Sentence examples for unpretentiousness from inspiring English sources

The French loved Wilbur's modesty and unpretentiousness, and the way he carefully inspected every wire and strut on his aeroplane.

The little marble "Mercure" (1741) of Jean-Baptiste Pigalle is almost wholly Berninian, except in its intimacy and deliberate unpretentiousness; even in Pigalle's most ambitious undertakings, the relative scale of the figures is much reduced and the whole composition opened up, in contrast to Bernini's tombs.

With her humour, exuberance, and unpretentiousness, Child became an unlikely star.

In London, I love the River Café, for the honesty of its produce and the elegant unpretentiousness of its cooking.

Dunlap, meanwhile, tells us that one of his first acts as C.E.O. of Scott Paper was, in an orgy of unpretentiousness, to throw out the bookshelves in his office and replace them with Aboriginal paintings from Australia: "To me, the paintings made a lot more sense.

"He has this enormous self-confidence, together with an unpretentiousness, which is indicative of someone who knows what he's doing," Smolin said.

The rather spare décor has a few homey touches — checkered napkins, scarred tables, a photo of a trophy swordfish hanging on the wall — but nowhere is this unpretentiousness more appreciated than in the presentation of the affogato.

You can't imitate unaffectedness and unpretentiousness and such peculiar brilliance in the classroom or on the page.

I can't say if this nicely crafted nonsense will sell as a franchise, but I know that I miss the unpretentiousness of the "Bourne" movies.

His goals were the same as Fowler's: clarity and unpretentiousness.

After graduation, he forgot his professor's manual for many years, during which time he became a professional essayist, renowned for his clarity and unpretentiousness.