How To Use Unpretentious In A Sentence
-
Many of the pictures and symbols were helpful to the Democrats 'cause: a family that clearly was from the real America -- Wallace and Bobby, his parents; a wife, Elizabeth, who looks like the kind of unpretentious person who doesn't mind celebrating her anniversary at Wendy's; a demure daughter and two towheaded tots.
Digital Dispatches
-
The food is gutsy and unpretentious, and recipes such as squid stuffed with raisins and pine kernels, or polenta and Seville orange cake, certainly do it for me.
-
The Dodgers were “dem Bums,” the “daffiness boys,” the unpretentious clowns, whose fans were seen as scruffy bluecollar workers who spoke with bad diction.
Wait Till Next Year
-
A sober brick building, unpretentious in scale and design, lies modestly low among lawns at the end of a road with playing fields on either side.
-
It's a low budget affair and so the hotel was unpretentious and homely and cheap.
-
Welcome to Wine Country Yacht Charters, Napa County's most unpretentious place to relax and drink wine.
-
The desserts range from the unpretentious — an ice cream sundae or sorbet — to the splendacious — caramel panna cotta, hazelnut Anglaise, or two kinds of crepes.
-
Stack's taste and style were admirable yet always unpretentious, with no trace of affectation or competitiveness.
Times, Sunday Times
-
Offering a wide variety of flexible, unpretentious, gutsy food with modest bills, it's affordable and fun.
-
The bridge design is unpretentious. It consists simply of two steel towers supporting a lift span.
-
She managed to impart great elegance to the unpretentious dress she was wearing.
-
Saturday January 26 2008 and it's 4am at home in Eccleston, a sleepy town in west Lancashire, north of Manchester and west of Liverpool - nowhere in particular, anonymous and unpretentious, which is exactly as I like it.
Blogposts | guardian.co.uk
-
Esther Kläs's engaging, unpretentiously reductive sculpture evokes the postwar, semiabstracted, universalist figures of Reg Butler, Germaine Richier and Kenneth Armitage.
Abstracts (Subtle or Semi) And Bold Dimensions
-
Nikka Costa is a rare treasure; a one-time child star who has grown into an unpretentious, genuinely talented adult.
-
Fiorina, he was approvingly described as "unpretentious" -- a button-down manager who prized efficiency over flair. mark hurd, mark hurd wife, mark hurd resigns, hpq, hp, hp ceo
WN.com - Business News
-
The house is unpretentious in its lack of refinement.
Times, Sunday Times
-
However, I fear they are retreating, and minority indulgences such as cribbage are going the same way as dominoes, shove ha'penny, bar billiards, and the very jolly, unpretentious boozers in which they used to be played day and night.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
-
Tapas bars are proliferating because they serve up a wide variety of flexible, unpretentious, gutsy food and modest bills.
-
Fantastic views, bizarre place, very discreet, unpresuming and unpretentious.
-
Alaska, the particular reality from which Palin hails, is so little known by most Americans that she was able to freely mythicize her state as the utopian last refuge of the "hard work ethic," "unpretentious living," and proud self-sufficiency.
The New York Review of Books
-
The unpretentious, butter-hued dining room is calm then - underpopulated, even, compared to the Darwinian bray and jostle of jampacked evenings.
-
And while it was hardly a pop revolution, there was a simple, unpretentious charm about the performance.
Times, Sunday Times
-
They used these simple stacked facades for unpretentious utilitarian buildings; the repeated detail lent itself to prefabrication.
-
I was raised in Canberra, where the public education system is quite excellent and the handful of private schools are relatively unpretentious.
-
I am a slightly lazy, time-poor, unpretentious pragmatist.
Times, Sunday Times
-
His lyrics are always childlike and unpretentious, evoking ridiculous pictures and colourful characters.
-
The style is simple and unpretentious.
Times, Sunday Times
-
It is written so clearly, so directly, so unpretentiously, with candour and endearing tenderness.
