She was more like the goddess next door-sweetand pretty in an unpretentious way.

He had come there in an unpretentious way, and he wished to leave as quietly.

But in its unpretentious way, The Descent sets about defying some recently formed, deeply unwelcome horror orthodoxies.

Yet she had often been to the opera, but in an unpretentious way-inthe second tier of boxes.

But both seemed to be confident and comfortable in the unpretentious way of people who really knew their job well.

Television veteran Tom Verlaine has gone his own unpretentious way for years, quietly turning out superlative albums and occasionally touring.

Compared to the others, he had a quiet, unpretentious way of standing, but just at that moment, Grace resented it.

In my mind's eye there is the case of the Mudge-Jervises, which in an unpretentious way has quite an Enoch Arden intensity underlying it.