Yet, for all that, it is unpretentiously welcoming, and its people are delightful.So it certainly seemed in 1965, when I went there first, as a British 18-year-old filling the gap between school and university, and so it seemed again when I revisited it a few months ago for the first time in 40 years.
It wasn't perfect, but it was fresh, with pages that turned freely and unpretentiously.
Retained from the tastes of previous periods was the penchant for blurring the line between created structure and nature; buildings were often constructed to be unpretentiously rustic, while gardens were meticulously designed to be viewed but not entered.
The proliferation of magazines in the United States, and the public's impatience with painstaking demonstrations and polemics, helped establish the essay just as firmly as a receptacle for robust, humorous common sense, unpretentiously expressed, as in the writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 94).
Clear, beautifully structured, unpretentiously poetic, these stories include intimate portraits of abandoned widows and disillusioned intellectuals, visits to the village opera or a childhood home, and a stark and moving account of lost love.
Knausgaard's prose can be crude, but far more often it is unpretentiously direct and sincere for a supposed literary author.
Silver is deeply, unpretentiously polite, with an air of mischief that makes it seem as if he were always slightly struggling to stay on best behavior.
And he wore the plainer suits that rotated through his wardrobe just as unpretentiously.
There's nothing as fiercely mournful as "Linden Arden Stole the Highlights," from "Veedon Fleece," or as triumphantly erotic as "Angeliou," from "Into the Music," true, but those albums didn't have anything as unpretentiously wise as the title track of this one.
In the show at Donahue, thirty curio-filled cardboard "kits" rest unpretentiously atop textiles on the gallery floor.
News Corporation belongs to a region of the press that likes to think of itself as sitting comfortably and unpretentiously within the "Front Page"/"Scoop" tradition, in closer touch with public tastes than with establishment ones, and resistant to the self-regard that defines the broadsheet culture.