Family Legacies « Tales from the Reading Room
-
Meanwhile, the famous rooftop deck, with its awe-inspiring view of the Basilica dome and Loring Park, remains about living the good life, unpretentiously.
-
The food on our most recent visit was what we've come to expect - hot, unpretentious and well-made if a bit slapdash, as befits a café.
-
Much like the atmosphere at Caf Poca Cosa, the conversation was intimate, colorful and unpretentious.
-
They want unpretentious, but without being jeans and a sweatshirt.
Times, Sunday Times
-
Those who met the woman, who will one day be Queen of Sweden, were very impressed by her kind manner, unpretentious way and elegant dress.
-
This unpretentious poetess does not go about lecturing or delivering sermons in high places.
-
Carly Fiorina, he was approvingly described as "unpretentious" -- a button-down manager who prized efficiency over flair. mark hurd, mark hurd wife, mark hurd resigns, hpq, hp, hp ceo
WN.com - Business News
-
This riddle of a restaurant is shamelessly unpretentious, and if you've never noticed its inconspicuous façade, you are forgiven.
-
Betty was afraid the arch's columns might look too formal in her casual and unpretentious garden, but she is happy with the effect.
-
The convivial, unpretentious atmosphere and the often interesting art and photography exhibitions are highlights too.
-
Still, he's entirely unpretentious about his labor of love.
-
For most of the time a small, unpretentious car such as this is handier than a bigger, flashier one.
Times, Sunday Times
-
There are very nice clusters of unpretentious hotels there.
-
The book is unpretentious; it can present names without dropping them, and the tone is contagiously warm.
-
The road is lined by cheap hostels and unpretentious bars that bustle at night, and has been a popular spot for foreign backpackers and budget tourists for many years.
-
Stack's taste and style were admirable yet always unpretentious, with no trace of affectation or competitiveness.
Times, Sunday Times
-
The flourishing foodie scene, based on unpretentious but imaginative home cooking, is another plus.
Times, Sunday Times
-
Diana presented an image of a casual, unpretentious young mother by taking her sons to McDonalds, something that the Prince of Wales would never, ever do.
-
And whether people came here for comfort, memories or merely to witness what, with remarkable near-timing, proves quietly and unpretentiously to be one of the best line-ups all year, they've long since discovered that they've found it.
-
Unintentionally, Anne's step showed her to be a wise and unpretentious woman, whose only aspirations for her children were that that they live happy and fulfilled lives.
-
The atmosphere is buzzy and unpretentious, and the waiters charming.
Times, Sunday Times
-
But Stacey, whom everyone describes as unpretentious, refused to drive her new Mercedes, instead sticking with an old forest-green Chrysler minivan.
Dr. Nicholas and Mr. Hyde
-
The young couple had studied together, they were academically brilliant, but socially shy, reserved, unpretentious.
-
His paintings typically have an unpretentious, seemingly artless air, redolent of provincial life, which is at variance with the trend towards metropolitan sophistication characteristic of much British painting in the period.
-
The Tides Inn is both comfortable and unpretentious.
-
This unpretentious place is already very popular, so book ahead.
Times, Sunday Times
-
A self-imposed career hiatus has kept this eloquent, loquacious and unpretentious street-style guy from touring around these parts since the late '90s.
-
This staging was once admired for its unpretentious pictorialism.
Times, Sunday Times
-
It is certainly his style, his style is completely unpretentious.
-
The Hotel is a very pleasant, friendly, but unpretentious hotel situated in Hammersmith.
-
With its gray clapboard siding, its forthright Colonial architecture, and its serene oceanside setting, the unpretentious two-story house immediately appealed to the couple's relaxed sense of tradition.
-
The legendary Chinese Emperor Yao said to be the Han ancestor was unpretentious and diligent and remains of great importance to Confucianists.
-
The unpretentious equines were shot repeatedly over a 4-day period.
