Sentence examples for unassuming power from inspiring English sources

At 57, Mr. Lew may be the most unassuming power broker in Washington.

It's difficult to articulate exactly what gives this novel its unassuming power.

Amid all the hubbub, Marks and Barfield make a very unassuming power couple.

In them he emerges as a figure of commonsensical wit, unassuming piety, superhuman power and increasing physical bulk.

One of the great pleasures of Ms. Durning's dances is her own faith in the power of unassuming emotionally (and physically) propulsive movement to express quite complex notions.

The mackerel was joined by a mysterious ingredient called ham choi, a brown, unassuming vegetable that had the power to transform a rather bland stroll across the tongue to a rather exciting dance on the tastebuds, depending which bit of it you got.

It's a profound belief that what a group can make together, even in an unassuming ramshackle room, has the power to break people open, uplift society, save the world.

Partly, its power derives from the unassuming way it goes about its business.

Could you imagine President Obama conferring the same power and access the unassuming Cronkite had with LBJ, to the narcissistic glitter-babies sitting behind the computerized desktops of the various cable/network news channels today?

Shortly after moving to New York, in 1996, the photographer Chris Payne wandered into an old M.T.A. substation in Brooklyn, where he found, behind an unassuming brick façade, gigantic, antiquated machinery powering the subways.

Her screen persona is a blend of the girl next door and "The Woman Next Door," an unassuming ingénue who has learned of her powers of attraction but is still learning to use her powers of seduction, and so whose naïveté is increasingly becoming faux.