Sentence examples for an act of modesty from inspiring English sources

Here simplicity is less an act of modesty than an acknowledgment of other things onstage.

This choice was not an act of modesty, he asserted in an e-mail exchange to set up the lunch.

NEW YORK is the only city in the world where the decision to build a cluster of 50- or 60-story buildings could seem an act of modesty.

A private man behind the public banter, he hid his true feelings, an act of heroic modesty considering his huge potential influence.

Instead of using that time on a project with a preordained objective, he asked, in what might be seen as an act of either modesty or bravura, that the telescope be pointed at a typical patch of sky and left there for the whole period, to see what it could see.The result was the Hubble Deep Field, a fantastically detailed image of a small region in a constellation called Ursa Major.

In a more substantial act of modesty, he led the Argentine church in apologising for its failure to take a more robust line against the military dictatorship.There is plenty for a pope to be humble about, critical observers of the Vatican will say.

We can only thank him for this act of modesty.

The Japanese architect Shigeru Ban is known for his acts of modesty.

To decline this duty would be an act not of judicial modesty but of judicial abdication.

This was a charming bit of modesty.

Among the most appealing traits of a winner is a sense of modesty.