Women were instructed to wear dresses of “surpassing neatness and simplicity,” and respectable urban men were expected to become what a business directory in the 1850s called “the unknown knight, with his plain unostentatious black armor.” ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)
The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by a the elaborate frivolity of chess. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The Secret Millionaire9pm, Channel 4Chris Brown is a gadget-obsessed, self-confessed geek who has made millions from his travel website, but lives an unostentatious, family-based lifestyle and wants to put his wealth to good use. ❋ Martin Skegg (2010)
Shrimpton, dressed in a simple, unostentatious black dress – more bohemian than haute couture – is quick to lament the fashion world's excesses. ❋ Unknown (2011)
It's the sort of solid, unostentatious compound, hidden behind walls, where Afghanistan's old upper-middle class lived in the 1960s and '70s, the Afghan equivalent of WASP. ❋ Ann Marlowe (2010)
The blues singer and guitarist Phillip Walker, who has died aged 73, was one of those intelligent, tasteful, unostentatious musicians who tend to be more appreciated by critics and other players than whooped at by audiences. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Consciously unostentatious though she might be, Attias is fabulously well connected. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Is it unwise for me to gratify a desire for beautiful things, which will be a constant joy to my friends and my children as they grow to appreciate them, as well as to myself, when it is done in so quiet and unostentatious a manner? ❋ Jonathan Lopez (2010)
It is not a “ranch,” as is often misstated his neighbors are close enough to hit him with a rock, but rather a tastefully unostentatious place in a zip code where captains of industry often pay for extras like heated driveways so that their car tires never suffer the inconvenience of snowfall. ❋ MATT LABASH (2010)
The book itself a fine statement of understatement, beautiful presentation, simple, unostentatious design work and concealing I know some very challenging thinking ahead for me. ❋ Unknown (2008)
There are two well-worn chairs by the fireplace in the unostentatious living room, where the devoted couple spent evenings together or entertaining friends, often around the mahogany piano. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Different as they are, Gary Danko and Coi each occupy unostentatious locations in the north of the city, an easy walk apart but separated by worlds of intent and achievement. ❋ Unknown (2009)
A chapter might be written on the good work that man did, and the quiet, unostentatious way in which he did it. ❋ Unknown (2009)
But terror had overpowered the scanty remains of a body once so powerful, and, sensible they were only suffered to remain in this ancient seat by connivance and from compassion, they did not venture upon taking any step which might be construed into an assertion of their ancient rights, contenting themselves with the secret and obscure exercise of their religious ceremonial, in as unostentatious a manner as was possible. ❋ Unknown (2008)
His accoutrements were in the usual unostentatious but clean and servicable order which characterizes these sectaries. ❋ Unknown (2008)