-
The oarmen were impressed with the unpretentious alehouse, which quickly gained popularity among the Yale set.
Economy puts epic Yale eating/drinking club at risk
-
In "Pi", Kate Bush sings to 137 decimal places, rapturously, yet her singular lyrics are anchored by her southern English diction: she writes as unpretentiously as she speaks.
My hero: Kate Bush by David Mitchell
-
The atmosphere was overwhelmingly blue collar and unpretentious.
Times, Sunday Times
-
Julian Green, a spokesman for MillerCoors, said that the campaign's message of living the high life "unpretentiously" resonated in today's uncertain economy and was undiminished by not being able to use Super Bowl.
NYT > Home Page
-
a royal family living in unpretentious domesticity
-
Tucked away on Saxon Place off Dodsworth Avenue, Symryn's Restaurant's white, unpretentious exterior hardly screams out for attention.
-
As I would soon discover, she's a sweet, savvy, wholly unpretentious delight who along with her wife Erika otherwise known as Grundy is pursuing and realizing a very special dream.
Neil Zevnik: Small Town Hearts in the Big City: A Slow Food Tale
-
It features a 14th-century wooden bishop, unpretentiously displayed on a raw pine pedestal, overlooking a couch and armchairs designed by Mr. Shapiro.
Dealers Get Real
-
She was so simple and unpretentious that most people who met her had no idea of the depth of her inner life.
-
We love taverns because they're unpretentious and appear to be impervious to the mainstream.
-
Here, in this small, unpretentious rural backwater on the right bank of Bordeaux's Gironde river, was where those who favoured silky, supple clarets bought their wine.
-
On the other hand William was totally unpretentious and extremely austere in his living arrangements.
-
He projected an unpretentious, open image, and his reputation for moral rectitude became a crucial asset for a nation still shocked by the Watergate scandal.
-
In tributes and memorial speeches Paul has been eulogized by political friends and foes as honest, principled, and unpretentious.
-
An unpretentious man, he even kept his hair slicked down because, as he said in 1977, he could not stand musicians who affected dramatic manes of hair.
-
It's an unpretentious medley of old and new - the perfect antidote to the self-consciously cool bars of Dublin.
-
Chronic overreacher Darren Aronofsky's relatively unpretentious follow-up to the ridiculous debacle that was
Dallas Observer | Complete Issue
-
Even the humble sope — a thick circle of corn dough with a depression in the center, typically filled with beans — becomes an elegant but unpretentious appetizer when filled with shrimp and mushrooms.
Back to Baja: Some favorite dishes get a makeover
-
She dressed conservatively, wore little makeup and was unpretentious.
-
These days, apparently ‘restored to look as it did in Van Gogh's day, the auberge serves superb French home cooking in a friendly, unpretentious atmosphere’.
-
The quotation propelled an unpretentious poet called Minnie Haskins blinking into the light.
-
His warmhearted, unpretentious humanity made a great impression on me.
-
an unpretentious country church
-
The atmosphere was overwhelmingly blue collar and unpretentious.
Times, Sunday Times
-
she was unpretentiously dressed even though she was the guest of honor
-
So it is good to return to the home of British puppetry and discover an unpretentious family show, written and composed by Barb Jungr, that is both jokily tuneful and a tribute to the power of theimagination.
The Fabulous Flutterbys
-
My advice is to get a few bottles of plonk at the off-licence and get down to Ethas Kitchen, only a five minute drive away - a place that oozes ambience and offers quality dishes in a very unpretentious surrounding.
-
Donoghue's a true historian, whose period detail is exacting enough to please the most pedantic of pedants, while her style displays an intimacy with the past that's both unpretentious and modern.
-
They want unpretentious, but without being jeans and a sweatshirt.
Times, Sunday Times
-
The constant punning and allusions through sampling naturally makes them literate in the most unpretentious manner I have heard and seen out of a group so avant-garde.
