In Canada's case, the spending on land-mine alternatives is small and unalarming: $1.5 million for "nonlethal" computer simulation technology. ❋ Unknown (2008)
However, this is entirely unalarming, for the following reasons: (1) For Herder, this is emphatically something that must be done for all national groupings equally (not just or especially Germany!). ❋ Forster, Michael (2007)
I'd been expecting this, though I'd tried to make my message as unalarming as possible without lessening the urgency of it. ❋ Meyer, Stephenie (2005)
While animals had followed -- or possibly preceded -- the plants to land, most of them were comparatively small and unalarming. ❋ Unknown (2003)
I want to start doing something other than sleeping past noon and waking up in surprise to find that the little red dot on my unalarming alarm clock has made its way to the "PM" column. ❋ Nspblues (2003)
"In addition, as Wolfie's lawyer, I am advising him that he should, under no circumstances, answer questions until the legal guidelines regarding the interrogation of children are implemented — principally, a full understanding of what he's being questioned about, absence of pressure, unalarming surroundings, and the presence of an adult he knows and trusts." ❋ Walters, Minette (2002)
She shaped a thought herself, a light, unalarming “Hello, who are you?” sort of thought, and directed it gently at the green-jelly mass on the rocks. ❋ Schmitz, James H. (2000)
That body, like gravity, ever acting, with noiseless foot, and unalarming advance, gaining ground step by step, and holding what it gains, is ingulfing insidiously the special governments into the jaws of that which feeds them. ❋ Unknown (1989)
The boy looked back at him for a moment uncertain how to respond, where even this unalarming presence was still an unknown quantity. ❋ Peters, Ellis, 1913- (1989)
The wizard's deep, beautiful voice was gentle and unalarming in the buried stillness of the firelit stone room. ❋ Hambly, Barbara (1986)
There was no lightning that night, only a consort of steady rolls of thunder both before and after Matins and Lauds, so unalarming that many among the brothers failed to notice them. ❋ Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 (1984)
I'd order fleet dispositions modified accordingly, again on an unalarming pretext. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1974)
From somewhere beyond the woods came the distant unalarming plop of a shot-gun. ❋ Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 (1956)
Only downright persuasion by the daughter, combined with remembrance of quite unalarming letters from the son resulted in the desired permission. ❋ Helen Bagg (1935)
In his town hat and gloves, as she saw him go, he seemed tame and unalarming. ❋ Algernon Blackwood (1910)
Sutures that require removal should not be used, according to the Doctor, and the operation thereby becomes a perfectly painless and unalarming performance to the patient in all its details. ❋ Peter Charles Remondino (1886)
Sometimes her mother projected questions concerning the local condition, and although she laboured to be graphic and at the same time soothing, unalarming, her form of reply was always displeasing to the sick woman, and brought forth ejaculations of angry impatience. ❋ Stephen Crane (1885)
All he saw there was a kindly, unalarming countenance, with a full blond beard, and thick blond hair. ❋ Anna Fuller (1884)
Apart from a friendly motive, it seemed to Dick it would be good practice to begin talking to a youth of this unalarming aspect. ❋ Talbot Baines Reed (1872)
