His parents recall him as a very quiet and unassuming child, who would spend hours drawing in his room:

Michael is the no-nonsense, serious but unassuming leader, Steven the loving, near-groom, pecked at by his mother for not wearing a scarf with his tuxedo and Nick is the quiet, introspective man who loves hunting because, " I like the trees ... you know ... the way the trees are ..." The recurring theme of " one shot ", which is how Michael prefers to take down a deer, is introduced.

After graduating from the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, he served as an instructor in tactics at the Infantry School, where the assistant commandant, Lieutenant Colonel George C. Marshall called him " quiet, unassuming, capable, with sound common sense.

Off the court, Duncan is known for his quiet and unassuming ways, as well as his active philanthropy.

Blah was known as a quiet and unassuming man, driving his own jeep around town rather than using a motorcade and driver, and wearing flowing African robes instead of the normal olive green military uniform.

In his home country of Serbia, he is idolized for his on-court prowess and also revered for his unassuming, humble and quiet way of going about matters off the court.

Gregory Edmond because he was " tall and cool and quiet and unassuming ".

Jones was a quiet and unassuming architect who preferred the quiet isolation of the Arkansas mountains to the urban landscape.

He added, “ I am astonished that a quiet, unassuming fellow like manager Ned Hanlon ever tolerated it in his club.

In December 1895 the Boston Daily Globe published a lengthy biography of Lowe, whom the paper described as Boston's " quiet, unassuming but phenomenal second baseman.

He has been described as " a quiet, unassuming man, gentle as a girl.

After retiring, he went on to run the Dublin Packet pub in Chester, ( Everton and the Dublin Packet commemorates this with memorabilia ) and work at Littlewoods Football pools as a porter at their Walton Hall Avenue offices, where he was remembered by fellow workers as a quiet, unassuming man.

In a quiet, unassuming way, he has won a lot of converts to what he has done.

On and off the pitch Allchurch has been described as ' a gentleman ', with a quiet unassuming manner.

Away from the field, Harvey had a quiet and unassuming manner, in complete contrast to his dynamic batting, and his non-smoking, non-drinking set him apart from the prevailing cricket culture of his period.

He was a good boy, an unassuming and quiet young man, a reliable scout, and at all times of his life he was held in high regard by his people.

He was very quiet and unassuming in manner.

Goodrem described her character as " a quiet, unassuming type of girl ", who does not think anything of her amazing gift.

Frank remained unmarried ; quiet and unassuming, he nevertheless had an enduring passion for the Homeric epics and a firm belief that the myths were history, not fiction.

Haswell was shy and unassuming, with a quiet sense of humour and much appreciation of a good story.

François Pignon, an unassuming divorced man with a teenaged son who ignores him, lives a quiet and unremarkable life.

In fact this quiet and unassuming spiritual work-in particular giving the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola ( a form of guided retreat )-seemed to have had his preference.

Frederick Norton Freeman was known to be a quiet, unassuming gentleman.

And Bill Wisman, forty-three, a farmer's son from Beallsville, Ohio, is a quiet but impressive man.

Now a family man with three children, Fiedler lives in a quiet residential area near the Lockheed plant at Sunnyvale.

This is the tale of one John Enright, an American who has accidentally killed a man in the prize ring and is now trying to forget about it in a quiet place where he may become a quiet man.

In a 1985 interview on Yorkshire Television's Arthur C. Clarke's World of Strange Powers, Elsie said that she and Frances were too embarrassed to admit the truth after fooling Conan Doyle, the author of Sherlock Holmes: " Two village kids and a brilliant man like Conan Doyle – well, we could only keep quiet.

James Thurber described White as being a quiet man, disliking publicity, who during his time at The New Yorker would slip out of his office via the fire escape to a nearby branch of Schrafft's to avoid visitors whom he didn't know.

These contacts were often with the help of Drybow / Dribu, a leader and spokesman of the wig – men, a most intelligent man of goodwill, with a quiet authority that brought forth friendly cooperation.

But the image developed of a man of mystery and a quiet man in black somewhat of a recluse, although I never was, really.

A quiet, gentle man, he was well liked by the residents.

W. T. Cosgrave was a small, quiet man, and at 42 was the oldest member of the Cabinet.

Always reluctant to discuss himself and his art, Hopper simply summed up his art by stating, “ The whole answer is there on the canvas .” Hopper was stoic and fatalistic — a quiet introverted man with a gentle sense of humor and a frank manner.

Walter Burns ( Cary Grant ) is a hard-boiled editor for The Morning Post who learns his ex-wife and former star reporter, Hildegard " Hildy " Johnson ( Rosalind Russell ), is about to marry bland insurance man Bruce Baldwin ( Ralph Bellamy ) and settle down to a quiet life as a wife and mother in Albany, New York.

: Joseph Daniel " Jody " Anderson was a quiet family man who never sought publicity.

The end catchphrase and newsreader characters were devised because Barker found it difficult to appear as himself: Corbett explained that Barker " was a very private man, a quiet man ...

One man wrote in The Argosy: “ With its own symbolic meaning of thought, the pansy is also somewhat endued with a soft shadow, not necessarily of grief, but solemn and quiet, indeed grave, as thought should be .”

Barbie now lives in an apartment block inhabited by her best friend Wanda, a pre-operative trans woman ; the lesbian couple Hazel and Foxglove ; the witch Thessaly ; and a quiet man named George.

In the novel, Lora May ( not Lora Mae ) is less a gold digger than a woman who has always been dominated by her wealthy husband ; Rita is trying to succeed in a second marriage with a man she has never felt passionate about ; and Deborah is a plain and quiet ex-spinster whose " catch " of a husband has been disappointed in her lack of success in society.

Their three children include the eldest son Octave, an intelligent but feckless ladies ' man ( featured as the principal character of two later novels in the cycle, Pot-Bouille ( 1882 ) and Au Bonheur des Dames ( 1883 ), but here little more than a footnote ), as well as the quiet and introverted younger son Serge and the mentally-handicapped daughter Desirée.

Times of hardship or even disaster are ridiculed, and this extends to the Australian delight in dubbing a tall man " Shorty ," a quiet one " Rowdy ," a bald man " Curly " and a redhead " Bluey ".