-
To his advantage, Rajagopal does not have the bearing of an unapproachable guru but comes across as friendly, witty and unpretentious.
-
She's very self-deprecating about her success, very unpretentious, and not a little sceptical about the publishing world.
-
This is a straightforward, unpretentious musical comedy about five cleaning women who toil night after night in a Calgary office building.
-
This unpretentious book does not attempt to be more than it is - an easy, enjoyable account of a life well lived.
-
His lyrics are always childlike and unpretentious, evoking ridiculous pictures and colourful characters.
-
So the place feels unpretentious, but in a reassuringly plush way.
Times, Sunday Times
-
It's an honest, decent and unpretentious golf course.
-
It was a pretty little terraced house with roses around the doorway and trelliswork in an unpretentious garden.
-
It also suggests, albeit discreetly, how smart he was: You'll find in its unpretentiously written pages references to the likes of Max Beerbohm, John Dowland, Robert Herrick, Martin Luther, H.L.
Head of the Nice Guys Club
-
But Streep is direct, laid-back but alert, and thoroughly unpretentious.
-
It is cooking appropriate to the hotel itself, ie, highly polished and entirely unpretentious.
-
It's a happy, noisy, unpretentious place to eat, where you'll feel equally at home with your mates from uni or your mum and dad on a family night out.
-
The bedrooms are unpretentious and comfortable.
Times, Sunday Times
-
This year's rising darlings Coldplay make sincere, earnest music, but appear almost naively accessible and unpretentious by comparison.
-
This unpretentious log house had been the first home of Mr. and Mrs. Steadman, and was part of the "improvements" specified by the Government to show that a homestead is entered in good faith.
The Second Chance
-
Beneath her stern countenance, Asma Jahangir is a mellow person with extremely unpretentious and simple likes and dislikes.
-
Here's a down-home version of the Southwest classic that's easy and unpretentious and hits the spot - perfect for a meal that's often eaten out of a Frito bag.
-
Here was an uncontentious, unpretentious modification that no one would really notice.
Times, Sunday Times
-
Although she was wealthy, she lived in an unpretentious house.
-
Although she was wealthy, she lived in an unpretentious house.
-
The 31-year-old builder who transforms broken-down shells into real homes takes a refreshingly unpretentious attitude to interior design simply by denying any knowledge of its principles.
-
Winner was also impressed with the unpretentious surroundings and the friendly atmosphere.
-
Trish found it difficult to believe that someone so unpretentiously hard-working could apparently be acquiring a public reputation.
THE HARDIE INHERITANCE
-
The Corfu caper is a particular calamity because he is in fact modest and unpretentious.
Times, Sunday Times
-
It is the same one that has defined his own 23-year career, a humility in excelsis that has allowed him to weather an unparalleled level of scrutiny and adulation and still seem the unpretentiously modest child prodigy who scored his maiden first-class century at the age of 15.
Sachin Tendulkar's Yorkshire roots helped make him a master of modesty
-
The unpretentious restaurant serves simple soups, steaks and chicken dishes.
Times, Sunday Times
-
His floppy blond hair, slightly floppier than the last time shed seen him, the way he stood with his shoulders just slightly rounded, unaffected and unpretentious, the line of his perfect jaw.
Beautiful Disaster
-
Taking her cue from nature, Beverly designed the landscape to be casual and unpretentious.
-
Umbria is a wonderful region where life is simple and the people are unpretentious country folk.
-
Xavier leaned over the wheel to look up at the hotel again: an unpretentious little place, painted white and green.
The Catalans
-
Totally unpretentious and with great, reasonably priced food.
Times, Sunday Times
-
Red meat sent a message that she was “unpretentious and down to earth and unneurotic,” she said, “that I’m not obsessed with my weight even though I’m thin, and I don’t have any food issues.”
