With all of this, Alaïa remains his usual unassuming self: small (just over five foot two), soft-spoken and feisty, dressed in his habitual black Mandarin jacket and trousers, with three dogs — Anouar, a Maltese given to him by Campbell; another Maltese named Waka Waka, from the singer Shakira; and Didine, a St. Bernard — never far from his feet.
"Americano" is a film of modest ambitions — it does not strive for greatness or novelty — but it demonstrates unassuming self-assurance and an admirable willingness to take formal and emotional risks in pursuit of a complicated and elusive truth.
Their current tour's sold-out nights at London's Scala showed the tide still rises for these unassuming self-made stars and their spirited repertoire of horn-hollering soul hooks, floor-shaking beats, and punchy improv.
Most acutely, he picks up on Peel's tendency to identify with bands such as the Higsons, the Wedding Present, Mega City Four – "unassuming, self-deprecating, pleasant if approached… the sort of bands he wouldn't mind going for a biryani with".
Wöhler was gentle, unassuming, and self-effacing; Liebig was ambitious, mercurial, and often arrogant.
Of all the important English playwrights, Alan Bennett is the most unassuming and self-effacing, so much so that it would be easy to overlook his accomplishments.
Swarbrick is unassuming and self-deprecating, as he laughs his way through a story of the embarrassment of eight bars of Van Morrison's "Saint Dominic's Preview" playing before the Cuban national anthem after the Cubans won gold in an Olympic volleyball qualifying tournament he was running.
One astonishment of "Sex, Lies and Videotape" was its unassuming air of self-confidence.
But anyway... WHAT THE PUNDITS ARE SAYING: Howard Fineman of the Huffington Post and MSNBC: Howard Fineman (@howardfineman) I know #Bush, like his unassuming, blunt honesty, self-deprecating humor.
Unlike busy-touristy Oia, Finikia is calm and unassuming, not so self-absorbed, and although it does have some traditional Cycladic homes, it looks more like an unfinished urban project because of many villas under construction that come in sight like eyesores.
The dandified, aggressively modern surface was replaced by a self-consciously unassuming and traditional garb.
