Unpretended

Children do not expect to be praized. They would never relax their effort for production. Theirs is a free and unpretended self-expression.

She looked up at Cliff, her face filled with unpretended pleasure.

And she did this with a sincere, unpretended love.

First, is it likely that during this unpretended danger we should obtain a settlement of the power of the Kingddme, princip liy of the Ships, Forts and Armes in the hands of them who are knowne friends ofpublique safety or Liberty, taking it granted that we could finde them.

But it is not feigned on a tabula rasa, as if at random: rather, the declaration of immediate intention appears to be formed in the way a decision is formed, constrained by the (pretended) "fact” that there is the sound of footsteps from the basement, the (un'''pretended) fact that such a sound would now be unlikely if therre weren't an intruder in the basement, the (un'''pretended) awfulness of there being an intruder in the basement, and so forth.

We shall go forth tonight by the heavy coach —like the dove of old, my dear Martin — and it will be a week before we again deposit our olive-branches in the passage. When I say 'olive-branches,' observed Mr. Pecksniff, in explanation, 'I mean our unpretended luggage.'

The front side of the porticoes is shaded by a double-curved eave-cornice of unpretended beauty.

Ilse Aichinger is a master of the “unpretended language.” Her works are marked by their unobtrusiveness and clarity.