Sentence examples for but rather modest from inspiring English sources

His claims for art are insistent but rather modest.

The real Anderson, still dandyish at 45 but rather modest with it, finds it mildly funny.

Led by our intrepid author, Henry Kuehn, we find that most graves of architects are not monumental but rather modest, that many architects did not design their final resting places, and that a surprising number had their ashes scattered.

As men know, good shoes can be repaired and worn for a long time, and the Lagerfeld platforms, aside from being well made, were a classic sin trap style -- sexy and shapely but rather modest in height.

ICC(1 -values for latent class-level constructs show substantial differences in the teachers' instructional behaviours (≥1 -valuesrather modest diforrences in students' enjoyment latent between classes (8%).

After we learn that Khan had been trying to reach Diana on the phone the night she died – a poignant but rather modest factoid – Bashir tells us that while we'll never know what would have been said during that conversation, perhaps Khan would have said the words that would have brought her back home to his arms.

It has a fundamental critique of the failings of modern global capitalism but only rather modest proposals for dealing with them.

However, perhaps the most striking of all is that tumours of the brain and CNS have the highest AYLL of all 17 tumour sites, but a rather modest 1.5% of NCRI research spending.

The results for prostate cancer vary somewhat depending on whether one uses an exponential or a power-5 'link' in the model, but, in general, rather modest increases are projected in all age groups, subsequent to the very brisk increases observed following the introduction of PSA testing in the mid early 1990s.

Its current-account surplus did soar from 2005 onwards but until then was rather modest.

Next to these the River Ebro diversion looks rather modest, but to move a river up to 500 miles is ambitious by any measure.