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Unpretentious cocktail bars are a refreshing change in Manhattan.
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Unpretentious and easy to miss, it is dedicated, not to the badge-wearing Earps or their tubercular friend, John Henry "Doc" Holliday, but to the memory of brothers Frank and Tom McLaury — two of the three men who died that day.
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Unpretentious and earnest, Edgar made a good impression on his English hosts.
Fortune’s Fool Fred Goodman 2010
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Unpretentious, matter-of-fact, thoughtful and completely honest and dependable, I found him to be a true prince of a person and wise about the frailties of Wall Street and the proper course of leadership in crisis.
Robert Lenzner: Paul Calello Steered Credit-Suisse Through the Financial Crisis Robert Lenzner 2010
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Unpretentious and earnest, Edgar made a good impression on his English hosts.
Fortune’s Fool Fred Goodman 2010
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Unpretentious, matter-of-fact, thoughtful and completely honest and dependable, I found him to be a true prince of a person and wise about the frailties of Wall Street and the proper course of leadership in crisis.
Robert Lenzner: Paul Calello Steered Credit-Suisse Through the Financial Crisis Robert Lenzner 2010
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Unpretentious, matter-of-fact, thoughtful and completely honest and dependable, I found him to be a true prince of a person and wise about the frailties of Wall Street and the proper course of leadership in crisis.
Robert Lenzner: Paul Calello Steered Credit-Suisse Through the Financial Crisis Robert Lenzner 2010
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Unpretentious, matter-of-fact, thoughtful and completely honest and dependable, I found him to be a true prince of a person and wise about the frailties of Wall Street and the proper course of leadership in crisis.
Robert Lenzner: Paul Calello Steered Credit-Suisse Through the Financial Crisis Robert Lenzner 2010
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Unpretentious and earnest, Edgar made a good impression on his English hosts.
Fortune’s Fool Fred Goodman 2010
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Day 3: S.K.'s Donuts & Croissant, Los Angeles, called "Unpretentious, affordable, open late, and boasting what sounds like a dreamy buttermilk bar and a somewhat-renowned apple fritter."
'Donut Diaries:' Religious (with a wink) on Hanukkah treats 2010
lopesse commented on the word Unpretentious
Dr. Karen Blackwell of Duke University wrote a column in which she came up with the world "vilomah" to designate a parent who has buried a child. She came up with the word because it has the same source, Sanskrit, that is the source for the word "widow."
May 25, 2009