Sentence examples for found him modest from inspiring English sources

It was at the time the tallest in the world, but The Sun's interviewer found him modest but boyishly enthusiastic.

So his assistant Coco Schwab found him a modest, first floor apartment in an art nouveau building in the leafy Berlin area of Schöneberg.

I had met Fiennes once before and found him charming, funny and modest.

But as they spoke, she found him to be remarkably modest about his work.

Smith had his defenders, to be sure, including Edward Arber, who edited an eleven-hundred-page compilation of his writings, in 1884, and who argued that "wherever we can check Smith, we find him both modest and accurate".

In his 1986 article, published in Physica, Professor Nunes went on to note that Professor Shull's "abilities as an experimental physicist are amplified and extended by his completely candid relations with coworkers" who "find him to be modest to a fault.

Sagan says he found it modest, beautifully written, and stirring.

I found a modest place of peeling plaster.

The few advertisers who tried the system found only modest benefits.

They found that "modest minimum wage adjustments lead to a small, or zero, effect on employment".

But his Web site has found a modest audience of race fans, gay and straight.