Example Sentences

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Neither of them looked at the pictures; but to Claudia those unobtruding presences seemed suddenly to press upon them and force them apart.

From Crucial Instances by Wharton, Edith

Yet surely the neglect and even odium in which the unobtruding man of genius is at present overwhelmed, is a damning accusation against the rich and titled great.

From The Adventures of Hugh Trevor by Holcroft, Thomas

If the building be not of wood, the walls may be built of anything which will give them a quiet and unobtruding warmth of tone.

From The Poetry of Architecture Or, the Architecture of the Nations of Europe Considered in its Association with Natural Scenery and National Character by Ruskin, John

No strong, no vivid colours are here—all is the quiescent modesty, the unobtruding magic of half-tones.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 by Various

Mr. Draper was not alarmed at it; it was very unobtruding, and he p. 24had become used to it. 

From Rich Enough a tale of the times by Lee, Hannah Farnham Sawyer