Sentence examples for a modest delight from inspiring English sources
(Ages 3 to 6) Here's a modest delight for urban cliff dwellers.
His face creases ruddily into modest delight and he stamps his thin feet in glee".
This city's streets are aburst with fragments of greatness (or oddness: it almost comes to the same thing), and the AIA Guide, dedicated as it is to an aesthetic of modest delights more than knockout masterpieces, does a wonderful job of pointing them out.
For all his ceremonial qualities, the Charles I knew — C.R., as he was called at the Morgan — was a modest man, delighted by the success of his students and perpetually flushed with enthusiasm.
He's not one of your magisterial, Oscar Peterson-style virtuosi, relying more on wit, rhythmic sleight of hand and lightness of touch, but his improvisations are full of modest delights.
A decade later he is still griping about the events on the title track of the Some Girls album – "Some girls give me cheeld-run … Ah never asked them faw" (Norman's phonetic translation of Jagger's preposterous Delta-blues-bad-boy singing voice is one of the book's modest delights).
Maurice Goudeket, Colette's third husband, has written a modest little memoir called "The Delights of Growing Old". Shortly after her death, he published "an intimate portrait," "Close to Colette," which told of their years together.
I saw it at a Czech film festival in New York City and was delighted when it got a modest theatrical release.
The New York Times called the film "a modest little Vermont-made farce" that "surprised and delighted" the audiences "by boisterously affirming that life can be a ball and movie-making can be fun".
Here's a modest proposal.
