This is the Kurzweil who tells me, as we're sitting in the unostentatious offices of Kurzweil Technologies in Wellesley Hills, Mass.

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Ms Dunmore's beautifully measured, unostentatious prose conveys terrible shudders of feeling.

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Sandy's answer to all this pestering was a shrug or a smile: the trick to doing it was his being the quiet, serious, unostentatious boy that he was.

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