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Quietly and unostentatiously squads of guards slipped from the street cars and formed up in front of the different hotels.
In an architecturally ingenious sleight-of-hand, the old contortedly cramped but sentimentally beloved Theatre Royal, its site expanded by the purchase of several adjacent properties, has made a swanlike interior metamorphosis into the larger (780 seats in the main auditorium), unostentatiously plush, technically state-of-the-art Wexford Opera House.
If he gives an account of his modes of proceeding, and of the views under which they first occurred to his mind, how unostentatiously and in transitu, as it were, does he introduce himself to our notice: and yet never fails to present the living germ out of which the genuine method, as the inner form of the tree of science, springs up
For though it is true that they have been purchasing old works of art for nearly three-quarters of a century and have occasionally been carried away in their anxiety to secure an article of superlative merit, their purchases, on the whole have been cautiously and unostentatiously made and, as a rule, they have avoided publicity in their transactions.
Betty and Bill Weldon lived well, but so unostentatiously that they made the Danforths look flashy.
They fit neatly, unostentatiously, and they are spoken without a hitch.
It unostentatiously established her particular perspective, a view of the world populated by people with quirky jobs who, because of what they do or where they are, confront the facts of life a little differently.
Elspeth Dutch's famous horn solo in the slow movement was unostentatiously communicative (and how we ought to praise the work of "bumper" Martin Wright, taking all the tutti burdens off his section principal so that she can deliver the goods so effectively), brass overall were remarkably compact and cogent, and strings and woodwind sculpted a reading where Tchaikovsky, instead of any interpreters, made the paramount impact.