Adjective : an alarming case of pneumonia; an alarming lack of respect. From Dictionary.com.
From somewhere beyond the woods came the distant unalarming plop of a shot-gun. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Fool]
I'd order fleet dispositions modified accordingly, again on an unalarming pretext. From Wordnik.com. [A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows]
The wizard's deep, beautiful voice was gentle and unalarming in the buried stillness of the firelit stone room. From Wordnik.com. [The Silent Tower]
I'd been expecting this, though I'd tried to make my message as unalarming as possible without lessening the urgency of it. From Wordnik.com. [Twilight]
While animals had followed -- or possibly preceded -- the plants to land, most of them were comparatively small and unalarming. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
The boy looked back at him for a moment uncertain how to respond, where even this unalarming presence was still an unknown quantity. From Wordnik.com. [The Heretic's Apprentice]
She shaped a thought herself, a light, unalarming “Hello, who are you?” sort of thought, and directed it gently at the green-jelly mass on the rocks. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Federation Of The Hub]
There was no lightning that night, only a consort of steady rolls of thunder both before and after Matins and Lauds, so unalarming that many among the brothers failed to notice them. From Wordnik.com. [The Pilgrim of Hate]
I want to start doing something other than sleeping past noon and waking up in surprise to find that the little red dot on my unalarming alarm clock has made its way to the "PM" column. From Wordnik.com. [nspblues Diary Entry] Reference
That body, like gravity, ever acting, with noiseless foot, and unalarming advance, gaining ground step by step, and holding what it gains, is ingulfing insidiously the special governments into the jaws of that which feeds them. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)] Reference
"In addition, as Wolfie's lawyer, I am advising him that he should, under no circumstances, answer questions until the legal guidelines regarding the interrogation of children are implemented — principally, a full understanding of what he's being questioned about, absence of pressure, unalarming surroundings, and the presence of an adult he knows and trusts.". From Wordnik.com. [Fox Evil]
In his town hat and gloves, as she saw him go, he seemed tame and unalarming. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Whom the Trees Loved] Reference
All he saw there was a kindly, unalarming countenance, with a full blond beard, and thick blond hair. From Wordnik.com. [Peak and Prairie From a Colorado Sketch-book] Reference
Those tests discovered unalarming levels, and they concluded there was not a widespread health concern. From Wordnik.com. [Sierra Sun - Top Stories] Reference
Only downright persuasion by the daughter, combined with remembrance of quite unalarming letters from the son resulted in the desired permission. From Wordnik.com. [Across the Mesa] Reference
Sutures that require removal should not be used, according to the Doctor, and the operation thereby becomes a perfectly painless and unalarming performance to the patient in all its details. From Wordnik.com. [History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance] Reference
He could not, perhaps, throw off the Dominie altogether on such occasions, but he always tried hard, and if there had been no one more formidable than "Paddy" to deal with the meal would have been comparatively pleasant and unalarming. From Wordnik.com. [The Willoughby Captains] Reference
If I can bring myself to believe that the real Sotomayor is the unalarming judge suggested by her testimony and judicial record, I will support her nomination -- but without enthusiasm, because of three major misgivings that her testimony did nothing to allay. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
Sometimes her mother projected questions concerning the local condition, and although she laboured to be graphic and at the same time soothing, unalarming, her form of reply was always displeasing to the sick woman, and brought forth ejaculations of angry impatience. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Regiment] Reference
Perceiving that his ex-mother-in-law was reaching stage of exaltation that was not unalarming, Cerizet hastened to get away, her epithets pursuing him for more than a hundred feet; but he comforted himself by thinking that he would make her pay for them the next time she came to his back to ask for a "convenience.". From Wordnik.com. [The Lesser Bourgeoisie] Reference
A brief and, as it seemed at first, unalarming illness at one of her employer's country houses to which she had been amiably sent down for a holiday. From Wordnik.com. [The Head of the House of Coombe] Reference
If the United States government is unable to assemble evidence of guilt (including conspiracy to provide material assistance, which criminalizes even unalarming plots in their embryonic stages) with all its staggering resources devoted to counterterrorism, including huge bounties for informants, then the suspect is probably innocent. ". From Wordnik.com. [William Fisher: A Hobbesian Choice for Obama?] Reference
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