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As for Reyes’ authorial output, she compares him to the late Chicago film critic Roger Ebert, who fashioned a Pulitzer Prize-winning style that was unshowily erudite and went down smooth.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2023

Baryshnikov, possessed of such expressive grace, conveys all of this unshowily.

From New York Times • Mar. 22, 2023

Rondeau ornamented it so elaborately — though, still, so unshowily — that it felt like yet another variation.

From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2022

Motherhood is, unshowily, one of the recurring motifs of Happy Valley.

From Slate • Aug. 20, 2014

He spends a distressing amount of time at the back of the stage, unshowily keeping time, because there was supposed to be a fourth, official drummer here as well.

From The Guardian • Jan. 16, 2011