Sentence examples for has become modest from inspiring English sources

Since a marginally quieter spell in the mid-90s, she has become – modest, concentrated, imbued always with a deep common sense and rarely less than thoroughly watchable – what she now readily describes as "a part of the family" in France.

He lives with his family in the treasurers office, and has become a modest collector of Union Club memorabilia.

The final report of the panel, the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, has become a modest best seller; the original print run of 25,000 paperback copies has sold out.

The growth philosophy was typical of the hype years, and I think that in the meantime, everybody has become more modest.

But the book, which features lyrics by Mos Def, Kanye West and Queen Latifah as well as poems by Maya Angelou and Gwendolyn Brooks, has become a modest hit.

The series, which chronicles a fanciful, not-all-that-alternate-from-reality version of the slacker paradise of Portland, Ore .(and which gave rise to hit viral videos like "Dream of the '90s" ), has become a modest hit for IFC.

As a result, the younger Mr. Rodriguez has become a modest commercial success and lives well, though not extravagantly, in a sparsely furnished old house belonging to his wife's parents, with two refrigerators, "one American, one Russian," he explains.

He and his wife, Lorri Davis, live in Salem, Mass., a city with long connections to magic and the dark arts that has become a modest mecca of New Age shops and meditation centers; he calls it "the only place on earth where I'm in the majority".

"Hip Hop Speaks to Children: A Celebration of Poetry With a Beat," which features lyrics by Mos Def, Kanye West and Queen Latifah, as well as poems by Maya Angelou and Gwendolyn Brooks, has become a modest hit, rising to No. 3 among picture books on The New York Times children's best-Seller list last Sunday.

From its home at the dead end of a dirt road lined on one side with an amber field of corn and on the other with the green expanse of ripening soybeans, the bridge has become a modest tourist draw to Mulvane, a town of about 6,000 a half-hour south of Wichita and almost equally distant from the Atlantic as it is from the Pacific.

Since then, furniture-scale technology, or smaller technology designed to be part of a tasteful furniture landscape, has become its own modest but growing category.