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• n  the quality of not sticking out in an unwelcome way

• But I think that Merkel, 52, will push reform to the point of inevitability, softening her determination by unobtrusiveness and an aura of competence.
• Scythelike noses have been bobbed into gentile unobtrusiveness, Talmudic scholars replaced by star athletes and Socialist singers of .
• Of all ways to get ahead in the Hearst empirebeyond the first essential, obedienceGorty chose one of the shrewdest: unobtrusiveness.

• obtrusiveness

News & Articles

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• A Clever Key Ring That Doubles As An iPhone Stand
  Smartphones work hard, and they work even harder for the growing number of mobile evangelists who those four–inch gadgets to become the one and only computer they need. Trouble is, you'd be hard–pressed to find a dock or stand that travels with the same unobtrusiveness as your slimmed–down phone. That recurring necessity––to constantly have a dock at hand––prompted Belgian designer Alain Berteau ...
  Sept. 26, 2013 - Fast Company Magazine

Quotes

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• Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala in Independent
  What I love is his unobtrusiveness, his simplicity, his humility,Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, a former Nigerian minister and panel judge, said.
• Henry Kissinger in United Press International
  Kissinger said he was confident that Merkel "will push reform to the point of inevitability, softening her determination by unobtrusiveness and an aura of competence. If that happens, Merkel will have become a German equivalent of Britain's Lady...