Sentence examples for a bit of modesty from inspiring English sources

While "the rest of the world responds to it", she said, there is "perhaps a bit of modesty" when it comes to the British embracing their own cinematic tradition.

We along with the rest of the planet are going to suffer it, and the sooner that mind-set is absorbed in Washington — and we adopt a bit of modesty in accepting disasters and some chaos abroad without intervening — the better for our military, our society and the American taxpayer.

Which is a bit of false modesty on his behalf.

"Only comparatively," Carter replies, a bit of cutting modesty that is all the justification he needs.

Revis called Asomugha the best cornerback in the league — which, given Revis's high-profile holdout last season, could be a bit of false modesty to lure Asomugha to the Jets.

This was a charming bit of modesty.

Perhaps Beckett was trying for an uncharacteristic bit of modesty Saturday when he insisted that he had better stuff in his previous start, when he retired the first 10 Yankees batters in what became a Marlins loss in Game 3. Early in Game 6, the velocity on Beckett's fastball was down from his usual average of 97 miles an hour to 95 m.p.h., and his command appeared off by a few inches.

Yesterday, as I was having my first-ever body scrub at a Korean Spa -- a service that is described as "not for any woman who is shy about her body" -- it struck me how having kids has expunged every bit of modesty impressed upon me by my upbringing.

"They both do it all miles better than me and I feel a bit of a fraud at being the one to win an award," she says, with disarming modesty.

A bit of hope.

A bit of decorum.