Sentence examples for has the modesty from inspiring English sources

His technique, application, and temperament are all excellent and he has the modesty he will need to progress further".

When I clumsily explained that LAWITA was my favourite book, Newby even had the modesty to blush, as if no one had ever told him that before.

She had the modesty and the courage – not having had any classical training – to want to try to catch the big one i.e. Cleopatra, and she landed it magnificently.

If the wonder of the Garden bridge is in putting plants above water, nature over nature, shouldn't the architecture have the modesty to hold back, and not compete for attention?

Wadsworth did not think himself presumptuous when his eye told him that often the subject's next reflection was "And is this perhaps how the Almighty sees me, too?" Those who did not have the modesty to be struck by such doubts tended to comport themselves as the collector now did: to ask for adjustments and improvements, to tell the limner that his hand and eye were faulty.

"I hope that those vying to get their hands on the levers of power will have the modesty to remember that there are many people who feel under-represented," he said.

But he was also a futurist fascinated by experimental cities – a sort of mass-market Le Corbusier whose visions "might seem daft, but at least he had the modesty to contain them within the fantasy of entertainment rather than to unleash them on the world untested".

With a quiet that's meticulously transformed into moodiness and then fear-filled tension, the director Takashi Miike eases us in slowly; in the early part, the picture has the formal modesty of a work by Yasujiro Ozu, the Japanese director best known for his minimalist melodramas in which a vital element is missing from a family.

Its ski-area heritage is apparent in the demeanor of Berkshire East's coaches, who have the cheerful modesty of ace ski instructors who wouldn't dream of humiliating you.

Yet it also has the strongest tradition of modesty.

One of the cases that came to trial concerned a teacher who had "outraged the modesty" of a 10-year-old in his care.