Sentence examples for a modest manner from inspiring English sources

A modest manner belied a detachment that shaded into arrogance.

Though he has a modest manner, he has been a galvanizing force at the Philharmonic.

But unlike Schrempp, he has the reputation for being someone with a modest manner and an ability to listen.

The Prospero will be Marcelo Gomes, a big, handsome Brazilian with a modest manner and a gorgeous technique.

A newspaper run by the Chinese Communist Party, the Global Times, said Mr Osborne was right not to question China, "keeping a modest manner".

He defied the odds spectacularly and raised more than £500,000 for charity in the following years, completing a series of increasingly demanding physical tasks – always in a modest manner with a self-deprecating joke and an infectious smile.

Cobb has a thoughtful, modest manner, and sometimes speaks so softly that you can barely hear him, but he has great determination — probably an attractive combination for Goldman.

He has the same scattering of a few unruly hairs at the front of his neat part, the same quietly ambitious drive beneath a shy, modest manner.

It also meets (ii), relative durability, although in a rather modest manner.

Mutant female responses to receipt of SP were altered in a relatively modest manner.

She had an apologetic, modest manner that concealed an underlying strength.