Sentence examples for endearingly modest from inspiring English sources

Such endearingly modest speeches don't bode well for having the Shortlist show find a prime-time slot on network television anytime soon.

A lot of the more positive cliches about Miliband are true: in person, he is warm, endearingly modest, and possessed of enviable people skills.

Nicki Parrott and Rossano Sportiello, "People Will Say We're in Love" (Arbors) — Parrott is an exceptional bassist and an endearingly modest singer; Sportiello an adroit pianist with telepathic reflexes.

Considering the event is thought to be the birth of a globe-spanning, music-based culture almost half a century old, the ambitions that lay behind it were endearingly modest.

History is like some gigantic beast -- it simply wriggles its back and throws off whatever is on it". His comments were endearingly modest but impossible to take at face value.

Using little more than a vigorously strummed guitar and only the most discreet instrumental touches, the Artist has created a folk-funk gem whose attributes are endearingly modest.

It's a more modest work, suiting the director's endearingly diffident personality; an interview recorded this year is included, along with Burnett's two previous shorts.

It looks endearingly ridiculous.

Agar instead just grinned endearingly.

I found it endearingly different.

So far, so endearingly Gondryesque.