unpretentiousness

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Noun
  • Several applauded Clark’s transparency and sincerity.
    Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Critics after the screening agreed that when given a character perfectly tailored to his strengths (cocky sincerity, charismatic twerpiness), Timmy is a live wire.
    Joe Reid, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The recording of that release as depicted in the documentary is the balancing light to the overwhelming dark Osbourne experienced in his later years, a series of illnesses, hospitalizations, frustrations and ceaseless pain shown with unblinking frankness.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Collier, who was injured during the playoff series, read from a prepared statement that shocked everyone watching—if not for its contents, for its frankness.
    Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Her question, in Lipe-Smith’s inquisitive piccolo of a voice, is heartbreaking in its blend of straightforwardness and desperate desire, as is her mother’s wavering response.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Norway’s eventual dominant win, with two Haaland headers completing his hat-trick in the second half, was a just outcome for an Israel team beset by openness and poor organisation.
    Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Gandolfini gets the best moments in the film, and Roberts’s interactions are marked by her openness.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • On a humid evening in May, Patricia Lockwood, who writes with the impish verve and provocative guilelessness of a peeing cupid, was scanning the menu at a Mexican restaurant near her home, in Savannah, Georgia.
    Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • They were granted anonymity for their candor.
    Antonio Morales, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Let’s begin with candor about capability.
    MSNBC Newsweek, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Gilbert’s colloquial style, once a source of great pleasure, has tipped into new territory—an ingenuousness that blends guru and disciple, mother and child.
    Jia Tolentino, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • An accurate line design directly affects the naturalness of the hair transplant results.
    Lyssanoel Frater, IndyStar, 6 Oct. 2025
  • But the movie is a sweet star showcase that belongs unequivocally to the incandescent Maura, whose earthy naturalness, sly humor and tenacious spirit feed a direct link back to her Almodóvarian glory days.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 3 Oct. 2025
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“Unpretentiousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unpretentiousness. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.

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