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Unpretentiousness

noun
1.
The quality of being natural and without pretensions.





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"Unpretentiousness" Quotes from Famous Books



... notes and essays are called Ponkapog Papers not simply because they chanced, for the most part, to be written within the limits of the old Indian Reservation, but, rather, because there is something typical of their unpretentiousness in the modesty with which Ponkapog assumes to being even a village. The little Massachusetts settlement, nestled under the wing of the Blue Hills, has no illusions concerning itself, never mistakes the cackle of the bourg for ...
— Ponkapog Papers • Thomas Bailey Aldrich
... strain that lodges longest in the heart. Mr. Locker's strains are never precisely simple. The gay enchantment of the world and the sense of its bitter disappointments murmur through all of them, and are fatal to their being simple, but the unpretentiousness of a London Lyric ...
— In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays • Augustine Birrell


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