Sentence examples for and modest often from inspiring English sources

The songs sound tuneful and modest, often pared down to just a handful of instruments.

At first glance, the production design (so often a highlight at CSC, whose bare stage and modest resources often bring out the best in designers) is promising.

Meditation retreats, for instance, typically used to involve sleeping in a basic dorm and paying your instructor a modest, often voluntary, fee.

Most transitions are modest, often highly specialised, and constitute the usual developmental pattern of mature science although they may result in important conceptual advances.

Although some people considered her formidable, to those who were close to her she was a shy, modest, often exceedingly kind and generous person.

The selections are woven together with modest, often funny personal reflections.

Accounting irregularities, however modest, often serve as early warning signs of much deeper problems.

All the way along you see a certain kind of car — older, modest, often kind of beat up.

In most large companies, upside opportunities are modest, often topping out at 10% or 20% of base pay.

"The word legend is often over-used in sport but Ben really is one – a determined yet unassuming, modest, often under-recognised legend in this nation's sporting history.

"Quantum Break" asks what happens when you meld sometimes frustrating, occasionally rote gunplay with a modest, often network-style TV series.