unflamboyance

English

Noun

unflamboyance (uncountable)

1. The quality of being unflamboyant.
   • 1971 October 17, Clive Barnes, “London Critics Pan U.S. Ballet”, in The Sunday Sun, volume 71, number 42, Baltimore, Md., section D, page 6:

     Both nations respect clarity of line, both styles favor a certain unflamboyance, and both derive from a mixture of the Russian and Italian schools—although the Italian influence is greater in England.

   • 1973 November 8, Donald Davies, “For 3rd Season, Best in Ballet”, in Wisconsin State Journal, volume 218, number 83, Madison, Wis., section 4, page 1:

     But as she dances, it is obvious that it is her security of technique that allows her to do so many things so elegantly, the so-correct placement, the fine balance, the certain unflamboyance that makes her delicate line a memorable and delightful thing to view.

   • 1991, The Wood-Engravings of Blair Hughes-Stanton, page 34:

     I was enormously impressed by the great studio and the quiet strength and unflamboyance of Epstein himself.

   • 2000, Benjamin Filene, “Coda”, in Romancing the Folk: Public Memory & American Roots Music, Chapel Hill, N.C., London: the University of North Carolina Press, →ISBN, page 234:

     When [Pete] Seeger won his spot in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996, he stood out at the gala induction ceremony with a characteristically flamboyant act of unflamboyance, leaving the stage without uttering a word.

   • 2000, “South Africa”, in The Global Encyclopedia of Wine, Global Book Publishing, →ISBN, section “Other South African Regions”, page 481:

     Now, nearly 20 years later, while other cellars are often seen outperforming the Hamilton Russell wines, those who seek unflamboyance and restraint still regard them as industry classics.

   • 2001, Derek Hughes, “Dearth and Famine”, in The Theatre of Aphra Behn, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 160:

     Behn had always associated the bourgeois with age, impotence, miserliness and dreary unflamboyance.