Shy, unpretentious men, both drank heavily until they reached the brink of their mental and physical endurance.

When this small, pale, unpretentious man was introduced to the theater's staff as its new director, they reportedly stood and cheered.

"He was a very unpretentious, earnest young man," she said.

And what made this unpretentious man into a great musical patron of the 20th century was his inspired intuition.

His contemporaries described him as an unpretentious man, often seen in "an old macintosh tied with a piece of twine".

He was a warm, friendly, unpretentious man who wore his thinning hair trimmed in a crew cut.

He is an unpretentious man who does everything strictly as a matter of course.

He is a friendly, unpretentious man who comes to fetch his visitors from the reception area himself.

A round, little, unpretentious elderly man, he had to bend over to see with his weak eyes where to place the paper.

Despite the subtitle of his book, "The Autobiography," he comes across as an unpretentious and likable man.