Moscow officials unobtrusively announced that 1,334,124 votes were ‘scratched ‘- that is, the name of the Stalinist candidate was struck out by voters.’
When I arrived a few young women were tucking into some very well presented fare, as music played unobtrusively in the background.
So was Hochberg, with a manner parents describe as unobtrusive and comforting. Chicagotribune.com -
The cheeses, including the housemade mozzarella, can be kindly described as unobtrusive, and the cold cuts aren't what today's epicures would call artisanal, but the satisfying, neatly constructed whole is invariably greater than the sum of its parts. Undefined
Tucked away unobtrusively in an angle of the river wall, it was also protected by a brick overhang.
That was the community, unobtrusive and easily overlooked, where, if Crossland had gone to earth, he could be literally unfindable. DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
This is why, while pylons are getting bigger, phone masts are being disguised as trees or placed in the most unobtrusive places possible. Times, Sunday Times
The picture is at its best when Blaustein's unobtrusive film crew eavesdrop on the day-to-day family life of the wrestlers.
Police officers in small groups stood around keeping a watchful eye on the proceedings, an unobtrusive presence.
The use of unobtrusive JavaScript is mentioned in passing after several JavaScript ideas that are not unobtrusive have been trotted out. Web Teacher › Review: Web Design for Developers
Swenson said most of the Marysville track's events would be small and unobtrusive.
Like a chameleon, he could merge unobtrusively into the background.
Despite her martial nature, Zhakkarn is soft-spoken and unobtrusive in peaceful situations, preferring to observe from the background and speak only when necessary, like a good soldier. ARC Giveaway Contest! «
We drive a Honda Civic, so he has to scrunch down and stick his head in the window, trying to be unobtrusive about it.
The employees manning these centres are trained to remain unobtrusive and encourage the visitors to potter about, handling the products on display.
I don't know if this was because she was just trying to be unobtrusive, or if she thought we were up to some nefarious activity.
There are slow pans and unobtrusive zooms as the cameras follow the course of each lesson.
Modern heating appliances of all types are generally well-designed, unobtrusive, and as efficient as current technology allows.
Morris described it as ‘unobtrusive, quiet and retiring, without being shy, humble and homely in its deportment and habits, sober and unpretending in its dress.’
The cameras would be unobtrusive and broadcasters would co-operate on feeds from the proceedings.
If there was ever a drink that summed up a decade, it was this light, unobtrusive, fizzy red wine from central Italy.
Where is that perfect place where monogrammed damasked linens, and flowers were changed daily, and one fretted lest one forgot to sufficiently tip the second footman who had so unobtrusively, so expertly, unpacked one's bag, shined one's shoes, pressed rumpled clothes and drawn one's bath? Michael Henry Adams: Why I Hate dogs: Useful Advice for Summer Guests and Hosts
At its best, the unobtrusive digital camera allows directors to quickly establish intimacy in character-driven films.
There remained the Margerisons; Peter, with his friendly smile and gentle companionableness; Hilary, worried and weary and hardly noticing her unobtrusive presence; Silvio, Caterina, and Illuminato sucking gingerbread and tumbling off the rack, and Peggy, on whose broad shoulder Rhoda suddenly laid her head and wept, all through the Mont The Lee Shore
There was a zithern accompaniment by the girl in orange, but it was soft and unobtrusive, that the lines themselves might not be obscured. Patty Blossom
Ginny leaned forward and whispered in Myra's ear "Chicken", then gave her an unobtrusive lick. MORE FROM GINNY BATES: ALLIE AND MARGIE
With that he placidly resumed his walk, and was soon seated in the stern-sheets of a whaleboat manned by uproarious Kanakas, himself daintily perched out of the way of the least maculation, giving his commands in an unobtrusive, dinner-table tone of voice, and sweeping neatly enough alongside the schooner. The Wrecker
Last week Finance Minister Jaswant Singh, in his quiet and unobtrusive way delivered a triple whammy.
Brill filmed this by sitting with the counsellors and covering the action with unobtrusive moves of his small camera.
I waited, sitting as quietly and unobtrusively as possible on the low backless benches in front of the ground-floor lobby windows.
It is a feat of storytelling that is carried off with tremendous poise and unobtrusive artistic integrity.
He was so quiet and unobtrusive that you would hardly know he was there!
Underground at New York's Greenwich Hotel, lantern lights reflect off the overhead beams of a 250-year-old wood-and-bamboo farmhouse, reconstructed by Japanese craftsmen to surround the pool and lounge area off the Shibui Spa, whose name the hotel translates as "a subtle and unobtrusive approach. You Lodgin' With Me?
There were always a couple of them, with a scribe lurking unobtrusively in the background and taking notes in an indecipherable shorthand.
Of the various firearms which include an integral lock, I know of none as neat and unobtrusive.
Sowho are these merchants of noise, who work so hard, and so unobtrusively to dominate our attention, while hiding their malignance behind the frenzied smiles and desperate flim-flam of others who more effectively command our loyalty, respect, admiration and even doting adoration? Have you a radio or tv?
