Sentence examples for a modest vein from inspiring English sources

He could also benefit from what some Republicans see as a modest vein of Bush nostalgia, marked by a video shown at the Republican National Convention about his father, who is 88 and contending with a form of Parkinson's disease and declining health.

Abrams, who is in Britain to promote Star Trek Into Darkness, said he had planned to follow it with something in a more modest vein.

In addition, these plants produced small, but flattened, leaves with distinct blade and petiole, a modest reduction in leaf vein pattern, and bleached cotyledons.

Take a modest proposal.

Here's a modest proposal.

A modest little house designed.

It had a modest impact.

It is a modest proposition.

A modest backlash was inevitable.

Loretta is a modest prosecutor".

He was a modest man.