unassuming

• “Along the way he meets many spiritual messengers, who come in unassuming forms such as a camel driver and a well-read Englishman.”

  The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho: Book summary

• “I have to give them props for mindblowingly good and cheap vegetarian Indian tucked away in unassuming strip malls, Diddy Reese ice cream sandwiches, numerous restaurants specializing in Okonomiyaki (Japanese pancakes), and the tacos!!!”

  PROFILE: Midtown Lunch’er “Amanda” | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan

• “It is unassuming from the outside, but the food is fantastic (although a bit pricey).”

  WirelessTrips.com Campground Review: Herkimer KOA – Herkimer, New York

• “Though the houses individually appear relatively unassuming from the outside, the complex as a whole is far from modest.”

  Being Geraldo

• “NO MATTER HOW hard you try you will never be able to grasp just how tiny, how spatially unassuming, is a proton.”

  Excerpt: A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

• “The grass-blade rising from its sheath in unassuming perfection is more marvellous in its immanent beauty than the two-edged blade of a legendary angel sword.”

  The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing

• “Yet, when she stood in unassuming simplicity before us, playing with our children, or with girlish assiduity performing little kind offices for Idris, one wondered in what fair lineament of her pure loveliness, in what soft tone of her thrilling voice, so much of heroism, sagacity and active goodness resided.”

  II.8

• “Parks may have been "unassuming" -- this was praise back then -- but she became a tough-minded admirer of Malcolm X, and an outspoken critic of sexism within the movement itself.”

  Newsweek: Unforgettable

• “Thieves can use these lists to call unassuming people and pose as collectors.”

  The Huffington Post: Robert Siciliano: Tax Related Identity Theft Scams up 300%

• “From the ground, an individual patch of deforested land seems deceptively benign and unassuming, which is perhaps what made clearing the land such an endemic practice.”

  TreeHugger

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