Sentence examples for almost modest from inspiring English sources

Alas, this is almost Modest Proposal territory.

By comparison, the enormous price seems almost modest.

One of the flower paintings is almost modest in size.

Even those reductions, however, seem almost modest compared with some recent proposals.

Compared with the truly colossal 360g bar, the still-massive 110g looks almost modest.

When the actors quickly strip to their expensive looking underwear, shielded by a crane, it seems almost modest.

Elected leader of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) on Monday, he's now the country's new prime minister – their sixth in the past five years, and almost certainly the most modest of the lot.

In public, he is almost theatrically modest.

On campus, she cut an almost exaggeratedly modest figure.

But the characters themselves are bit players, whose insights seem almost intentionally modest and limited.

Nor did it help that his works were almost always modest in size and made with highly developed traditional skills.