Sentence examples for for being modest from inspiring English sources
The Virgin Mary was known for being modest and demure.
The stories Paula tells about how her children came into the world are the more engaging for being modest.
Isis succeeded in winning people's hearts in Mosul from the first day they liberated the city for being modest, unprejudiced and cooperative.
Do the Democrats seriously believe that they will "win points" with anyone for being "modest" in their approach, or reasonable in their rationale?
Early self-help books had titles such as Character, the Grandest Thing in the World, and featured introvert role models like Abraham Lincoln "who was praised for being modest and unassuming," and whom Ralph Waldo Emerson called, "A man who does not offend by superiority".
In light of those developments, what the new challenges are asking for is modest.
Spokesmen for both Takeda and Cephalon emphasize that the lunches they pay for are modest.
Probably the best anyone can hope for is modest success, never good enough at a school where winning is supposed to be a given.
Female appearance often comes to the forefront of this critique, and the participants in the video have been slammed for not being "modest" enough.
For the time being, Modest Physical CTT remains plausible.
If anything, Scaramanga is being modest, for he is not the same as Bond.
