Sentence examples for but not modest from inspiring English sources
At Roseland Ballroom on Friday night the band was earthbound, mostly, but not modest, in a terrific, thrusting show that felt bigger than even this big room.
James Foley's reasons for becoming a reporter were modest but not small.
Mark Singer writes about the photojournalist James Foley's return to a war zone after escaping captivity in Libya — for reasons that were modest, but not small.
Of modest birth but not a modest man, Agrippa was disliked by the Roman aristocracy.
"I'm extremely humble about whatever gifts I may have, but I am not modest about the work I do.
These homes were not as ostentatious as the "cottages" built in Gilded Age Newport, but they were not modest either.
It was Leonard Bernstein, after all, who was attracted to the West Side Story project, because he believed "this could change the face of American musical theater". Such dreams are certainly not modest, but neither is the talent being recruited.
As noted in a separate communication with the reviewers, we believe 10 100-fold changes are not modest but quite large in the context of cellular physiology.
The pilot is small, but its architects' goals are not modest.
The likes of Bismarck, Witte and Salisbury were not modest men, but they were figures of far better skill and judgment.
