Sentence examples for basically modest from inspiring English sources

He was basically modest and immune to wealth and luxury, though both were his for the asking.

Paul Chevedden, a professor at Central Washington University, entertained a group at the bar one night this year with a presentation entitled: "Climax at Long Range: The Male Member and the Crusades", an examination of the phallic nature of the catapult.For all this, the medievalists are a basically modest lot.

Basically, Modest helps small businesses create quickly create stores in the form of mobile apps.

All of which is a pretty good reason to do something like index Social Security benefits to the actual cost of living for seniors, or lift the $113,700 cap on income that is taxed for Social Security -- which are basically the modest reforms sought by those who want to "expand Social Security".

He identified Pervez Musharraf ("My distinct impression of him is he's basically a humble, modest man who lives a fairly Spartan life") and Nicolas Sarkozy (whose name he pronounced "Secorsi") as leaders who could, in time, merit inclusion in a sequel.

The study basically showed a modest, positive association between butter intake as an isolated variable and all-cause mortality; and a modest, negative association with diabetes.

Basically, it delivers modest speed increases and lots of desirable little goodies.

Sometimes an egg pasta will sneak into the mix, like the wide pappardelle in a lamb sauce or the narrow tagliatelle with a rich Bolognese, but his aesthetic is basically the same: modest portions of noodles cooked to a point just past al dente, and sauces fortified with a bit of butter, a touch of sharp cheese and a healthy pinch of salt.

Basically, this was a modest experiment in Palestinian self-government, starting with the Gaza Strip and the West Bank town of Jericho.

For the HRC-I, the corrections are more modest, with improvement basically in the pre-existing bias toward overestimated degap corrections near the gap boundaries.

College graduates have made only modest gains, and basically nothing after 2000; even advanced degrees weren't giving anything like the gains we see for the top 1 percent (and the much bigger gains of the top 0.1 percent).