Archive 2007-08-01
-
Hidden in a little lane on Huashan Lu, Time Passage has been drawing expats and locals alike into its "unpretentiously" decor-ed room since the mid-90s.
Chinalyst - China blogs in English
-
I agree that this is a very clearly, respectfully, and unpretentiously written book that can serve as a companion to any artist.
There’s still work to be done | clusterflock
-
For the unpretentious, self-effacing actor he was, Joel McCrea had a remarkably varied career.
-
The atmosphere was overwhelmingly blue collar and unpretentious.
Times, Sunday Times
-
It is totally unpretentious, service is good, the meals are very authentic, the standard of food is consistent, and we've had many memorable evenings there.
-
His early sketches are raw and unpretentious.
-
The kindest way to describe the decor is unpretentious.
-
Informal, unpretentious and still very Italian; everything you hoped Chianti might be, but wasn't.
-
This man is Riders of Rebus who like a modern day mariachi emanates unpretentious, rocking pop tunes with spiky guitars and quirky melodies.
-
It was an unpretentious little place.
Times, Sunday Times
-
Much like the atmosphere at Caf Poca Cosa, the conversation was intimate, colorful and unpretentious.
-
There are thousands of unpretentious little beach shacks serving jerk chicken, callaloo and peas'n'rice - all for a couple of pounds.
-
This hotel is modern and unpretentious, but it's comfortable and neat and quite adequate for most, with private showers.
-
He was a straightforward and unpretentious man, practical and efficient, with no special desire for self-aggrandizement.
LORD PRESTIMION
-
Germany's Gomma gang have consistently been putting out some of the best, most interesting, unpretentiously fun and danceable music since their excellent Anti NY comp a few years back.
-
Joanna Blythman yearns for a tasty, unpretentious lunch for working people - and is delighted to find that Aberdeen has its very own little Italy
-
It is a brilliant study in mortality and mid-20 th-century Englishness, comic and tragic by turns, done with an absolutely natural, unpretentious honesty that makes it unputdownable.
-
It's unpretentious with good service and is full of locals.
Times, Sunday Times
-
Most importantly, Goin's unpretentious philosophy is reflected in the food she serves at Lucques.
-
Jen Kovach, one of the collective's founding members, informed me of the non-profit and unpretentious ways of Seamrippers.
-
I love the idea of unpretentious art as anti-, but also non-anti-.
Sunday Art Chat: Laura Berger
-
It doesn't improve from there:Red meat sent a message that she was "unpretentious and down to earth and unneurotic," she said, "that I’m not obsessed with my weight even though I’m thin, and I don’t have any food issues.
08/09/2007
-
At times in this hectic, helter-skelter world, an unpretentious reminder of the obvious is in order, and Dick and Larry have done it here.
-
He is as delightful as he is unpretentious, which is rare in a man so celebrated as he is, and she has lost none of her fascinations, although she is a grandmother.
The Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life, 1875-1912
-
It's an interesting, unpretentious, receptive personal literary experiment (pdf excerpt here), and Halliday's surprise takeaway is how remarkably, vibrantly "undated" most of the contents of Hudson Review summer '63 are.
Tributes and Tributaries: James Wolcott
-
Sydney's top ten rate among the best in the world if your tastes are for fresh ingredients, unpretentious culinary achievement and clean tastes.
-
Acquiring a 'swankier' image seems to be all the rage among our once unpretentious outlets.
Times, Sunday Times
-
Also here is the town's only gay nightclub, the Boom Boom Room, which fronts the Coast Inn, an unpretentious deco structure with low rates and killer water views.
-
These are kids with pure talent, meteoric energy, unbelievable charisma and refreshingly unpretentious intelligence.
-
Judge Andrew Smith said: ‘Packed with news, logically and unpretentiously presented, this is a paper that is a pleasure to read.’
-
From the outside, the building in which the World Economic Forum is being held appears unpretentious with its naked grey bricks.
