Sentence examples for a modest kind from inspiring English sources

But it was also a modest kind of boastfulness.

We had fabulous adventures of a modest kind, and loved the travel through all the canals and locks.

I definitely remember thinking: 'Well, I don't know what's going to happen to this National band, but Clogs are gonna be really cool!'" In fact, Clogs remain on Brassland, their albums selling modestly, while the National have become stars, of a modest kind, whose continued success remains crucial to Brassland.

Brag about these sort of things in a modest, kind way and get lots of likes.

The example Marty provides is that even if less savoury aspects of human nature end up leading to popularity, just being a nice, modest, kind person is the best way – and no such guy will end up without being noticed by a sweet girl.

But Muhammadu Buhari, who has been officially sworn in as Nigeria's head of state today after winning presidential elections in March, has vowed to lead a different, more modest kind of lifestyle and to cut down on what he terms "wastages".

But it is remarkable and more interesting that in a marketplace glutted with soldier memoirs — whether of the best-selling kill variety or a much more thoughtful and modest kind — only two literary novels written by soldiers in the war on terror have been released by major imprints.

And five years ago, a splintered court delivered the coup de grâce when it decreed that a school district couldn't voluntarily opt for the most modest kind of integration — giving parents a choice of which school their children would attend and treating race as a tiebreaker in deciding which children would go to the most popular schools.

But the cruelty of a mid-March storm, even the modest kind that hit yesterday, is usually psychological.

He was a modest and kind person with impeccable integrity, and was devoted to his family.

About the backlash that imperial power can stir he writes, "This did not stop the British from torturing and massacring their colonial subjects from time to time, but they did so in a modest, unassuming kind of way, as though they were offering them a much sought-after service".