Sentence examples for enormous modesty from inspiring English sources

It's the sort of gift that requires enormous modesty on the part of the writer, who must shun pyrotechnics for something less flashy: an empathy so pitch-­perfect as to be nearly undetectable.

Stow was a writer of enormous sensitivity and modesty and when you're the contemporary of a colossus like White, with an entourage like White's, it's difficult for your writing to be visible.

The scale and global spread of their projects, and of their intellectual ambitions, is enormous, but they have a sort of modesty about what architects can actually achieve.

Their simplicity and modesty is a great contrast to what outsiders see as an enormous effort to remake a fabled piece of art.

Ghani insists that in order to protect his daughter's modesty, Aziz should examine her through a veil -- or, in this case, an enormous white sheet with a circular seven-inch hole, a homely contraption that proves more alluring than the sheerest chiffon.

I will not turn my back on a smaller population who faces enormous demoralization and abuse at the hands of an arrogant majority, all for the sake of feigned modesty and heterosexual lust.

The modesty.

Modesty, too.

Resist your natural modesty.

Modesty was his watchword.

Modesty was a habit.