How to Use unshowy in a Sentence

unshowy

adjective

• Bezucha’s style is unshowy, using the beauty of the natural landscape.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 4 Nov. 2020
• But then came Mr Phillips (2000), an unshowy third-person narrative about a day in the life of a middle-aged accountant.
  — James Walton, The New York Review of Books, 1 July 2021
• But the movies, both shot by cinematographer Ki Jin Kim, are of a piece in their emotional nuance and unshowy sense of place.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2020
• This is a hotel for grownups that manages to be at once grandly historical and unshowy.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 May 2018
• The cast is uniformly excellent, in a suitably unshowy but fully lived-in way.
  — New York Times, 22 Feb. 2022
• To the casual observer, the cadre style is unremarkable, because being unshowy is part of the point.
  — Christian Shepherd, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2022
• If that all sounds vaguely gory and Hollywood, please read it, once, twice, three times, because Trevor’s genius is varied, unshowy and profound.
  — Katherine A. Powers, WSJ, 11 May 2018
• In contrast to the corruption that surrounds him, Suiter does his job with unshowy integrity.
  — New York Times, 29 Apr. 2022
• Rucker has one of the most distinctive male voices in country — a rich-as-molasses baritone with a hint of unshowy soulfulness.
  — Jon Bream, Star Tribune, 19 June 2021
• My favorite horror movies this year laid off the flashy effects and instead gave me the unshakable willies the unshowy way: with creeping dread and uncertain stillness.
  — Devika Girish, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2022
• One of this novel’s striking achievements is to offer murky conjecture in crisp, dry, stately (yet unshowy) prose.
  — Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2021
• Then there’s Wesolowski’s deft, unshowy rhythm guitar playing.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 10 Aug. 2023
• Even the camera, which generally serves the story in as fluid and unshowy a way as possible, can’t help but be magnetized by the sheer dynamism of Foxx’s screen presence.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2023
• All of this is captured with an unshowy assurance of craft, from the simplicity of the performances to the glow of Lachlan Milne’s cinematography to Emile Mosseri’s evocative score, which seems to rise from the earth itself.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Feb. 2021
• While the marvelous Garcia is the heart of the movie, her unshowy performance strikes an exquisite balance with the more gregarious manner of Claudio Rissi in what's largely a two-hander.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 May 2017
• Yet those who know him describe a man of unshowy modesty and collegiality, with little discernible pretension.
  — Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2017
• Here he’s abetted by Daktse Dundrup’s excellent art direction and a production-design approach full of odd but unshowy quirks: stopped clocks, grimy fingernails, stale bread hardened and frozen to the texture of bone.
  — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 9 Nov. 2021
• Viggo Mortensen and Colin Farrell give admirably unshowy star performances.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Dec. 2022
• Strout’s prose, unshowy, sparing of metaphor but vivid with both necessary and contingent detail, matches her democracy of subject and theme, and seems agile enough to describe any human situation.
  — Pankaj Mishra, The New York Review of Books, 20 Oct. 2021
• The unshowy, nearly flat surface of her writing is rippled by patterns of repetition: an understatement that, like Hemingway’s, attains its own kind of drama.
  — New York Times, 23 Dec. 2021
• Sparkes draws a quiet, unshowy performance from Lefler as an innocent who’s trying to sort out truth from lies, and who feels a sense of responsibility and importance beyond her years, along with dispiriting guilt when her powers fail her.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Sep. 2023
• As other scholars have noted, images like this one coincided with a growing distaste for fake, look-at-me bourgeois society; there was a hunger for good, plain people absorbed in plain, unshowy things, inviting viewers to forget themselves, too.
  — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2023
• Kingsley, outfitted with a horribly unflattering wig and glasses, never once winks to the audience with his dignified, unshowy performance that is all the more effective for its restraint.
  — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Aug. 2023
• Schrader’s directorial manner is tightly restrained, spare and unshowy, not even conspicuous in its austerity, but marked by a sleek and fragile tension that suggests a volcano that’s ready to blow just beneath the surface.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2023
• As Hildy keeps Chris company while Carol avoids him, Dever's vulnerable, unshowy performance makes this truly a three-person drama.
  — John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Sep. 2017
• Soprano Jamie Chamberlin sang the demanding high tessitura role of Isolde with unshowy reserve.
  — Rick Schultz, latimes.com, 16 May 2018
• Hickok and Eleanor shared political and social ideas, but their personalities were very different: Eleanor was modest and unshowy, well educated and from polite society.
  — Mary Kaye Schilling, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2018
• Shot primarily in Manitoba, the U.S. production has sturdy, handsome, unshowy design elements that reinforce its tonal slant as more a depressing tale of very bad familial luck than an overt dive into the fantastical.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 24 Jan. 2023
• With breathtaking deliberation and quiet, unshowy mastery, [Aster] spins a devastating portrait of an American family in sudden, inexplicable decline .
  — Mark Olsen, latimes.com, 10 June 2018

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024