Perhaps he was most taken aback and puzzled by her utter unpretentiousness.
"The Song of Songs"
Hermann Sudermann
There are several which reflect in a very interesting way the Colonial days of early American history; and buildings like those of New Jersey and Virginia, in spite of their unpretentiousness, are very successful.
"The Art of the Exposition"
Eugen Neuhaus
He had intended a restrained and disciplined simplicity, a Puritan unpretentiousness, with those sweet maidens, the Twinkler twins, flitting like modest doves in and out among its tea-tables; but one small thing had been added to another small thing at their suggestion, each small thing taken separately apparently not mattering at all and here it was almost-he hoped it was only his imagination-winking at him.
"Christopher and Columbus"
Countess Elizabeth Von Arnim