Sentence examples for a modest view from inspiring English sources

But then, Cruz is a man with a modest view of his own historical importance.

But at the end of the chapter we are given this consolation: "True wisdom must involve an accommodation with our baser selves, it must adopt a modest view about the role that intelligence and high culture can play in any life and accept the urgent and at times deeply unedifying demands of our mortal frame".

Dretske (1986), expresses a "modest" view when he gives voice to the hope that more sophisticated representations can be built out of the simple sensory-perceptual representations his theory accommodates.

The Cistercian "white monks" (wearing undyed habits) first chose a site in Murel (now called Carrascosa de Tajo) on the Tagus, but after a few years, had to relocate to more fertile zone a few miles nearer to Trillo, Guadalajara, where a flat hilltop by the river commanded a modest view.

In contrast to the people's forum two weeks ago, which was broadcast on Sky to what Fairfax called "a modest viewing audience", the hour-long debate at the National Press Club in Canberra will be shown live on the ABC.

It would doubtless be better in future for America to embark on such adventures, if at all, with a clearer view of the costs, less faith in a military "cakewalk" and a more modest view of what force can achieve.

While fans marvel at what he strings together, Alameddine takes a more modest view.

David Rosenthal has defended the view that the HOT must actually be occurring at the time of consciousness, while Peter Carruthers has argued for a more modest view according to which the agent must simply be disposed to have the relevant HOT.

Meanwhile, he suggests that the United States might learn something from Europe, where government budget caps on health care, price controls and far less news media frenzy about medical breakthroughs combine with widespread deference to a more modest view in the medical profession about what constitutes appropriate treatments.

A more modest view recommends that philosophers make use of results from sciences studying cognition to resolve epistemological issues.

Ancient philosophers, who shared a more modest view of immediate experience's cognitive claims than the early moderns', accordingly made freer use of the biology of their day (regardless of whether they were dualists or materialists in their metaphysics) in their thinking about what kind of thing pleasure is.