Example Sentences

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For Carroll, when love is treated as fate, people become less willing to do the unshowy work that actually keeps love alive.

From BBC • Feb. 12, 2026

Mr. Skarsgård’s equivocal and unshowy performance—he’s a master of acting without seeming to be acting—creates an ambiguity around Gustav, craftily rendered by the two screenwriters.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

Simmons and Toni Collette star in an unshowy Clint Eastwood production about the limits of American justice, rare in today’s multiplex.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 3, 2024

This remarkable skill, on the scale of opera and under the care of McBurney’s stark, unshowy staging, makes for a high point of Gerhaher’s long, already much-lauded career.

From New York Times • Jul. 11, 2023

In almost all English histories dealing with this period his steadiness and solid unshowy qualities are contrasted with Essex's flightiness and failure, to the natural disadvantage of the latter.

From The Story of Ireland by Lawless, Emily