Sentence examples for unassuming boy from inspiring English sources

TOM KEAN sometimes looks a bit like the shy, unassuming boy thrust on stage in the school auditorium.

She points across the schoolyard to an unassuming boy who is leaning shyly against a rotten tree trunk.

Born and raised in the 1950s in the rural town of Sonebe, near Japan's ancient capital, Kyoto, Miyamoto was a short, unassuming boy.

The cheerful, sunny voice of the unassuming boy singer from Texas was ubiquitous on the American soundtrack in the early years of World War II.

Anne Morrow, as she then was, aged 21 and still at university, can be forgiven for writing in her diary about the impact on her of the unassuming "boy" who had pitted himself against nature, solely and bravely.

"The Spinario has become a symbol of ancient Rome," says Daehner of this lifelike portrait of an unassuming boy seated on a rock, examining the sole of his foot.

He was a very, very unassuming, quiet boy in many ways for somebody so very talented, and joined that large sixth form and made a real impact academically.

Having met in London at the Royal College of Art, from which they graduated in 1996, these unassuming backroom boys from Shoreditch, east London, are on the brink of international fame, nominated for the Academy Award for Animated Short Film – a category won four times by the British cartoonist Nick Park.

That's why we get so many wish-fulfilment fantasies where unassuming teenage boys are whisked to lives of adventure by being bitten by a spider or being the chosen one in some nebulous prophecy.

That's why we get so many wish-fulfillment fantasies where unassuming teenage boys are whisked to lives of adventure by being bitten by a spider or being the chosen one in some nebulous prophecy.

While there is a far wider spectrum of behavior than she ever acknowledges — apparently her patients include no timid boys or unassuming men — many boys do act more turbocharged than many girls.