All 3 Uses of
unobtrusive
in
War and Peace
- Some unobtrusive touch had been added to Mademoiselle Bourienne's toilet which rendered her fresh and pretty face yet more attractive.†
Chpt 3 *unobtrusive = fitting in so as not to attract much attention or disturb
- Only then will our order have the power unobtrusively to bind the hands of the protectors of disorder and to control them without their being aware of it.†
Chpt 6unobtrusively = in a manner that fits in so as not to attract much attention or disturb
- Those who went away, taking what they could and abandoning their houses and half their belongings, did so from the latent patriotism which expresses itself not by phrases or by giving one's children to save the fatherland and similar unnatural exploits, but unobtrusively, simply, organically, and therefore in the way that always produces the most powerful results.†
Chpt 11