"What appealed to me most was the pumpkin's generous unpretentiousness," she wrote.
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This cozy Nolita wine bar's intimidating mouthful of a nom belies its unpretentiousness and approachability.
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The joint is beautiful in its unpretentiousness—all you need to make one is some paper and some bud.
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The parties "were often pretentious in their unpretentiousness," serving things like fried chicken and coleslaw, according to the magazine.
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Critics attribute Ms Wang's popularity with aficionados and casual fans alike to her unpretentiousness, her "élan and daring" and her sheer power.
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Runners know Linden as much for her unpretentiousness and her dogged work ethic as for her epic win in a freezing monsoon at the 2018 Boston Marathon.
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Japan has been charmed by Osaka's off-court humility and genuineness as much as her on-court ferocity and that unpretentiousness came through in her post-match comments.
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This unpretentiousness is carried through the Kolumba, where the grainy concrete walls are a uniformly soft, warm grey, creating a neutrality that is indifferent to the standard coldness of white museum walls.
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At a Dean & DeLuca in Midtown, Mr. Gold talked about his "longstanding interest in simplicity, unpretentiousness and theater that travels unstable boundaries where fiction and reality blur into one another," according to the email.
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Don't get me wrong, Rich had a great eye, and a very sensitive, intuitive understanding of art, but there was a hands-on Midwestern unpretentiousness in his attitude (he grew up in Ohio), and an ability to speak a common language that was disarming.
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There's a refreshing unpretentiousness to these sections: The brothers are unabashed fans of kitsch like "The Karate Kid Part II" and the soft-rock duo Air Supply, and their close-knit kinship turns poignant when Jay has an emotional breakdown as a student at the University of Texas at Austin and Mark, still in high school, travels there to take care of him.
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You can't imitate unaffectedness and unpretentiousness and such peculiar brilliance in the classroom or on the page.
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In addition to courteousness and sobriety mentioned earlier, meliorating formal virtues include politeness, decency, modesty, hospitableness, and unpretentiousness.
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I did not find anything more relieving to me than sitting with scholars and exchanging knowledge with them.Al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-kamal, xxxv. 355 Umm al- Darda has shown the piety, modesty and unpretentiousness both in her daily life and teaching asking no fee for delivering knowledge and living on the basis of charitable gifts.
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Annemarie is a spirited and lively child, similar to Der Trotzkopf (literally: "The Stubborn Head") of author Emmy von Rhoden. Ilse Macket, von Rhoden's heroine, is a predecessor of Else Ury's Nesthäkchen, Annemarie Braun. Ilse, like Annemarie, is vivacious and frequently disobedient. Ilse is popular nevertheless, not because of tedious learned virtues, but because of her kindness, honesty and unpretentiousness.
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11, p. 184.—Hazlitt to a considerable degree interweaves personal elements into his account of Lamb. Charles Lamb, by William Hazlitt, 1804 Lamb's shyness and unpretentiousness, combined with his personal convictions and critical taste, along with his antiquarian preferences, Hazlitt explains, have led him away from the fashions of the day. In his writing as "Elia", he "has borrowed from previous sources",Hazlitt 1930, vol.
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Bobby is drawn to her unpretentiousness as opposed to most young women living in Hollywood, and falls deeply in love with her. She rebuffs his advances, telling him she has a journalist boyfriend named Doug. In reality, "Doug" is Phil, with whom Vonnie is carrying on an illicit romance; he promises to divorce his wife and marry her. On the first-year "paper anniversary" of their affair, Vonnie gives Phil a letter written and signed by Rudolph Valentino as a gift.
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While admitting his fondness for the group's previous "Beatle rip-offs", Niester opined: "Badfinger would be better off doing twelve of the Beatles' greatest hits and doing them without all this pretension of originality." Other contemporary reviews compared Straight Up to past works by the Beatles in a more favourable light. Beat Instrumental described the album as "a good 'un", and Jim Girard of Scene recognised "Perfection" and "Sometimes" as possible singles and said that Badfinger's "importance lies in their unpretentiousness and commercial potency".
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Throughout his career, Herbert was well liked by orchestra players for his modesty and unpretentiousness. Herbert continued to compose orchestral music, writing one of his finest works, the Cello Concerto No. 2 in E minor, Op. 30, which premiered in 1894. In 1898, Herbert became the principal conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony, a position he held until 1904. Under his leadership, the orchestra became a major American ensemble and was favorably compared by music critics with ensembles like the New York Philharmonic and Boston Symphony Orchestra.
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Here is a movie so fresh and funny it didn't even need a big budget or a pedigree." The Variety magazine review concluded that "though its plot wins no points for originality, Breaking Away is a thoroughly delightful light comedy, lifted by fine performances from Dennis Christopher and Paul Dooley." Critic Dave Kehr, however, gave a later, somewhat dissenting opinion: "Released at a time when any small-scale film earned critical favor simply by virtue of its unpretentiousness, Breaking Away probably looked better in context than it does now." However, he conceded that "Peter Yates lends the film a fine, unexpected limpidity, and the principals are mostly excellent.
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"Either/Or Part II P. 225-226 And now the many to whom the Baptizer's exalted example is entirely applicable, although in unpretentiousness, he many who at an early age are given to understand humbly that for them the form of a servant is not something assumed, those who at and early age are prompted to bear in mind that for them there is someone who must increase while they decrease.Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses, Hong, p. 281 He uses another single individual, John the Baptist to talk about "the rising and setting of the sun." He says, "all deeper and more inward self-knowledge sees the finger of God that points to him.
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The work has been well-received by critics. Calling Hutton "one of the most richly humane voices in contemporary theater," F. Kathleen Foley of Los Angeles Times described As It Is in Heaven as “amusing, intellectually stimulating and moving – a beautifully crafted piece that will endure.” The critic of The Village Voice, Alexis Soloski, noted that "the scenes of the women working and living together are wonderful for their very Shaker-like qualities: simplicity, unpretentiousness, attention to detail," although Soloski claims that the playwright "weaves in a dramatic arc that never seems as finely worked as the rest of the play." Anita Gates in The New York Times, reviewing the New York revival, described As It Is in Heaven as a "modest, strangely moving one-act," which "is also an unexpected patchwork of high and low cultural influences," including The Age of Innocence, The Crucible and even The Book of Mormon.
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Calling Hutton "one of the most richly humane voices in contemporary theater," F. Kathleen Foley of The Los Angeles Times described As It Is in Heaven as “amusing, intellectually stimulating and moving – a beautifully crafted piece that will endure.” Reviewing the original New York production, Brooke Pierce of TheaterMania noted that the "90-minute, bare bones production... is moved along smoothly... to its satisfying and inspiring conclusion." The critic of The Village Voice, Alexis Soloski, noted that "the scenes of the women working and living together are wonderful for their very Shaker-like qualities: simplicity, unpretentiousness, attention to detail," although Soloski claims that the playwright "weaves in a dramatic arc that never seems as finely worked as the rest of the play." Anita Gates in The New York Times, reviewing the New York revival, described As It Is in Heaven as a "modest, strangely moving one-act," which "is also an unexpected patchwork of high and low cultural influences," including The Age of Innocence, The Crucible and even The Book of Mormon.
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