Sentence examples for a modest image from inspiring English sources
Even as she became more powerful within the neighborhood, Sister Ping cultivated a modest image, avoiding any gaudy trappings of success and working hours that were considered long even in Chinatown.
Other times, the much-needed heart is attempted but not reached, such as Melissa van der Schyff's passionate delivery of "Dirty Dishes," a song by a servant badgered by the police and the media which stretches a modest image to the breaking point.
You want a proper and modest image.
The subtitle of the nearly 11ft-wide canvas that hangs in the gallery of the Louvre reserved for the greatest French history paintings - those large and weighty accounts of public events, among which this is a rather small and modest image - is very specific.
However, his modest image conceals - his supporters would argue - a steely determination to lead his country.
The new code on more modest images will apply only to the covers of the magazines rather than their full content, and campaigners dismissed the move as "a half-measure that doesn't address the harm of these publications".
It would be a modest and minimalist image, almost generic, were it not that the amps, and a telescoped cymbal stand, appear to stretch more than 20 feet into the air.
Artists like Common and Deltron are known to usually concentrate fully on lyrical content, resulting in a more modest, stylish image.
Despite a career as an Oscar and Tony award-winning actor, and perhaps because of her image as a modest, graceful embodiment of womanhood (Bergman had just played Joan Of Arc), her success was eclipsed by her adultery.
In addition, because the pupil has to be small in order to achieve even a modest degree of resolution, the image produced in the Nautilus eye is extremely dim.
Warren E. Buffett, runner-up to Bill Gates on the new Forbes 400 list with a net worth of $41 billion (up $5 billion from last year), possesses a public image of a modest fellow uninterested in tooting his own horn.
