Sentence examples for become modest from inspiring English sources

Since a marginally quieter spell in the mid-90s, she has become – modest, concentrated, imbued always with a deep common sense and rarely less than thoroughly watchable – what she now readily describes as "a part of the family" in France.

Suddenly, the woman who only moments before had been skating from one side of the stage to the other and making cat's eyes at the audience became modest and subdued.

In 1996 then governor Laurence Meyer defined it thus:Under this strategy, once inflation becomes modest, as today, Federal Reserve policy in the near term focuses on sustaining trend growth at full employment at the prevailing inflation rate.

If tax evasion is demonstrably combated, justice is fully served in the cases of the criminally irresponsible uber-rich, the weaker social strata are protected and the political elite becomes modest and transparent, this might actually work.

Associations appeared to persist beyond this time, but after 15 years, effects became modest.

Unexpectedly, at 100 days in cell culture the reactivation became modest.

In the postpubertal stages, however, most of these phenotypic influences became modest or undetectable, except for the presence of a hyperdopaminergic state in the globus pallidus [ 58]; tyrosine hydoxylase-positive fibers and varicosities were denser in the lateral regions of the globus pallidus of EGF-injected rats, compared with vehicle-injected rats.

But on the positive side I have become more modest.

Thus, Mr. Lugar has probably become a modest underdog to retain his seat.

"I become less modest when I see people taking away the things I had done".

Disney instead hired Mr. Hancock, whose first film, "The Rookie," had become a modest hit.