-
Will be interesting to see how her 'unpretentious' lack of competency plays out among the great masses/independents.
Palin On Supreme Court Cases: ???
-
Kevin's understated presentations and flavors find their way into simple, unpretentious roulades, risottos, and galantines that never crowd the palate, or the plate, with too many fussy flavors.
-
In the unpretentious clubs like the Preservation Hall, traditional jazz lives on.
-
Though her sense of swing is evolving, Bode's unpretentious delivery, easy phrasing and sweet demeanor is delightful.
-
Brooks uses the Yiddish word "haimish" to describe what it was the simpler camps had but the luxurious ones did not, a word that "suggests warmth, domesticity and unpretentious conviviality.
Michael Rossmann, SJ: Finding God And Community In Simple Dwellings
-
The run on unpretentious style and seasoned finishes has been a boon for the purveyors of shelter chic.
-
Not surprisingly, the countries of Central and Eastern Europe are the birthplaces of some world-class dough specimens: the pierogi, knedliky, and pelmeni that are quintessential peasant food - unpretentious, filling, and cheap.
-
This land is not a marvel for its beauty, but for its endurance, for its ability to persist and support its residents; although littered and disheveled, it is unpretentiously alive.
-
Though her sense of swing is evolving, Bode's unpretentious delivery, easy phrasing and sweet demeanor is delightful.
-
You could say that it is about as unpretentious as it is possible to get, without actually being a fish-and-chip shop.
-
Walls is Walls and unpretentious but with quite a high rusk content.
A New Leicestershire Landmark
-
her quiet unpretentious demeanor
-
Robinson has written an unpretentious and highly readable biography of Seacole, as vivid and colourful as the central character herself, in her favourite canary-yellow dress and blue bonnet trimmed with red ribbons.
-
Hyped by the culturati, Marfa doesn't disappoint in the art and food department, yet stays unpretentiously true to its dusty cowboy roots.
Drive-Through Vacations
-
He was so simple, so unpretentious... what a tragedy.
Times, Sunday Times
-
When he arrived in Silicon Valley in 2005, brought in from Ohio to lead Hewlett-Packard after the stormy tenure of former CEO and now US Senate candidate Carly Fiorina, he was approvingly described as "unpretentious" -- a button-down manager who prized efficiency over flair. mark hurd, mark hurd wife, mark hurd resigns, hpq, hp, hp ceo
WN.com - Business News
-
We stayed here for dinner and went to a friendly, unpretentious restaurant and I had a really tasty beetroot, feta and Romescu salad and Mussels with homemade chips.
-
It was like three minutes three-minute pop songs that were kind of unpretentious and very basically about love, and just being a teenager and having a good time, you know.
Remembering Alex Chilton: An Underground 'Big Star'
-
What audiences also got was a sense of Chomsky the person, who seemed entirely unpretentious and approachable on film.
-
One lesson he has learnt from his family's wine business is the importance of the unpretentious Two Paddocks name.
-
He produced an ekka from somewhere -- one of those two-wheeled carts drawn by one insignificant pony that do most of the unpretentious work of India; and he and Ismail, the Afridi gateman, drove off into the darkness with a covered load.
Guns of the Gods
-
This unpretentious poetess does not go about lecturing or delivering sermons in high places.
-
Proper linen napkins were teamed with mismatched cutlery and homely plates, adding to the unpretentious but stylish character of the place.
-
There is something so straightforward about this simple, unpretentious day cream that just makes me reach for it time and again.
Times, Sunday Times
-
But, also like baseball, it's entirely pardonable in view of its good-natured competitiveness and unpretentious charm.
-
Hugh describes growing vegetables and rearing animals, as well as cooking them, in an unpretentious manner.
-
He was an unpretentious man in his forties, dressed in casual clothing.
-
The film, banned in Iran itself, is raw, unpolished yet crafted, its script plain and unpretentious, lending its scenes a sense of reality with no impression of exaggeration.
