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In the finished film Rogers' unassumed self-consciousness helps to make sharper his portrait of an Oklahoma oil man who takes his family to Paris to get background.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Let us hope . . . !" he said, with unassumed penitence on behalf of his inscrutable daughter.

From The Egoist by Meredith, George

They would not let me feel that I was a stranger, and set me at my ease in a moment with a warmth which was evidently unassumed.

From The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses by Froude, James Anthony

There remained an air of unassumed sincerity about herself and all her actions, including even her dress, which absolutely excluded her from hostile criticism.

From The Crack of Doom by Cromie, Robert

The vicomte could see perfectly well that Victor's gaiety was natural and unassumed; that the past held him but loosely, since this past held the vision of an ax.

From The Grey Cloak by Peirce, Thomas Mitchell