"unassuming figure" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to a person who is modest and does not draw attention to themselves. Example: The unassuming figure of the young artist went unnoticed in the crowd, but her talent spoke volumes in her paintings.
Highly skilled and deeply principled, he is an unassuming figure.
Beresford, an unassuming figure at the concert grand, was amazing.
FOR a desperately wanted man, Gary McKinnon cuts an unassuming figure.
The offbeat creative mastermind behind the Wii was Shigeru Miyamoto, who cuts rather an unassuming figure for a living legend.
Much saddened by the death of his beloved wife Gilberte, Alleg was a modest and unassuming figure.
When the tall, unassuming figure of Palin's speechwriter, Matthew Scully, shuffled into the bar, he was treated to the first standing ovation of his life.
Many of the skeptics took the opportunity to speculate freely about this unassuming Greg Smith figure -- even the name has a kind of Goldmanite uniformity -- and his motivations, often to his detriment.
I had grown up with her pictures and was in awe of her, and also taken aback by the mismatch between the soft, deep, clear beauty of her black-and-white photos that contain every shade and grain of grey and the unassuming, unadorned figure she cut.
On the set in Williamstown, Mr. Benton seemed an unassuming, almost grandfatherly figure.
Such is the lasting effect of the celebrity that descended upon this quiet, unassuming, drily humorous figure soon after the publication in 1987 of Norwegian Wood, a medium-length novel in which the narrator, a man of 37 (Murakami's age at the time), is on a plane when a Muzak version of the Beatles song takes him back to his student years.
Ultimately, Mr. Lew – known as bookish and unassuming, and a familiar figure in Congress – won Republicans over.
