Sentence examples for have the modesty from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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".

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

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.

Many of these images have the sweetness and modesty of photographs, whose rise was still years off when most of these works were made.

Jim Murray, of the Los Angeles Times, remarked of Clay that "his public utterances have all the modesty of a German ultimatum to Poland but his public performances run more to Mussolini's Navy".

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.