unobtrusive
We intend to operate as unobtrusively and efficiently as possible.
Radio has survived because it slips unobtrusively into your domestic routine.
She smiled and unobtrusively pressed a buzzer to summon a doctor.

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fuzzily
fuzziness
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Examples of unobtrusively

unobtrusively
To be sure, meanings, messages and values are often materialized in objects that carry their force more compellingly and unobtrusively than words.
There is a brief programme note projected unobtrusively and further information is available as text message if needed.
Along the way, she unobtrusively renews and questions topics that have been too easily abandoned.
By contrast, the tonal return section of each aria begins unobtrusively, without particularly striking melodic ideas.
She always encouraged, always pushed us along, gently, unobtrusively, always allowed us to make our own decisions.
An astonishing array of props is expertly but unobtrusively manipulated, to manipulate us in turn.
In the fifth episode, the parent returns to the room; the stranger leaves unobtrusively when possible.
Eye-tracking has provided vision science with a powerful tool to unobtrusively monitor on-line perceptual and cognitive processing.
The illustrations of various types of kinship relationships, or household forms, are richly documented unobtrusively with endnotes to the published literature.
The camcorder was mounted on a tripod unobtrusively in the corner of the room and had an unobstructed view of the experimental situation.
It is not simply a titillating but harmless entertainment that provides vicarious moral release while unobtrusively shoring up the normative order.
These sessions were unobtrusively video recorded to enable detailed analyses of the events later on.
Users need to be observed unobtrusively, which requires a system to interpret interactive events as feedback; samples are not reliable and noisy.
The latter begins unobtrusively and, as mentioned above, builds to the cadence at bar 81.
Recently, his main interests have been in creating software tools to help designers, in generating and evaluating innovative design solutions, and unobtrusively capturing the rationale behind their decisions.
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