Nudging people for their own benefit in unobtrusive ways is part of what the co-authors call “libertarian paternalism,” a seeming oxymoron that links the notions of freedom from constraint and firm, well-intentioned guidance. The unbearable arrogance of the "Nudge-ers"
His unobtrusive camerawork emphasizes the actor's complex use of physical gesture to bring the character into being.
Perhaps it would be better instead to find a nice hidden fold in the hills on which to site a small, unobtrusive nuclear power station.
A quiet, unobtrusive presence, Recoing has been earning effusive praise for this role and rightly so.
The service at the hotel is efficient and unobtrusive.
He was like so many taciturn Spaniards, not inconversable, and we had a pleasure in his unobtrusive intelligence which I should be sorry to exaggerate. Familiar Spanish Travels
Counseling was ongoing and placed unobtrusively into the daily routine.
The service at the hotel is efficient and unobtrusive.
He shows up only once in the flesh, a slim and unobtrusive figure with neatly combed grey hair. Times, Sunday Times
He ranks high among the great detectives of fiction but does so unobtrusively, disdaining self-advertisement.
That is, the bass pounds a little heavier, the skins hit a little cleaner, and the guitars are a bit more direct, and all in the most unobtrusive way possible.
A good plot has unobtrusive elegance and grace; a bad one flattens everything in its path, character, atmosphere, setting, story itself, everything clunked down to a series of events happening one after the other. on 23 Feb 2009 at 4: 02 pm Abby Godwin Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Not losing the plot
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Counseling was ongoing and placed unobtrusively into the daily routine.
He added that the extension had been designed to ensure it was unobtrusive on the skyline, using muted colours and including landscaping.
Its taste is strongly but to me pleasantly saline, with an aftertaste which hints of its invigorating chalybeate element, and an unobtrusive sparkle of carbonic acid gas which is to the boisterous energy of Soda Water as a smile is to loud laughter. Off to the Races
But keepers of the Coldplay and Travis flames will warm to its inoffensiveness, its unobtrusiveness and its lack of challenge.
I found an unobtrusive niche, a little cliff garden of thrift and sea campion which gave me a vee-shaped eyrie over the water.
We set out to find a way of creating a knowledge source in an integrated but unobtrusive way, bringing everybody easy, relevant and up-to-the-minute information.
The panels were erected at a low angle to be as unobtrusive as possible. Times, Sunday Times
Unlike the beer, the background music is too samey (slick and bland ambient and dance sounds, albeit pretty unobtrusive).
He did not, however, neglect to leave certain matters to future consideration, which had necessitated further visits, so that the little back room had become quite accustomed to his spare, not unsolid, but unobtrusive figure, and his pale, chinny face with clipped moustache and dark hair not yet grizzling at the sides. In Chancery
Not to me, quiet, creeping unobtrusively about the old house, childminding, never a whisper of flirtation in me. A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990
The excerpts taken from complete recordings required some fade-ins and fade-outs, and Decca's engineers have handled these as unobtrusively as possible.
The employees manning these centres are trained to remain unobtrusive and encourage the visitors to potter about, handling the products on display.
The sea, rolling direct from the shores of North America, has in fact eaten a chasm into the middle of a hill, and the giant, embayed and unobtrusive, stands in the rear of pigmy supporters. A Pair of Blue Eyes
The seats are some of the most comfortable in this size of car, and there are unobtrusive stowage spaces - including concealed compartments in the front footwells.
In a typically open-hearted and generous gesture, he is also offering to build an unobtrusive five-star hotel.
A cello player and a flautist play some unobtrusive melody near the back of the living room; hands are shaken while knowing looks are exchanged.
In structural terms, long and slender reinforced-concrete columns support the floors in an unobtrusive 8.4m grid.
He says that berms are highly effective, yet unobtrusive.
The coffee-table is glass, to be as unobtrusive as possible.
Facebook's challenge will be to keep these ads as unobtrusive as possible so that users are not alienated or driven to unlike brands.
Counseling was ongoing and placed unobtrusively into the daily routine.
The quiet, unobtrusive Scot has gone about his task of having the course in pristine condition.
He urged quietism, pacifism, and submission to civil government, exhorting his followers to live peaceably and unobtrusively in harmony with the community and the government.
Any means of correction may be used but all corrections should be neat and unobtrusive.
A good plot has unobtrusive elegance and grace; a bad one flattens everything in its path, character, atmosphere, setting, story itself, everything clunked down to a series of events happening one after the other. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Not losing the plot
Erial, as was her wont, chose mostly whites and other pale, unobtrusive colours.
The very helpful, unobtrusive wait staff are dressed in identical loose-fitting saffron-colored costumes, like the members of some gentle religious sect.
He was so quiet and unobtrusive that you would hardly know he was there!
The Netgear WPN824 is a compact, unobtrusive box with several internal antennas, apparently.
