How To Use Unostentatious In A Sentence
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All this work - hard work: far too hard for his own good - was done quietly and unostentatiously behind the scenes.
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Even the synthetic serving - man, sitting at the table dressed in an unostentatious suit, applauded with gusto.
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Shrimpton, dressed in a simple, unostentatious black dress – more bohemian than haute couture – is quick to lament the fashion world's excesses.
The Saturday interview: Jean Shrimpton
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More than 4500 paying customers turned up the other day for a friendly involving non-league Sutton United, a quiet, unostentatious operation who play in the leafy environs of south London's stockbroker belt.
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His unostentatious manner and his sense of humour endeared him to those with whom he came in contact, and as a lecturer he was lively and interesting.
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Materials are deliberately unostentatious, in keeping with the austere spirit of the Capuchin order, which conceives the church as a welcoming open house, rather than an aloof, overpowering monument.
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This is acting of the purest and most unostentatious kind, unadorned by self-pity or visible virtuosity.
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There is not even any need to put on your best bib and tucker, because the restaurant itself is a surprisingly unostentatious venue that specialises in simplicity.
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It's an understated, totally assured, and unostentatious style.
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The Secret Millionaire9pm, Channel 4Chris Brown is a gadget-obsessed, self-confessed geek who has made millions from his travel website, but lives an unostentatious, family-based lifestyle and wants to put his wealth to good use.
The weekend's TV highlights
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Oslo is unostentatious, a cosmopolitan city that does not have skyscrapers, spaghetti flyovers, screeching cars, multi level metros of monolithic malls.
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Our president had a rhinestone-covered 20 gallon cowboy hat with an airhorn and flashing strobe, and he seemed far less virtuous than my neighbor, with her simple and unostentatious cap.
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‘You know that Barry will be unostentatiously successful in anything he's involved in,’ said one business source.
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Now, for some reason, I've gone off it, but the glasses remain beautiful - simple and plain, unostentatious, solid and geometric.
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Not to speak of the unostentatiously low-key, delimiting, and cool-filtered cinematography by Leigh's usual cameraman, Dick Pope.
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Ross McMullin's short biography works, like Watson himself, both unostentatiously and effectively to achieve results.
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Chopin has fallen through dissonance into the abyss - only to curve upward in the third Prelude to a world of unostentatious grace.
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The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by a the elaborate frivolity of chess.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Chess
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Women were instructed to wear dresses of “surpassing neatness and simplicity,” and respectable urban men were expected to become what a business directory in the 1850s called “the unknown knight, with his plain unostentatious black armor.”
A Renegade History of the United States
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Now in his early fifties, Jobs live quietly privately, with his wife and four kids in a large, unostentatious house in suburban Palo Alto.
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his unostentatious office
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On other occasions - the encounters of the Giant and his mother spring to mind - the simplicity is both very effective and unostentatiously moving.
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Consciously unostentatious though she might be, Attias is fabulously well connected.
Cécilia Attias: 'I am still here'
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This is acting of the purest and most unostentatious kind, unadorned by self-pity or visible virtuosity.
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Unostentatious and unshowy, their simplicity belies their deep resonance.
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He will be sadly missed because he was a very genuine person who helped with charitable causes in an unostentatious way.
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Outwardly quiet and unostentatious, he was a deeply thoughtful man who shared his father's fascination with the complex iconography of ecclesiastical architecture and trappings.
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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
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The Secret Millionaire9pm, Channel 4Chris Brown is a gadget-obsessed, self-confessed geek who has made millions from his travel website, but lives an unostentatious, family-based lifestyle and wants to put his wealth to good use.
The weekend's TV highlights
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Now in his early fifties, Jobs live quietly privately, with his wife and four kids in a large, unostentatious house in suburban Palo Alto.
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Public tours reveal the unostentatious shipboard lifestyle of the Royals on voyages out to the British Empire and up to Scotland each summer.
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Also immaculately turned out in civilian threads, he disclosed to me his large wardrobe of expensive but unostentatious clothes, all of which have been imported from the best tailors in London.
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Caroline Quentin is unostentatious but very convincing as the central character Maggie Mee.
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It's the sort of solid, unostentatious compound, hidden behind walls, where Afghanistan's old upper-middle class lived in the 1960s and '70s, the Afghan equivalent of WASP.
The Man Who Might Have Been 'King'
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He was esteemed by his neighbours and unostentatiously prosperous.
IN LOVE AND WAR
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The unweary, unostentatious, and inglorious crusade of England against slavery may probably be regarded as among the three or four perfectly virtuous pages comprised in the history of nations.
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An unostentatiously devout man, that is where he would, in different circumstances, undoubtedly have been.
DARE CALL IT TREASON
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Is it unwise for me to gratify a desire for beautiful things, which will be a constant joy to my friends and my children as they grow to appreciate them, as well as to myself, when it is done in so quiet and unostentatious a manner?
The Splendid Spoils of Standard Oil
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Lambert, a focused, unostentatious man who created such reality formats as Faking It and Shipwrecked, does not seem too bothered by his critics.
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The lyrics are unostentatious and the imagery is stark - the personal opens up into the universal thanks to Bickford's suggestive, elliptical couplets.
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What is required is a steady, unostentatious stoicism, made up out of absolute, cold hatred and contempt for the aggressors, and complete determination that their defeat will be utter and shameful.
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Pope John Paul II's simple coffin of blond cypress wood, with its only decoration a cross and the letter M for Mary, symbolised his unostentatious lifestyle.
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The well-used copper utensils, heavy slab of salmon and a lemon almost suspended at the table edge each play their own unostentatious part in this scene.
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The unostentatious red-checkered tables groaned with the weight of wooden salad bowls and heaped plates of traditional American fare.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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unostentatious elegance
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Shaw was amazing that way; quiet and unostentatious and Scots, but a magnetic personality.
GOTHIC PURSUIT
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Secondly, I'm middle class, and living next to such unostentatious but quietly evident wealth is guaranteed to press all those buttons marked ‘grasping middle class insecurity’ in my psyche.
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The blues singer and guitarist Phillip Walker, who has died aged 73, was one of those intelligent, tasteful, unostentatious musicians who tend to be more appreciated by critics and other players than whooped at by audiences.
Phillip Walker obituary