Sentence examples for habitually modest from inspiring English sources

To mark this, the habitually modest virtuoso has been persuaded by Philips, with whom he has recorded for 35 years, to choose his favourites from his recordings.

Designers habitually copy nature.

All members habitually cheat.

Some people do it habitually.

She was habitually late.

Though willful and tough in his professional life (he is described as habitually wearing "an expression as if he had determined to drive his head through a brick wall"), Grant was in many ways a modest man.

Parents' wishes were habitually ignored.

They were, their questionnaires indicated, habitually touchy.

Dealers habitually blame libraries for thefts.

His good looks habitually elicited caresses, titbits.

He habitually sacrificed facts for effect.