Sentence examples for both modesty and from inspiring English sources
Time and again, one is caught up short with an insight framed with both modesty and profoundity.
His style — a confident, spare attack that suggests both modesty and calculation — reflects his appreciation of Hall, Wes Montgomery, John McLaughlin, and Jimi Hendrix.
This is an aesthetic aimed squarely at a discerning and confident customer who would rather not parade any obvious fashion credentials and for whom both modesty and discretion are of prime importance.
In her books "The Magic of Dance" Fonteyn subjects both her own modesty and and grandeur that is its opposite through a comparison of herself with Isadora Duncan.
More come to us through poets and scholars willing to give themselves over to the art of translation, an art demanding both extreme modesty and extreme boldness.
Martin John Atallala, one of the inductees, co-invented nothing less than the first practical field-effect transistor, but when someone asked him what he had done, he said, both from modesty and from having a far greater interest in what he's up to these days, "I invented the PIN".
I tried to invent an outfit that would both maintain my modesty and reveal my caesarean scar, as I was curious to see what the 3D printer would make of that red line of which I have grown so fond.
He told Rimsky-Korsakov that he fully applauded what he was doing and admired both his artistic modesty and his strength of character.
Later, when Rimsky-Korsakov was under pressure from his fellow nationalists for his change in attitude on music education and his own intensive studies in music, Tchaikovsky continued to support him morally, telling him that he fully applauded what he was doing and admired both his artistic modesty and his strength of character.
When the other members of The Five became hostile toward Rimsky-Korsakov for his change of attitude, Tchaikovsky continued to support Rimsky-Korsakov morally, telling him that he fully applauded what Rimsky-Korsakov was doing, and admired both his artistic modesty and his strength of character.
Both have codes of modesty and urge abstention from smoking and drinking.
