This past spring saw not one but four solo shows, three of them Broadway vehicles for major star ladies and one unassuming off-Broadway effort with a skinny guy you probably never heard off.
Mr Kalashnikov had led a quiet and unassuming life, making little effort to take advantage of his fame, or making much money from it.
The thoughtful, unassuming Nilekani is the leader of that effort, one largely playing out outside India.
Short and unassuming, he said this week he made an effort to enjoy the run-up to the Kentucky Derby, a race he has, like any trainer, dreamed of winning.
His modest and unassuming manner and commitment to thoughtful experimentation and collaborative efforts brought people together and brought out the best in their efforts.
"What," he demands of his Iowa campaign team, "do you think the delta will be for our effort?" Part of the Steyer lore is the role of unassuming billionaire, and he is easygoing and approachable as he chats up small groups of college students across Iowa.
She desperately tries to be open minded, fair and unassuming in all situations, even a multiple choice test, and for all her effort, she is told she is wrong, wrong, and yet again wrong.
It was amazing that anyone was in the bar at all, considering the effort made to hide it among the grated storefronts and overflowing garbage cans on an unassuming block near Delancey Street.
Mr Cartier-Bresson's fame, which grew despite his efforts to avoid it, reminds a much wider world of its persistent admiration for unassuming genius, and of the dwindling stock of targets for that admiration.
The movie, despite its unassuming style and tightly focused story, tries to cover every side and cater to just about every possible ideological objection, an effort at comprehensiveness that seems noble and a little nutty.
