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unassumingly

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The two performances, by Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall, are unassumingly superb, and the film serves as a uniquely touching tribute to Hujar, who died of AIDS-related complications at age 53 in 1987.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 15, 2025

For nearly five decades, the record-breaking painting unassumingly adorned the walls of a Norwegian hospital, overlooked and undervalued.

From BBC • Mar. 28, 2025

Is that one in the corner, unassumingly spinning its web, venomous?

From New York Times • Aug. 25, 2022

Memory, by choice or by accident, fails the aching characters in director Christos Nikou’s unassumingly superb first feature “Apples,” executive produced by Cate Blanchett, in which an epidemic of sudden amnesia sweeps across Greece.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 23, 2022

Quietly, unassumingly Rumbold stepped on to the scaffold in faultless morning dress and wearing his favourite flower, the Gladiolus Cruentus.

From Ulysses by Joyce, James