At forty-eight, he is tall, courtly, unassuming, and flat-footed, with a tangle of wiry black curls—his "wackadoo hair," as his friend the director Michael Mayer calls it.
Across Arlington, Michael Zottoli and Patricia Mills lived in an unassuming block of flats with their toddler and a baby, who were taken into care after their parents' arrest.
Further east, off Cable Street, stands an unassuming block of flats by Níall McLaughlin, which completes a Peabody estate from the 1870s with a handsome brick building, blending in so well with its context you might not even notice it had arrived.
The "text" is a recording of Shaker women singing various hymns; their voices are flat and unassuming.
There is an astounding disproportion between the actual strength of the terrorists and the fear they manage to inspire It is because the Pentagon is a relatively flat and unassuming building, whereas the World Trade Center was a tall, phallic totem whose collapse created an immense audiovisual effect.
About four and half years ago, the Guardian sent me to interview him at his home in Leeds: a penthouse flat atop an unassuming tower block, accessed by a private lift and adorned inside with kitsch memorabilia and framed pictures of himself with the Beatles and Mrs Thatcher.
The 988-acre estate, dotted with a smattering of small, unassuming buildings, is a seemingly endless expanse of flat, treeless land between snow-capped peaks and the misty waters of a nearby fjord.
Today, it is a quiet, unassuming road lined with ordinary brick and concrete flats.
Outside of Minneapolis, in Burnsville, MN lies "Garden of Eden," a peaceful flat green swath of cemetery gently punctuated by trees and a simple unassuming small granite arch.
Unassuming from the outside, despite its location between the Ritz hotel and St James's Palace in London, Murdoch's flat has a large balcony overlooking Green Park.
