unshouting
adjEtymology From un- + shouting.
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Not shouting; quiet, calm, unassuming, etc.
- Frank Sinatra, followed like a Pied Piper by a procession of sober-faced disciples, unshouting and undemonstrative for a change, hurried to St. Patrick's Cathedral to offer his prayers.1968, Louis Sobol, The Longest Street, page 134:
- There was a subtlety, an unshouting elegance about her, that was especially attractive in one so young.1984, Nancy Holmes, The Big Girls, page 26:
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- It makes for a set of quiet images, unshouting in their focus on the thickly laid and deeply entrenched scars of social and political shifts.2008, ArtSouthAfrica, volume 5, number 2, page 74: