Sentence examples for Modest bearing from inspiring English sources

M.B.Z., fifty-seven, is a former military helicopter pilot, with a modest bearing that belies his influence throughout the Middle East.

Sir (Confirmation Pending) Alastair is the most prolific batsman and second-most successful captain England have had, whose modest bearing and keep‑calm‑and-carry-on demeanour practically demanded its own part in Downton Abbey.

There's a character in that novel called Eugenia McCrea bearing modest, superficial resemblance to my mother, who did not take the characterisation warmly.

As the author of the hostile GestaStephani wrote at the time: "She at once put on an extremely arrogant demeanour instead of the modest gait and bearing proper to the gentle sex and began to walk and speak and do all things more stiffly and more haughtily than she had been wont".

The short story — how modest in bearing!

Poor Alex retreats to his quarters bearing a modest library of texts.

First, here's what not to do: Stamp any and every product bearing even modest risk as dangerous or hazardous.

I arrive at the door bearing a modest tribute: a box of expensive Alphonso mangoes, each in its own D-cup of green tissue paper.

As the actors playing the rock luminaries gradually assemble onstage, each bearing a modest resemblance to the fabled performer he is portraying, a faint air of the animatronic threatens to settle over the proceedings.

With the classical-recording industry still struggling to emerge from the chaos caused by a suffocating glut of the overfamiliar, Mr. Botstein's adventurous programming in recent years seems to have cast him in a modest role of savior, bearing invigorating doses of the "new" and unusual.

Walking around Tate Modern, its open architecture a testament to its commitment to the principle of public access, its transparent collection boxes bearing the modest request "Come back soon please donate £4", its galleries filled with political works of all kinds, it is extremely difficult to imagine anything like this kind of pressure being brought to bear here.