It is a feat of storytelling that is carried off with tremendous poise and unobtrusive artistic integrity.
And for this he had music that was controlled, unobtrusive and keeping with the mood and the situation.
Conscious or not, this film is strong and will be remembered long after many other sweeter, more conventional favourites have faded into unobtrusive oblivion.
Particularly insidious is the unobtrusive process of grooming for partnership, as revealed in the survey.
Colonel Brandon's delicate unobtrusive inquiries were never unwelcome to Miss Dashwood.
So the Government, too, has been operating in a quiet, unobtrusive manner.
Bat Harker was unobtrusively standing amongst the piled bales of groundwood that stacked the wharf from end to end. The Man in the Twilight
The lights were all so small and unobtrusive that they were never in shot, so Ryan could just drive around while Tony played the roof rack like a musical instrument.
And even this unobtrusive surveillance might be only a part of her fantasy.
So pure and yet teeming with cultural meanings, white is at the same time unobtrusive and attention getting.
He was so quiet and unobtrusive that you would hardly know he was there!
Don Corleone is a technicolour character who lives life with a blend of unobtrusiveness and swagger.
It's a quiet, unobtrusive life. Times, Sunday Times
I don't know if this was because she was just trying to be unobtrusive, or if she thought we were up to some nefarious activity.
In the world, there are so many geniuses walking into grave unobtrusively every day.
the translation is...light-handed...and generally unobtrusive
The music, mainly selections from the 1980s played at a moderate volume, is unobtrusive.
Never one to hog the limelight or to go in search of the headlines, he did Trojan work for people in a quiet and unobtrusive way.
He shows up only once in the flesh, a slim and unobtrusive figure with neatly combed grey hair. Times, Sunday Times
Tucked away unobtrusively in an angle of the river wall, it was also protected by a brick overhang.
The service is unobtrusive and the salespersons know what they are selling.
She's a quiet unobtrusive student.
He must find some place where, like a chameleon, he could merge unobtrusively into the background until he could contact Jerrold. TANK OF SERPENTS
The mono soundtrack sounds predictably canned and trebly, but the dubbed dialogue (there's no audio option for the original Spanish) presents clearly and the score, such as it is, is more or less unobtrusive.
Just a bit of cybernetic fungus that would unobtrusively wander the net.
At the point where the sections join, they are unobtrusive—that is, the restatements and transpositions are not advertised by themes.
The editing is swift but unobtrusive and the images are crisp and glossy, while the blatantly phony sets provide the perfect backdrop for both McKinney's chipper deadpan and the hyper-theatrical melodramatics of his costars.
Telephone reservation clerks were provided with feedback on their verbal behaviors obtained from unobtrusive monitoring of their telephone calls.
And from the outset, this idea will contradict manifestos of the avant-garde - attaching itself to a more unobtrusive psychological tradition.
He must find some place where, like a chameleon, he could merge unobtrusively into the background until he could contact Jerrold. TANK OF SERPENTS
Research that is genuinely unobtrusive may involve the intentional stimulation of organizational responses.
The interviews are shot on cameras so unobtrusive, and with a host so genial, that at times his guests genuinely seem to reveal their true selves.
Quiet and unobtrusive in our canoes, we could paddle up close to herds of elephant standing in the shallows and watch as they threw up wet sand to cool off.
The story-telling is engaging, the scholarship is carried off gracefully and unobtrusively and the writing is nicely poised between the demotic and the baroque.
a quiet, unobtrusive life of self-denial
Morris described it as ‘unobtrusive, quiet and retiring, without being shy, humble and homely in its deportment and habits, sober and unpretending in its dress.’
Edward was a tall man, quiet and unobtrusive, but always managing to sort things out and keep all in order.
The logistics of domestic life were made as unobtrusive as possible, much as they are now. THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT: The Scots' Invention of the Modern World
She felt very much an ignorant outsider, but unobtrusively attached herself to charge.
In Remainder, the INS general secretary puts his theoretical ideas to lively yet unobtrusive use, for the Re-enactor himself does not realize he is a Necronaut; he is simply a bloke, and, with Naz facilitating at his side he hopes, like the rest of us, to dominate matter, the better to disembody it. Two Paths for the Novel
It teaches us more than this: that, as man has smaller language than woman, his sphere is the domestic; is the quiet, the silent, the unobtrusive; is one of silent influences, not public and demonstrative like that of woman. Man's Rights: or, How Would You Like It?
The control of water pollution, for example, like other forms of regulatory behaviour, is an unobtrusive activity.
His own tomb was abuilding, as was fit and proper; his mother had put it next to Alexander the Great, but he had relocated it in a small, unobtrusive corner. Antony and Cleopatra
It is a feat of storytelling that is carried off with tremendous poise and unobtrusive artistic integrity.
He shows up only once in the flesh, a slim and unobtrusive figure with neatly combed grey hair. Times, Sunday Times
Maybe unobtrusiveness was what Gray was going for, but it is possible to be understated without being monotonous.

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