Example Sentences

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They just change their tactics and the movie stays toughly, undemonstratively onside with the CIA good guys.

From The Guardian • Jan. 24, 2013

Instead, Preminger deftly and undemonstratively evokes the shortcomings of the system, its failure to account for aspects of human behavior that defy rationality, that contradict self-interest and confound tidy chains of cause and effect.

From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2012

He brought a lot of pain to the role, undemonstratively, holding it in, with not a hint of self pity.

From The Guardian • May 25, 2010

Though Eugene dearly, if undemonstratively, loves his family, he announces the members of the household like coming attractions he would rather not see.

From Time Magazine Archive

He welcomed me undemonstratively, but with evident sincerity; and there was an entire absence of the constraint which often accompanies the meeting again of friends whose cordial relations have suffered interruption.

From The Lost Stradivarius by Falkner, John Meade